Speakers

Qualified in medicine from Oxford University and St. Thomas' Hospital and trained in diabetes centres at Leicester, Poole, St Thomas', Exeter and Bristol. From 1980 - 2012 was consultant physician with a special interest in diabetes at Northampton General Hospital. Now working as honorary lecturer at Leicester University. Special interests in diabetes are education, communication and patient empowerment, with particular emphasis on diabetes in young adults and older people. Since 1986 have organised an annual counselling and empowerment course for health care professionals working in diabetes.