Professor Partha Kar is National Specialty Advisor, Diabetes; co-lead of the Getting it Right First Time (Diabetes) and Lead for the Medical Workforce Race Equality Standards with NHS England He is an International Medical Graduate (India) who works as a Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK since 2008- and won multiple awards at the BMJ, HSJ awards- apart from being recognised by the Kings Fund and NHS England for pioneering of the Super Six Diabetes Model which is recognised as one of the good examples of integrated care. He has helped to expand use of technology in Type 1 Diabetes- namely use of Flash Glucose/CGM and implementation of use of CGM in T1D pregnancy along with use of online digital self-management platforms- while recently leading on real world data collection on Closed Loops for subsequent NICE review. He has worked subsequently with NICE on updating relevant guidelines in non-invasive glucose monitoring access in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes He has also led on championing Language Matters in Diabetes care His other work has involved introduction of frailty into Quality Of Framework (QoF) treatment targets, Diabulimia pilot projects in the NHS; championing “Language Matters” and helping to create an overview of Diabetes care in Primary Care Networks. Recent work has focussed on transitional care models- as well as tackling inequalities in technology access based on deprivation & ethnicity He is one of the leading users of social media in diabetes care- and writes a monthly blog for the British Medical Journal. He has also been: *Co-creator of TAD (Talking About Diabetes) – TED talks from those with T1Diabetes *Co- creator of Type 1 Diabetes comic (Volume 1 to 4) *Co-creator of DEVICES (Virtual Reality educational modules in diabetes) Beyond diabetes, he has a role in tackling issues of racial disparity in the medical workforce as the Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard lead for NHS England- and author of the Action plan aimed at tackling this within medical staff He has also been recognised as one of the most influential figures from the ethnic minority population across healthcare by the Healthcare Service Journal in 2020,2021 & 2022