Professor Harry Keen CBE MD FRCP
Harry Keen, since 1990 Professor Emeritus at Guy’s Hospital Campus
of King’s College London School of Medicine, graduated from St Mary's
Hospital Medical School in 1948, trained and worked there in the 1950s
with Profs Pickering and Peart and in the Diabetic Dept at King's College
Hospital with Drs Lawrence and Oakley. After a Research Fellowship in 1960 at
NIH, Bethesda, he returned to Guy's Hospital Medical School (now part of King's
College) as physician, investigator and teacher, becoming Professor of Human Metabolism in 1971.
His clinical and scientific activities in diabetes and its complications, supported by many notable associates, have included major population studies and clinical trials, laboratory studies of tissue and isolated islet metabolism, origination of the category of IGT, first demonstration of microalbuminuria, discovery and development of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, pioneering of Diabetes Centres and leadership of the St Vincent Declaration. He has held office in British (BDA, Diabetes UK, DoH), European (EASD, Euro WHO and IDF) and international (WHO Geneva, IDF) organisations. He is Hon President, IDF, Vice President, Diabetes UK and President, NHS Support Federation and Hon Professor of Medicine, Warwick University Medical School since 2005.