Resident Faculty

Note: Most of the resident faculty members for the Cambridge Diabetes Seminar are not based in the MRC Epidemiology Unit, for a list of MRC Epidemiology Unit researchers please see our people pages.

• Pablo Aschner

Associate Professor of Endocrinology at Javeriana University and San Ignacio University Hospital, Bogotá, Colombia.

• Peter Bennett

Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH, USA.

• Juliana Chan

Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Ed Gregg

Chief of the Epidemiology and Statistics Branch, Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USA.

• William Herman

Director of the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research, USA.

• Ambady Ramachandran

Chairman of Dr. A. Ramachandran’s Diabetes Hospitals and President of India Diabetes Research Foundation, India.

• Eugene Sobngwi

Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Consultant Endocrinologist at Yaoundé Central Hospital, Cameroon.

• Jaakko Tuomilehto

Professor of Public Health at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Nigel Unwin

Professor of Population Health Sciences at the Chronic Disease Research Centre, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Barbados.

 

Visiting Speakers

• Amanda Ingham Adler

Chair of the multi-disciplinary Technology Appraisal Committee at the National Institute for Health Excellence (NICE) and consultant physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

• Søren Brage

Group Leader of the Physical Activity Epidemiology group at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

• Simon Griffin

Professor of General Practice at the University of Cambridge, Group Leader in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Honorary Professor of General Medical Practice at Aarhus University Denmark

• Claudia Langenberg

Programme Leader in Molecular Epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Clinical Academic Lecturer in Public Health Medicine (SpR) at University College London

• Ken Ong

Programme Leader in Growth and Development at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and clinical lead for childhood obesity at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

• Gojka Roglic

Medical officer in charge of the WHO diabetes programme within the Department of Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention

• Robert Scott

Senior Investigator Scientist and deputy group leader of the Aetiology of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders programme at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

• Martin White

Programme Leader for Dietary Behaviours and Public Health Interventions at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Organisers, with teaching contribution

• Nita Forouhi

Programme Leader of Nutritional Epidemiology, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

• Nick Wareham

Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, UK.