Faculty

The full list of faculty members will be announced shortly. Confirmed members include: 

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.

• Dana Dabelea

Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics and the Director of the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC).

• William Herman

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

• Jaakko Tuomilehto

Chief Scientific Officer at Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait. Professor Emeritus of Public Health of the University of Helsinki, Finland.

 

Visiting Speakers

• Soren Brage

Programme leader for Physical Activity Epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

• Simon Griffin

Professor of General Practice at the University of Cambridge, Programme leader for Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

• Inês Barroso

Director of Research, Mechanisms of Metabolic Disease at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

• Oliver Mytton

Honorary Specialty Registrar and Academic Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine

• Ken Ong

Professor, honorary consultant paediatric endocrinologist at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Programme leader for Growth and Development at the MRC Epidemiology Unit

 

Guest Speakers

• Amanda Adler

Consultant Physician at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

• Rhys Williams

Emeritus Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, South Wales, UK.

 

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.