Month: October 2022

This week we hosted our second Research Event on the #diabeteschat. We hosted and welcomed five amazing Research guest speakers to share a little bit about their research studies & projects. We were joined by: 🗣️ Dr Jill Charlton @JillCarlton1 🗣️ Professional Simon Heller @simonrheller 🗣️ Emma Innes @emmainnes3p 🗣️ Belinda Moore @DIPadvocate17 🗣️ Tracey […]
Nusrat Kausaris a Diabetes Dietitian and has worked as a dietitian in hospitals and is a volunteer for Diabetes UK for the children camps they run. He is also a researcher in Type 1 Diabetes.Dr Robert Andrewsis a Doctor based in Taunton and his aim, research and education stems in helping people with Type 1 […]
Michelle McKenna is mummy to two children and her youngest daughter has #T1D. Michelle is now a children’s author and blogger after leaving the corporate world after 12 years to pursue a writing career, inspired by her younger daughter who has T1D. Her debut children’s book is called ‘The Yellow Bills’ and Michelle writes blogs […]
For #HypoAwarenessWeek #diabeteschat spoke toDr Pratik Choudhary. Following the Guest Speaker chat we had a #diabeteschat community panel discussion about Hypos and Hypo Awareness. On the Panel was Tony, Chris, Flipper, Marc, Liz, Claire and Tom. We asked our community the following questions: – Do you have Hypo awareness? – What symptoms & at what […]
Professor Pratik Choudhary works at the University of Leicester; working within the Leicester Diabetes Research Centre. Pratik’s clinical and academic interests are around type 1 diabetes and technology; specifically within academic and clinical projects that integrate education, psychology and technology. Pratik has a particular interest in helping embed new technologies into clinical practice, to support […]