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Clinical Studies Advisory Group (CSAG)

Introduction

The Diabetes Research Network (DRN) provides a national infrastructure for large-scale research in diabetes. The Network currently involves eight Local Research Networks (LRNs) which coordinate the recruitment of patients, participants or clinical teams for the large-scale research studies 'adopted' by the Network. The network also has a Clinical Studies Advisory Group (CSAG) with the remit of overseeing the portfolio, working with the Department of Health and funders groups to set research strategy and addressing any gaps in the portfolio with input from members of the new research groups.

Membership of CSAG

The members of the CSAG.

Name
Professor Stephanie Amiel: Position
RD Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine: Address
Kings Denmark Hill Campus Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine Guys, Kings and St Thomas Bessemer Road London SE5 9PJ: Biography
Stephanie Amiel is the RD Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London, the first UK Chair in this field and is also Honorary Consultant Physician to King's College Hospital London, where she has particular responsibility for intensive insulin therapy and insulin pump services and the diabetic pregnancy services. Her academic interests include hypoglycaemia in diabetes; metabolic neuroimaging; brain insulin senstivity/resistance and the central responses to eating. She is also clinical director (diabetes) of the King's College Hospital Clinical Islet transplant programme, which is actively transplanting patients with Type 1 diabetes under the Edmonton protocol and is a member of the Diabetes UK Islet Transplant Consortium. She has published widely in these areas, and in addition to original research, publishes texts and teaching materials in her fields. She is Chairman of the National DAFNE Executive committee and also of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation UK's Medical Advisory Committee and serves on a number of research grant assessment panels and Advisory Boards to Industry

Name
Professor John Betteridge: Address
Division of Medicine Department of Medicine Sir Jules Thorn Institute The Middlesex Hospital Mortimer Street London W1N 8AA

Name
Professor Rudy Bilous: Position
Professor of Clinical Medicine: Address
Academic Centre James Cook University Hospital Marton Road Middlesbrough TS4 3BW: Biography
Currently Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Sub-Dean for undergraduate studies on Teesside for the University of Newcastle. Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology with a particular interest in diabetic nephropathy and diabetic pregnancy. Research in the area of glycaemic control and diabetic nephropathy and latterly in a greater understanding of the relationship between kidney structure and function in diabetic kidney disease. Present post is as Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Honorary Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at South Tees Acute Hospitals Trust. Main specialty interest is in clinical diabetes, particularly nephropathy and hypertension. Professor Rudy Bilous is the lead diabetologist for the medical obstetric service.

Name
Professor Andrew Boulton: Position
Professor of Medicine: Address
Manchester Royal Infirmary University Department of Medicine Oxford Road Manchester M13 9WL: Biography
Professor Boulton is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester, Consultant Physician at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and a visiting Professor at the University of Miami, FL, USA. Professor Boulton’ clinical research is mainly in the area of diabetic neuropathy and foot complications. He has received the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Roger Pecoraro Lectureship, the EASD Camillo Golgi prize and was the first recipient of the international award on diabetic foot research. He was the founding Chairman of the Diabetic Foot Study Group and was previously Chair of Postgraduate Education and then program chair for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). He is currently director of extra-European postgraduate education and training for the EASD, an associate editor for Diabetes Care and chair of the ADA foot wound interest group through 2007.

Name
Dr Felix Burden: Position
Community Consultant Diabetologist; Clinical Director of Long Term Conditions; Honorary Reader in Social Care and Medical Education, University of Leicester: Address
Heart of Birmingham tPCT Bartholomew House, 142 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9PA

Name
Professor David Dunger: Position
Professor of Paediatrics: Address
Department of Paediatrics University of Cambridge Box 116, Level 8 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QQ: Biography
David Dunger received training in Paediatric Endocrinology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Between 1986 and 2000 he was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, and later Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford. In 2000 he moved to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge to take up The Second Chair in Paediatrics. He has a particular interest in the pathophysiology of diabetes during childhood and adolescence and the genetic environmental interactions which determine size at birth and childhood growth.

Name
Professor Simon Heller: Position
Professor of Clinical Diabetes; Director of R&D, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust: Address
Section of Human Metabolisms Division of Clinical Sciences (North) Northern General Hospital Herries Road Sheffield S5 7AU: Biography
Simon Heller is Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield and Director of Research and Development and Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. He received his clinical diabetes training at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham and his research training at the University of Nottingham and Washington University, St Louis, USA. His current research interests include the physiological responses to hypoglycaemia and hypoglycaemia unawareness, pathophysiological mechanisms of sudden death in Type 1 diabetes and developing interventions to encourage more effective diabetes self-management. He was Editor in Chief of Diabetic Medicine between 2000 and 2004. He is currently a member of Diabetes UK Research Committee, JDRF Scientific Review Board and the MRC College of Experts.

Name
Dr David Langley: Position
Director of Research and Enterprise Development: Address
Dept of Research and Enterprise Development University of Bristol Senate House Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TH: Biography
David Langley is a patient representative on the group and has had type 2 diabetes for a number of years which is treated by tablets. He is Director of Research and Enterprise Development at the University of Bristol where he is responsible for research strategy, development and support. He has previously worked at Imperial College London, Medical Research Council and the National Institutes of Health, USA. He has a PhD in Pharmacology and extensive experience of research management, particularly of clinical trials. David is also a Director and Trustee of The British School of Osteopathy.

Name
Dr David R McCance: Address
Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast BT12 6BA

Name
Mary Perkins: Position
Research and Development Manager: Address
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust Research and Effectiveness Level 1 Old Building Bristol Royal Infirmary Marlborough Street Bristol BS2 8HW

Name
Dr Peter Scanlon: Position
National Co-ordinator: Address
Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme Department of Ophthalmology Cheltenham General Hospital Sandford Road Cheltenham GL53 7AN: Biography
Dr Peter Scanlon was appointed as National Co-ordinator for the Screening Programme for Sight-threatening Diabetic Retinopathy in England in July 2002. He works as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Gloucestershire Eye Unit and is Clinical Lead for the Gloucestershire Diabetic Eye Screening Service, which won the Modernisation Award in the NHS Health and Social Care Awards 2001, and the Ophthalmology Section of the Hospital Doctor of the Year Award 2002 and his work was acknowledged by a BMA publication in January 2006. He was awarded an MD thesis by the University of London in April 2005 and has published extensively in the field of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and Screening for DR. Dr Scanlon also works as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Oxford Eye Hospital, as Clinical Lead for the Oxfordshire Diabetic Eye Screening Service and is a Visiting Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.

Name
Professor Angela Shore: Position
Director of the Institute of Biomedical & Clinical Research: Address
The Peninsula Medical School Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Barrack Road Exeter EX2 5AX

Name
Professor Frank Sullivan: Position
NHS Tayside Chair of Research and Development in General Practice & Primary Care; Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care: Address
The Mackenzie Building TCGP Kirsty Semple Way Dundee DD2 4BF: Biography
His research involves the application of health informatics tools to the management of long term conditions, including diabetes, for more than twenty years. Profile.

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Clinical Studies Advisory Group (CSAG)

Introduction

Membership of CSAG