Email: Eastern Region Diabetes Local Research Network
The Team
The Eastern Diabetes Local Research Network was established in 2005. We’re hosted by the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and are based within the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge.
Our Executive Board oversees our work and meets to discuss our progress and future plans for the local research network. This group works closely with the Clinical Lead and the Network Manager to provide support in operational decision making and advising on the development of the local NIHR diabetes portfolio.
We also have a core DRN team who help support the network across the region and a clinical team of diabetes research nurses.
You can find out more about us in the links below.
- Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Executive Board
- Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Core Team
- Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Clinical and Research Team
Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Executive Board
Prof Nick Wareham, Clinical Lead Director Nick Wareham is the Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science. His principal research interests are the causes and prevention of obesity and diabetes. Nick qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London, and trained in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. He then worked at Harvard University, Boston, USA before joining the University of Cambridge where he became a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical Science. He is now a Professor and an Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Prof Mike Sampson, Deputy Lead for Norfolk Professor Mike Sampson is a Consultant Diabetologist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich.
Mike trained at UCL and Kings College in London.
Dr Gerry Rayman, Deputy Lead for Suffolk Dr Gerry Rayman is Consultant Physician and Head of Service at the Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, and the Diabetic Foot clinic, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.
Gerry qualified from the Middlesex Hospital University of London and trained in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.
Dr Amanda Adler, Deputy Lead for Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire Amanda Adler was born and raised in Santa Monica, California. She is a consultant physician and DRN clinical lead for diabetes at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Amanda is also a clinical epidemiologist in the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Cambridge and Research Associate at the Diabetes Trials Unit, Oxford.
Amanda originally studied economics at the University of California before studying medicine (MD). She then specialized in internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her early research was in the epidemiology of diabetes among Eskimos and Athabaskan Indians in the Alaskan arctic.
Prof David Dunger, Associate Clinical Lead for Paediatrics 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.
Dr Simon Griffin, Associate Clinical Lead for Primary Care Simon is Assistant Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit and an Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust. He is also a general practitioner (GP) at the Lensfield Medical Practice in Cambridge
Simon qualified from the London Hospital Medical College and trained in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Southampton and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Core Team
| Name | Sandra Mulrennan |
| Position | Network Manager |
| Sandra.Mulrennan@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Name | Garry King |
| Position | Data Manager |
| garry.king@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Name | Goher Ayman |
| Position | Research Facilitator |
| Goher.Ayman@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
| Name | Nicola West |
| Position | EDLRN Communications Officer |
| nicola.west@addenbrookes.nhs.uk |
| Name | Grant Harper |
| Position | EDLRN Administrator |
| grant.harper@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk |
Eastern Region Diabetes LRN Clinical and Research Team
| Name | Title | Location |
| Karen Lewis | Senior Diabetes Research Nurse | Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust |
| Jane Jiao | Diabetes Research Nurse | Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust |
| Jon Hassler-Hurst | Senior Diabetes Research Nurse – Paediatrics | Diabetes and Endocrine Centre The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust |
| Esther Fakeye | Diabetes Research Nurse | Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital |
| Elizabeth White | Diabetes Research Nurse | North Cambridgeshire Hospital, Wisbech |
| Susan Emms | Diabetes Research Nurse | Princess of Wales Hospital Ely |
| Tracey Gray | Diabetes Research Nurse | NHS Clinical Research & Trials Unit Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital |
| Kim Cox | Senior Diabetes Research Nurse | Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital |
| Louise Jones | Senior Diabetes Research Nurse | NHS Clinical Research & Trials Unit, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital |
| Claire Brennan | Diabetes Research Nurse | Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital |
| Frank Grinnell | Senior Diabetes Research Nurse | James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth |
| Helen Atkins | Research Facilitator | The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust |
| Suzanne Morgan | Research Support Officer | NHS Clinical Research & Trials Unit University of East Anglia |