Consultants
Dr. Ralph Abraham is the Clinical Director of London Medical, which he founded as The London Diabetes & Lipid Centre in 1991. Starting his career as a biochemist at Oxford, he did a PhD in Biochemistry at Imperial College on insulin resistance in obese mice, a subject that is all too relevant in the management of diabetes today. He was trained at the Hammersmith Hospital and Kings College Hospital in gastroenterology and hepatology before specialising in Endocrinology and Diabetes at St Mary's Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, leaving the NHS in 1986. Dr. Abraham works in full time private practice with a successful and recognised expertise in diabetes, endocrinology, lipid disorders and obesity management. He also runs the SmartWeight programme for obesity. http://smartweight.co.uk |  |
Dr Stephanie Baldeweg is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University College London Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at UCL. She graduated from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1990 and undertook her Specialist Training in London. She was awarded the MD for the thesis on “Insulin resistance and endothelial function in health and type 2 diabetes”. Dr Baldeweg is interested in all aspects of diabetes and endocrinology. These include thyroid, reproductive and pituitary disorders as well as osteoporosis, weight management and cardiovascular risk reduction. She also has an interest in pregnancy preparation for women with diabetes and endocrine disease. Dr Baldeweg is the Training Program Director for the North Thames Rotation in Diabetes and Endocrinology. She regularly lectures at national and international meetings as well as Patient days for Support groups such as Diabetes UK and the Pituitary Foundation. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in March 2009 (FRCPI) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in June 2009 (FRCP). |  |
Professor Galton is a consultant physician and Emeritus Professor at St. Bartholomew’s and London Hospital Medical College. He was also physician-in-charge of medical ophthalmology at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital. He has doctorates in medicine (M.D.) and science (D.Sc.) from London University. He has been chairman of Clinical Science, chairman of HEART UK., chairman of Clinical Lipids of the Royal Society of Medicine, chairman of the Lipoprotein Section of the Association for the Study of Diabetes and Grants Committee Member of Diabetes UK. He is a Fellow of two Royal Colleges (Physicians, London; and Ophthalmology, London). He has published more than 250 peer reviewed research papers and his recent books include: Hyperlipidaemia in Practice; Lipids and Cardiovascular Disease; Diabetes Mellitus: Aetiology and Metabolic Aspects and Dyslipidaemia. |  |
Professor Julian Halcox is a Consultant Cardiologist at University College London Hospitals and Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at University College London. He practices as a general cardiologist specialising in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease. Professor Halcox is an expert in the management of high blood pressure, cholesterol disorders and the assessment and treatment of people with a family history of heart attack and other vascular disease. He combines his clinical work with a productive program of research into mechanisms responsible for the development of coronary artery disease. |
Dr Catherine Lunken MA BM BCh FRCP specialises in seeing patients with diabetes and lipid disorders at University College London Hospitals. After qualifying at the Middlesex Hospital and Oxford University, she trained extensively in general medicine and cardiology at University College Hospital, The National Heart Hospital and the London Hospital before concentrating on diabetes. She is currently the Clinical Lead for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. (FH) at the Hospital and also for the medical students attached to the Diabetes and Endocrinology department. She has an interest in the training of future specialists and sits on the relevant committees at the Royal College of Physicians and the British Medical Association. Her research interests centre around abnormal liver function in patients with insulin resistance, premature coronary artery disease and screening for FH. She is a member of The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and of Diabetes UK. |
