Laila is a Diabetes Nurse Consultant as well as an Educator.  She studied European languages and Linguistics before entering into Nursing as a postgraduate.  Laila's youngest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of four and now successfully manages her condition with an insulin pump. Passionate to enable everyone with diabetes to get in control with their condition, she has acquired advanced clinical expertise and practical understanding about life with diabetes and transferred this into publications, such as: 'Insulin Injection Technique' (2003), 'Delayed Wound Healing in Diabetes' (2001), and 'Diabetes in South Asians Explained' (Tahseen A Chowdhury & Laila T King, Altman Publishers, 2006).  Laila's comprehensive self care compendium ‘My Life – My Diabetes 2009’ contains information on every aspect a person with diabetes or their family might want to know.  Laila has been instrumental in developing and delivering diabetes self-management education to patients and their families as well as healthcare professionals in the NHS.  She has now been for two years at London Medical, in addition to working for the Warwick University Medical School.  Training in the use of diabetes technology – pumps and continuous glucose monitors – has become one of the most beneficial tools that she wants to be on offer to all insulin using patients.  Laila has a motto: 'A reed cannot change its position in the field but it can learn to bend with the elements'.  This, she believes, fully applies to the person who develops diabetes - as yet incurable, however, manageable with empowering education and ongoing support.