• AMEND UK Medical Advisory Team (AMAT)

    AMEND takes its responsibility of supplying accurate information to patients very seriously. As such, the AMEND Medical Advisory Team are imperative to the production of our patient resources such as our website and patient information books. All our advisors give their time freely and AMEND is very grateful for their help and commitment.

    Note: AMEND is not allianced with any one particular medical facility and tries to ensure that its advisors are geographically spread in order to provide balanced opinion and information.

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  • Our Current Medical Advisory Team (As at March 2024)

  • Dr Caroline Brain

    (Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, University College and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London)

    Disclosures: none

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  • Professor Maralyn Druce

    (Professor of Endocrine Medicine and Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at Barts Health NHS Trust, London)

    Disclosures: conference support and advisory board fees from Ipsen and Novartis

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  • Professor Ashley Grossman

    (Professsor of Neuroendocrinology, University of Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism)

    Past President, Society for Endocrinology

    Past Chairman, UKINETS

    Disclosures: advisory board and lecture fees from Novartis, Ipsen, HRA Pharma, Pfizer and Shire Pharmaceuticals

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  • Dr Fiona Lalloo

    (Consultant Clinical Geneticist, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester)

    Disclosures: none

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  • Mr David Scott-Coombes

    (Consultant Endocrine Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff)

    Past President of the BAETS and ESES

    Disclosures: none

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  • Professor Rajesh Thakker

    (Professor of medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute, St Bartholomew’s Hospital; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism)

    Past President of the British Society for Endocrinology (2020)

    Disclosures:

    • Research income from: Medical Research Council programme grant; Wellcome Trust Investigator Award; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Translational Research
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    • Collaboration; NIHR Oxford Grant – BRC funding; Wellcome Trust Clinical training fellowships; EU ITN Marie Curie grant; Glaxo-SmithKline research grant; Kidney Research UK (KRUK) project grant; Novartis Research Grant; NPS Pharmaceuticals (USA); Marshall Smith Syndrome Research Fund
    • Chairman of AstraZeneca Stratified Medicine Panel
    • Honoraria/lecture and consultancy fees from Novartis, Lilly, AstraZeneca and Ipsen

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  • Dr Renuka Dias

    (Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust)

    Disclosures: tbc

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