 | Name: Joan Wilson
Overview: In 1954, Joan Wilson was appointed as a Diabetes Specialist Health Visitor by Dr. Joan Walker of Leicester Royal Infirmary, who believed that patients would benefit from being ‘taught how to live their lives at home`. As a fully trained nurse, she could claim to be one of the UK`s earliest Diabetic Specialist Nurses. She visited homes and gave patients her own home phone number; visited schools and workplaces; liaised with district nurses and GPs and provided patient education at the Infirmary clinics. She was involved in consultant-led clinics in smaller towns and in helping GPs to set up clinics.
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|  | Name: Harry Keen
Overview: From 1961, Harry Keen worked as physician, investigator and teacher at Guy`s Hospital Medical School, and was Professor of Human Metabolism from 1971 until1990. When interviewed in 2006, he was still working at Guy`s as Professor and Consultant Physician Emeritus. He has been Hon Professor of Medicine at Warwick University since 2005. His work has included major population studies and clinical trials, laboratory studies, origination of the category of IGT, first demonstration of microalbuminuria, continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, pioneering of Diabetes Centres and leadership of the St. Vincent Declaration. He has held office in many British and international organisations
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|  | Name: Jenny Shaw
Overview: Jenny Shaw began specialising in diabetes when she worked as a staff nurse at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford from 1986 to 1988. She has worked in Oxford ever since, first as a diabetes specialist nurse from 1988 to 1998, then as a research nurse for the past ten years. In recent years, she has been involved in studies concerning the development of new treatments for people with type 2 diabetes. She is interested in the diversity of patients` experiences: `it`s a challenge how to meet that with each patient, and adapt…to that individual, and listen to what they`re saying`.
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|  | Name: Rachel
Overview: In 1996, Rachel volunteered to work on a diabetes helpline, because she felt she`d learnt so much about diabetes from her family. Her older brother, Tom, and younger sister, Anna, were both diagnosed in their teens. Her parents were less traumatised by the second diagnosis and Rachel wonders if this explains the different ways in which her siblings have managed their diabetes. She has also observed how her brother has handled his own son`s diabetes; how a close friend coped with her child`s diagnosis; and how her mother-in-law struggled with Type 2 diabetes in her later years.
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 | Name: Michael Williams
Overview: Michael Williams worked in general medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary until 1968, when he was given three months leave to study diabetes with John Butterfield at Guy`s Hospital in London and John Malins at Birmingham General Hospital. He returned to Aberdeen to work with John Stowers as a ‘Consultant in General Medicine with Special Interest in Metabolic Diseases` until 1983 and then consultant in charge of the Infirmary`s diabetic clinic until he retired in 1994 and was succeeded by Ken McHardy. He has published several papers about his fellow Aberdonian, the co-discoverer of insulin, J.J.R. Mcleod.
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|  | Name: Ken McHardy
Overview: Dr. Ken McHardy was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, which counts among its former pupils J.J.R. Macleod, the co-discoverer of insulin, and R.D. Lawrence, co-founder of the British Diabetic Association. Since 1993, he has been a consultant in diabetes and general medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where he succeeded Michael Williams. He has been much involved in integrating primary and secondary diabetes care in the Grampian region and in providing professional education. He has taught for over 25 years in the Aberdeen University Medical School, and has worked in Postgraduate Medicine since 1993, becoming Associate Postgraduate Dean in 2002
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 | Name: Margaret McKiddie
Overview: Dr. Margaret McKiddie worked in Glasgow and Dundee before becoming a consultant at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in 1973. The hospital was too small to employ someone specialising solely in diabetes, but all patients with diabetes were referred to her and her official title was Consultant Physician with a Special Interest in Diabetes. She had to teach everything to the newly-diagnosed herself until a specialist diabetic nurse was appointed in 1989, who made a `huge amazing difference` to her working life. She retired in 1998 and in 2002 she became the British National Endurance Riding Champion.
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|  | Name: Alex Wright
Overview: Dr. Alex Wright was Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at Birmingham from 1973 to 1997, mostly at the General Hospital and latterly at the University Hospital, Selly Oak. He is now Honorary Senior Lecturer and works part-time at Manor Hospital, Walsall and Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham. He has also seen private patients on Saturday mornings for over 25 years. He has published on many aspects of diabetes and was part of the policy advisory group for the UK Prospective Diabetes Study, a 20-year trial which showed that the life-threatening complications of type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced by appropriate treatment.
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 | Name: Mary MacKinnon
Overview: Mary MacKinnon was one of the earliest practice nurses, from 1980-85, and attended one of the earliest training courses, in 1983, for nurses wishing to specialise in diabetes. Since then, she has worked as a Diabetes Research Sister and Diabetes Service Co-ordinator in Sheffield, and in the late 1990s helped set up Primary Care Diabetes UK. She has lectured on diabetes care at the University of Warwick and was Director of Education for Warwick Diabetes Care from 2000-1. She has published throughout her career and now works as a freelance Diabetes Education Consultant. She diagnosed her own diabetes in 1999.
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