 | 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: 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: Ali Zafar
Overview: Ali Zafar qualified in India in 1967 and came to England in 1970. He began to specialise in diabetes when he worked as a registrar at East Birmingham hospital (now Heartlands) from 1972 to 1975. He became a GP in an inner-city practice in 1975, but continued to work at the hospital diabetic clinic, first as a clinical assistant and then as a hospital practitioner, until he retired in 2006. Both the hospital and his surgery were in areas with a high percentage of Asian people. He first produced an Asian diet sheet in the early 1970s.
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|  | Name: Gillian McGuinness
Overview: Gillian McGuinness studied human physiology at Manchester University before doing an eighteen-month Diploma in Dietetics at Hollings College in 1977, when there was a ‘dire shortage of dietitians`. She worked in NHS and private hospitals in Manchester and Bristol and then at Birmingham Children`s Hospital from 1990. She remembers that in the late 1970s, children with diabetes didn`t always grow very well or get full employment opportunities or take for granted that they would have children, whereas now she expects them to live long healthy lives and be able to achieve all the same things as people without diabetes.
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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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|  | Name: Philip Farrant
Overview: Dr. Philip Farrant was a general physician at West Hill Hospital in Dartford from 1963 to 1988. He was never officially designated as having a ‘special interest in diabetes`, but he ran the diabetic clinics and published on diabetes. In 1976, he encouraged a patient to found a local branch of the British Diabetic Association, which raised money for equipment and offered support to patients. In 1972, he established a postgraduate medical centre at Joyce Green Hospital, which moved to the new Darent Valley Hospital in 2000 and was re-named the Philip Farrant Education Centre.
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 | Name: Richard Gee
Overview: Richard Gee has been a G.P. in Lower Gornal, on the edge of the Black Country, since 1972. During the 1980s, a diabetes consultant from Wordsley Hospital helped his practice, and other training practices in the area, to set up mini-clinics and make links with a Diabetes Resource Centre at the hospital. In Dr. Gee`s view, the Payment by Results system, introduced in 2004, encouraged hospitals to reverse the flow of patients from hospital to GP care - but in his area many patients have preferred to stay with their` GPs, supported by a strong diabetes community nursing team.
There is interview with another Black Country GP, from one generation earlier, Dr. Joe Needoff.
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|  | Name: Patrick Grogan
Overview: Patrick Grogan was treated at King`s College Hospital by R.D. Lawrence (co-founder of the British Diabetes Association, now Diabetes UK) and he remembers Lawrence commenting on the amount of carbohydrate at a hospital Christmas party. He has always kept to a healthy diet, has had lots of exercise as a machine-tool fitter and maintenance worker, and has had no diabetic complications. He`s a member of NHS Concern and the West Midlands Pensioners Convention and says that taking an interest in improving society is what keeps him going.
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 | Name: Allan Jones
Overview: Allan Jones` father was a miner with six children. They had little money but had to pay for insulin and equipment until the National Health Service was created in 1948. They couldn`t afford cotton wool and re-used needles until they were blunt. When Allan was 15 he got a job as a messenger on the railways but had to pass a medical before being promoted. He feared he would lose his job if his diabetes was discovered, so took with him a sample of his brother`s urine! He passed the medical and worked happily on the railways for 30 years.
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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: Irene Bainbridge
Overview: Irene Bainbridge trained in medicine at Oxford University from 1953 to 1960 and became a full-time mother from 1961 to 1974. When she returned to work, she found much had changed, especially in diabetes care. After further training, she became a GP from 1978 to 2000 in a rural dispensing practice in Essex, twenty miles from the nearest hospital. The practice appointed a Diabetes Specialist Nurse in the late 1980s. At the time of interview, she was still doing sessional work in general practice and was editorial adviser to the journal, ‘Dispensing Doctor`.
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|  | Name: David Matthews
Overview: David Matthews is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at Oxford and Medical Tutor at Harris Manchester College. His research interests include mathematical modelling of insulin resistance, homeostatic model assessment of beta-cell function and insulin resistance, therapeutic agents in type 2, and the global diabetes epidemic. In 2010 he retired from clinical practice and from Chairmanship of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism. He continues to be Director of the Oxford Health Alliance and Co-Director for the UK Diabetes Research Network. He is now Director of the Tseu Institute at Harris Manchester College. He was Principal Investigator for Diabetes Stories
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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: Barbara Boucher
Overview: In 1970, Barbara Boucher became Consultant Physician at The London Hospital, at a time when female consultants were rare, and she worked there until 1998. She was also Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, from 1970 to 1999. She has undertaken research on many aspects of diabetes and on improving diabetes care, especially for pregnant women. Through her work in the East End of London, she has raised awareness about causes of diabetes amongst Asian people in Britain. She has found links between vitamin D deficiency and Type 2 diabetes, and identified Betel-nut chewing as a risk factor.
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 | Name: Peter Swift
Overview: Dr Peter Swift was Consultant Paediatrician at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1979 to 2006. He has published widely on childhood diabetes and produced guidelines for the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes. In a national survey of paediatric diabetes services in 1988, he found many children were not being seen in specialist clinics; few clinics were using HbA1c tests, and they lacked specialist nurses, dietitians and psychological help. By 2004, almost all children were seen in specialist clinics, with more specialist nurses. He still thinks more specialist nurses and dietitians are needed and many more mental health workers.
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|  | Name: Olive
Overview: Olive married Gordon in 1956 and the following year he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. He received good treatment at Kings College Hospital in London from R.D. Lawrence, who founded the British Diabetic Association, but with some younger doctors, he felt he was `imparting more information to them than they were giving back to him.` Gordon had several hypos and their daughter said she hated hearing him groan in the night, but Olive thinks that her children became more caring people as a result of their father`s diabetes and that the whole family benefited from having a healthy diet.
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 | Name: Pam Dyson
Overview: Pam Dyson has been involved with the nutritional management of diabetes and obesity for 25 years. She began her working life with the Medical Research Council at the Dunn Nutrition Unit in Cambridge and since then has practised as a community dietician, diabetes specialist dietician for both in and out-patients and has been closely involved with clinical research. Since 2004, she has been employed by Oxford University as a diabetes research dietician. Her main interests are in the delivery of diabetes dietary education, behavioural aspects of lifestyle change and weight management.
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