Professor of Metabolic Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Leeds University and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. He is Head of the Clinical Population and Sciences Department at the University of Leeds, local R&D lead for Diabetes/Endocrinology and regional research delivery network lead for Diabetes.
He is Editor in Chief of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, and was a task force member of the European Society for Cardiology guidelines on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His clinical research is focused on optimising glycaemia in diabetes while his translational work is aiming to identify new therapeutic targets to reduce thrombosis risk in diabetes.
He has over 280 publications including original and review articles, book chapters and books (H index 69). His clinical practice is concentrated on young adults with diabetes as well as individuals with diabetes and advanced cardiovascular complications.