Claire Meek is Professor of Chemical Pathology and Diabetes in Pregnancy at Leicester Diabetes Centre. She runs the diabetes in pregnancy service at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, supporting a large, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse cohort of pregnant women. She runs observational and interventional studies to improve clinical outcomes for pregnant women and their children.
Prof Meek started her research career at the University of Cambridge, studying nutritional interventions to improve glucose levels and promote weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes. Postdoctorally, she contributed to the CONCEPTT trial, assessing real time continuous glucose monitoring in type 1 diabetes in pregnancy, translated into clinical care internationally. In 2018, she received a Diabetes UK intermediate clinical fellowship to run a RCT of a dietary intervention in gestational diabetes (DiGest trial; recently finished). She also received a Future Leaders’ Award from the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (2019) in association with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, assessing progression to type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes.
Prof Meek has received several other national and international awards including from the American Diabetes Association, the European Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group, the Association of Physicians (UK) and the British Medical Foundation.