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Dr. Meera Ladwa (MRCP, PhD) works as a specialist in diabetic medicine for Barts Health NHS Trust and leads the Transition and Young Adult Diabetes service at Newham University Hospital, London, UK. She graduated from Imperial College London School of Medicine in 2008 and was awarded her doctorate in diabetes and metabolism by King’s College London in 2021, where she studied beta cell function in black African men. In 2022, she was appointed as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London.  Her clinical and research interests include diabetes in young adults, diabetes in pregnancy and diabetes in ethnic minorities. 

Dr Emma Wilmot is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Diabetologist at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. Dr Wilmot has a specialist interest in Type 1 diabetes, diabetes technology and young adults with diabetes.

She is the founder of the ABCD Diabetes Technology Network UK. As chair she previously led the delivery of educational events for multidisciplinary diabetes teams and the development of a suite of national diabetes technology ‘best practice’ guides, in addition to online modules for people living with diabetes. Emma is an elected Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) committee member and DAFNE structured education executive board member. She is a member of the National Diabetes Audit Expert Reference Group and has also been involved in the #languagematters movement.

She was awarded the University of Leicester medal for excellent PhD performance in 2013 for her PhD “Type 2 diabetes in younger adults” and was appointed as an Honorary (consultant) Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham in 2021. She has an ongoing interest in diabetes research and is a principal investigator on a range of diabetes trials.