Geraldine Gallen
Kings College Hospital NHS Trust
Geraldine Gallen Type 1 Service Lead, Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse Kings College Hospital, London Geraldine Gallen is a Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse, currently working at Kings College Hospital, London. She has been in this position for over ten years and is the lead for the Type 1 diabetes service. Geraldine’s main clinical interest is in the management and education of all patients with Type 1 diabetes including those patients experiencing problematic hypoglycaemia, and along with the team at Kings offers a full range of treatments including structured education, DAFNE and DAFNE for pumpers, technology including insulin pump therapy, sensor augmented pump therapy, automated closed loop systems, continuous glucose monitoring and flash glucose monitoring. She and her team have over 800 patients on insulin pumps and over 300 patients funded on full time continuous glucose monitoring. Geraldine has also had training in Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and is interested in developing these skills further and supporting patients in their holistic management with their diabetes. Geraldine is excited by the developments of technology within type 1 diabetes management and can often be found talking to patients and healthcare professionals nationally and internationally educating how technology can be adapted into the patient pathway.
Amy Jolley
Salford Care Organisation
Amy Jolley, MSc, BSc, RD is Lead Diabetes Specialist Dietitian for the young adult and transition services at Salford Care Organisation. Amy also leads on the delivery of technology services by providing continued education for staff and providing specialist insulin pump/CGM clinics for patients as part of a MDT. Amy has weekly clinics with people using AID systems and those preparing to commence these systems. Amy has been in her role for 12 years and explored many areas of diabetes. She’s a DAFNE educator for MDI and pumps, completed MSc modules in insulin pump therapy, completed the NMP course level 7, and is currently working closely with clinical psychology on a project to prevent T1DE. This year Amy has arranged multiple in-person events for PWD to meet to encourage peer support set up and growth. Amy is enthusiastic to contribute to the education of diabetes technology on a national level.
Anne Marie Frohock
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Anne Marie Frohock BSc (Hons)RD is Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian with the Oxfordshire Children’s Diabetes team. She has a special interest in sports nutrition and has established the Oxford Specialist Sports Clinic for youngsters and adults with Type 1 Diabetes with Dr Alistair Lumb. Often seen cycling to home visits or out with her local club in her home town of Oxford, she is a keen exerciser and appreciates how important movement is for physical and mental wellbeing. Anne Marie has taught on both the EXTOD HCP conference and the EXTOD education patient programme.
Dr Alistair Lumb
OCDEM, Oxford University NHSFT
Dr Lumb is a Consultant in Diabetes and Acute General Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is clinical lead for the National Diabetes Inpatient Safety Audit, Chair of the Diabetes Technology Network-UK (DTN-UK) and a member of the ExTOD (Exercise in Type One Diabetes) Steering Committee. His clinical interests also include cystic fibrosis related diabetes and transplantation.
Dr Rose Stewart
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB)
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Adult Diabetes Psychology lead for BCUHB & NHS Wales.
Tara Lee
University of East Anglia and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Tara Lee is a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Having qualified in 2012, she completed postgraduate Core Medical Training and is currently training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the East of England. Tara is the current DRWF Sutherland-Earl Clinical Fellow and undertaking a PhD at UEA where her work focusses on type 1 diabetes in pregnancy and the use of diabetes technologies. As well as her own studies, she is a co-investigator on the AiDAPT (Automated insulin Delivery Amongst Pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes) and PROTECT (Pregnancy Outcomes using continuous glucose monitoring Technology in pregnant women with Type 2 diabetes) studies.
