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Dr. Peter Taylor

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University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

Peter N Taylor PhD, FRCP is a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician specializing in diabetes and endocrinology at Cardiff University and the University Hospital of Wales. He completed his PhD in thyroid epidemiology under Professor Colin Dayan and Professor Nicholas Timpson. His research has focused on the effects of common variation in thyroid status as well as thyroid hormone prescribing and thyroid screening in pregnancy and undertook the first epidemiological whole-genome sequence based analysis of thyroid function and the first Mendelian Randomization study in thyroidology. His diabetes research includes how best to utilize low-risk immunotherapy in individuals at risk of or with new onset type-1 diabetes and which markers are best in in determining beta cell function including continuous glucose monitoring.

He has received awards at both national and international conferences for his work and has over 60 publications in journals including JAMA, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Reviews Endocrinology and Nature Communications.