Dr. Dimitris Papamargaritis
University of Leicester, Leicester
Dimitris Papamargaritis is Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University of Leicester/ University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group with special interest in obesity and type 2 diabetes. He is the lead consultant for the young type 2 diabetes/ high BMI clinic in Kettering General Hospital. He is also a National Clinical Fellow of the European Association for the Study of Obesity, a trustee of the Association for the study of Obesity (lead for the Centres for Obesity Management) and a member of the academic committee of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists. His research interests include understanding the mechanisms that the novel obesity pharmacotherapies work and how to best combine lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical treatments for obesity and type 2 diabetes management.
