Professor Thomas Hugh Jones
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley and Sheffield
Hugh is Honorary Professor of Andrology in the Department of Human Metabolism the University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, UK and Hon. Consultant Endocrinologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He is a clinical and laboratory researcher into the role of testosterone in the pathogenesis and treatment of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He has also conducted research on the hypothalamic and paracrine control of anterior pituitary hormone secretion, among others. 'Professor Jones is President of the Androgen Society (International). He is also on the European Association of Urology guideline committee for Sexual and Reproductive Health and also the British Society for Sexual Medicine guideline committee for the Management of Testosterone Deficiency. He was also on the International Consultation on Men' Health and Infertility. He was the first to demonstrate the following (1) the high prevalence of symptomatic testosterone deficiency in men with type 2 diabetes, (2) testosterone replacement improves insulin resistance, (3) reduces mortality in hypogonadal men with type 2 diabetes and (4) recently shown testosterone replacement has benefits on quality of life in these men.
