ABCD Inspire Podcast Series - Professor Parth Narendran
In our second ABCD Inspire Podcast, our host, Dr Petra Hanson, is joined by Professor Parth Narendran, who leads the Diabetes Research Unit and the Type 1 Diabetes clinical service at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
Parth shares with us his updates on autoimmunity in diabetes, his current research projects, and when asked by Petra why he chose to get into research, Parth says "research for me has been a really exciting part of my life and has given me opportunities I wouldn't have had in other ways" - a conversation not be missed!
Listen below on the ABCD website - and coming soon to your preferred podcast app.
Speakers
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Dr. Petra Hanson
Dr Hanson is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Warwick Medical School. She works clinically at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. She has completed her PhD on a subject of type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism in 2021.
Her main research interests are in metabolic medicine, type 2 diabetes, obesity, digital health tools, mindfulness and its clinical application for both patients and health care staff. Dr Hanson currently runs two pilot studies assessing the clinical application of mindfulness among people with type 2 diabetes and heart failure. She leads on an innovation digital health project called Gro Health W8Buddy at obesity service at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. In 2021 she completed a Topol Digital Fellowship, working on application of digital tools in obesity services. In 2022 she was selected for NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme cohort 6.
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Professor Parth Narendran
Professor of Diabetes Medicine
Parth's research interest focusses on understanding the autoimmune destruction of insulin secreting beta cells that lead to type 1 diabetes and exploring how this process can be modulated. He is part of a national effort to explore the feasibility and acceptability of early surveillance programmes for pre-type 1 diabetes and is also exploring which therapies are best tested in the prevention arena.
He leads the T1D clinical service at the QE Hospital in Birmingham, supporting the islet and pancreas transplant, DAFNE, transition and exercise services.
