Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester and Honorary Consultant, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK

Melanie Davies is a clinician with over 25 years experience working as a diabetologist and physician and since 2006 is Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Leicester. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator, one of only a handful in diabetes in the UK, Director of a Clinical Trial Unit, Lead for Division 2 of the Clinical Research Network East Midlands and PI on a number of large global studies in the field of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Professor Davies is the global PI on the SCALE Obesity trial, a large multinational study investigating management of obesity with GLP-1 analogue.

disclosure, qualitative methods, South Asian, type 1 diabetes mellitus