Summit 2020:
Turning Diabetes data into better health
Watch the 2020 Diabetes Summit - simply press play to hear the important analysis, policy and debate presented at our 2020 webinar event.
2020 Speaker Biographies
Professor David Simmons
MA (Cantab) MB BS FRCP FRACP MD (Cantab)
David is Professor of Medicine, Macarthur Clinical School, Western Sydney University; Director, Endocrinology Department, Campbelltown Hospital; Director, South Western Sydney Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism Translational Research Unit (DOMTRU); Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor, University of Örebro, Sweden.
He is a previous President of the Australasian Diabetes In Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) and in 2020, the first New Zealander to be awarded the American Diabetes Association Norbert Freinkel award for his Diabetes in Pregnancy research. In 2011 he was awarded the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Priscilla Kincaid-Smith award for his work relating to diabetes in the community. He has led several trials/studies in diabetes in pregnancy, diabetes prevention, diabetes management and diabetes epidemiology. He has over 300 publications including the first book on Integrated Diabetes Care.
Dr Janak de Zoysa
BHB 1992 (Auckland); MB ChB 1995 (Auckland); MRCP 1999 (UK); FRACP 2002; FRCP 2012 (London); PostGradDip in Clinical Education 2013 (Auckland), FASN 2016
Janak de Zoysa is a graduate of the University of Auckland (1995) and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2002), Royal college of Physicians of London (2012). He is a Nephrologist at Waitematā DHB and is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. His interests are in Vasculitis, Dialysis, and Medical Education.
He is married with four children, is a cricket (tragic) and plays club tennis.
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