OMC-UK Webinar - Obesity Care in Primary Care - Panel Discussion

Sarah Le Brocq has a unique skillset of living with obesity, a background in science, 16 years’ experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry, alongside the NHS and 6 years’ experience of being a trustee/Director of Obesity UK.

Sarah is currently founding a new Obesity Charity, which is aiming to be the equivalent of Diabetes UK in the obesity space, where she will be the CEO. ‘The new Obesity Charity aims to be the leading obesity charity for advancing obesity research, supporting and driving public education, a trusted resource for people living with obesity, healthcare professionals and policymakers and a support platform for people living with obesity.’

Sarah is known as a Thought Leader in the Obesity space, has a wide network of relationships with key obesity stakeholders. She is also well known in the media and is regularly called upon to give her thoughts and expertise around current Obesity affairs.
She sits of the strategic council for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Obesity, is a patient representative on the Advisory Group on Nutrition Weight & Health for the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), a stakeholder in NHSE’s new National Obesity Audit, a representative on the OHA Healthy Weight Strategy, lived experience group, a member of Obesity Policy Engagement Network UK (OPEN UK) and recently been appointed as a lay member on the NICE Weight Management Committee.
She has also co-authored a number of published academic papers in scientific journals.

Dr Dipesh C. Patel is a Consultant physician who is involved in the delivery of specialist clinical care in diabetes and general endocrinology and acute medicine at the Royal Free and Cleveland Clinic hospitals in London. His academic interests include cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes, he undertook work in cellular cholesterol transport leading to a PhD in 2010 at Imperial College. He has an interest in the use of newer diabetes therapies and clinical trials. He has undergraduate teaching lead and clinical trial responsibilities at the Royal Free campus and is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at UCL.

Dr Patel has had a number of specialist advisory roles for the NHS, Royal College of Physicians and is past chair of the UK National body of diabetes consultant and trainees- Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD).

Prof Tricia Tan (BSc MB ChB FRCP PhD FRCPath), Professor of Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology at Imperial College London, graduated from the University of St Andrews in and qualified in medicine from the University of Manchester. She trained in Diabetes and Endocrinology in London and studied with Prof Stephen Bloom for her doctoral research on pancreatic polypeptide. Her research has concentrated on characterizing the physiological effects of human gut hormones on appetite, energy expenditure and glucose homeostasis; the rational design of gut hormone analogues for therapy of obesity and diabetes, and early Phase clinical trials; the physiology of bariatric surgery; and developing assays for gut hormones and other neuropeptides. Her clinical interests lie in the treatment of obesity and diabetes, metabolic complications after bariatric surgery and the management of subfertility associated with obesity and obesity in pregnancy. She is the Director of the UK Supraregional Assay Service Endocrine Laboratory for Gut Hormones, and serves as the Clinical Lead, Biochemistry, and Director of Research for North West London Pathology Consortium.

Alex Miras is Professor of Endocrinology at Ulster University. His clinical and research work focus solely on Obesity and type 2 diabetes. He has contributed to the clinical management and research in Obesity over the last 14 years, through his work at a high throughput Obesity Centre. The specialist interests of his research Group are the mechanisms of action of interventions for obesity, focusing on pharmacotherapy, medical devices and obesity surgery.

Laurence is an Academic Clinical Fellow in General practice at Kings College London. He has a special interest in obesity medicine. He has experience working in tier 3 and 4 weight management services at Guys and St Thomas’ hospital and on clinical trials of obesity medications. His current research focus is regarding obesity epidemiology.