Carlo L. Acerini BSc, MBChB, DCH, MA, MD, FHEA, FRCP, FRCPCH

Dr Carlo Acerini is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Consultant Paediatrician (Endocrinology & Diabetes) at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. As an undergraduate he read Pharmacology and then Medicine at the University of Dundee before completing his postgraduate training in paediatrics in the West of Scotland and as a clinical research fellow in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Dr Acerini is actively involved in clinical research in the areas of paediatric and adolescent diabetes and endocrinology, including studies on the development of new therapeutic approaches for the management of young people with Type 1 diabetes, such as the artificial pancreas research programme in Cambridge.

His roles within paediatric diabetes have included the ISPAD Advisory council (2005-07 & 2010-12), as a co-editor of the 2014 ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines, and as an Associate Editor for the journal Diabetic Medicine. He was also recent past Secretary to the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (2011-2016).