Karim Meeran MD, FRCP, FRCPath

Professor Karim Meeran did his undergraduate and postgraduate training in London and then proceeded to an academic career at Imperial College. He is a Fellow both of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. He is the Training Programme Director for Metabolic Medicine and Endocrinology in London and sits on the Education Committee for the European Society of Endocrinology.

He has over 100 peer-reviewed articles and has published on Cushing’s syndrome, pituitary diseases, and the replacement of patients with pituitary and adrenal failure with glucocorticoids.

He is running an International study to compare low-dose (3mg) prednisolone once daily with hydrocortisone three times daily in the search for a replacement that will avoid the need for emergency treatment of hypoadrenalism.