Rachel Batterham MD, PhD

Rachel Batterham is professor of obesity, diabetes and endocrinology. She established and leads the UCLH Bariatric Centre for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery. She is internationally renown for her expertise in the clinical management of people with obesity and obesity-related diseases and for her obesity research. She is the obesity theme lead for the UCLH/UCL National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Center and she was holds a highly prestigious NIHR Research Professorship (2016-2021).

Rachel plays a key national and international role in determining best care for people with obesity and related disorders and is a trustee for the Association for Study of Obesity, a member of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society council, a member of member of the Royal College of Physician Advisory Group on Health and Weight and a clinical expert for the National Institute for Health Research.

She studied at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School Imperial College and qualified with distinction in 1989. She then specialised in diabetes and endocrinology and developed a specialist interest in obesity. She obtained an MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and then a PhD in body weight regulation. She was appointed as a consultant at UCLH in 2005 and she set up the UCLH obesity services in 2007.