Shareen Forbes MBChB, PhD, FRCPE

Shareen Forbes graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh and did specialist registrar training in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Medicine at Imperial College, London. She was awarded a Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 1999 where she examined metabolic predictors of Type 2 diabetes at Imperial College London for her Ph.D. thesis. She was subsequently awarded the Diabetes UK Clinical Intermediate Fellowship in 2004 developing this work at Imperial College London and continuing the work at the University of Edinburgh from 2006.

Forbes is a Reader and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian and has been Lead Physician for the Islet Transplant Programme in Scotland since the inception of the programme in November 2010 and is a Principal Investigator in the UK Islet Transplant Consortium for Scotland. Shareen Forbes has expertise in medical statistics and developed and directed the Medical Statistics course for the Translational Medicine programme at the University of Edinburgh.

She is actively involved in the care of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and is a member of the Diabetes UK Council for Health Care Professionals and the Diabetes UK Clinical Studies Groups examining preventative strategies for Type 1 diabetes.

She is a Personal Tutor for medical student undergraduates and lectures undergraduates and post-graduates in the field of Endocrinology. She is an External Examiner for the University of Dundee on the PG Cert/Dip/MSc in Diabetes Care, Education and Management and is a member of the Society for Endocrinology Science Committee. Forbes was awarded a Visiting Fellowship to the world leading Edmonton Islet Transplantation Programme in 2014 and with Professor Peter Senior, Professor James Shapiro and colleagues in Edmonton helped develop a new assessment of islet graft function: the Beta-2 score.