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Simon Heller

Simon Heller DM, FRCP

Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, General and Internal Medicine
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

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Simon Heller (DM, FRCP) is Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Director of Research and Development and Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, UK. He trained at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham and undertook his research training at the University of Nottingham and Washington University, USA.

Professor Heller is currently a member of the Diabetes UK Research Strategy Group Management Group and a sub-panel chair of the UK NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research funding scheme. He is also the National Specialty Lead in Diabetes to the UK NIHR Clinical Research Network and an NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus.

His current research interests include the pathophysiological responses to hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia unawareness, the potential contribution and mechanisms of hypoglycemia to cardiovascular mortality, the use of insulin analogs, and other technologies to reduce hypoglycemia. He chaired the glucose control group of the ADVANCE trial and was the PI on the REPOSE trial measuring the effectiveness of insulin pumps. He also conducts research programs concerned with developing interventions (including the DAFNE intervention) to encourage more effective diabetes self-management. He chairs the International Hypoglycaemia Study Group, 15 professionals and academics with expertise in diabetic hypoglycemia who have recently been working with both ADA and EASD to extend the classification of hypoglycemia. He has authored over 300 original research articles and reviews. From 2000-2005 he was Editor of Diabetic Medicine.

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