This website is dedicated to bringing a free, non-promotional, editorially independent e-mail newsletter to a global audience about developments and news in diabetes, and is primarily aimed at health professionals.

Editorial Team

Professor Steve Bain is an academic clinician based at the University of Swansea in Wales. He leads a diabetes research team within the Institute of Life Sciences and has clinical sessions (diabetes & general medicine) in the recently created ABM University NHS Trust. As well as being Research and Development Director for the Trust he hosts an MSc Module in Diabetes for the Primary Care team. Steve’s research interests include the genetics of diabetes, in particular diabetic renal disease. As a former member of the UK Human Genetics Commission this expertise is well utilised; he leads the Commissions’ report on the National DNA Database Strategy Board and sits on NDNAD ethics group. Steve & Beth live on Gower with their three children, four cats, three hens and still 12 months on; the builders.

Dr Harry Brown is a general practitioner (GP) and GP trainer based in Leeds, UK, and has a major interest in medical education. He also writes the Netlines Blog in the British Medical Journal website, is medical editor of the journal, Geriatric Medicine and editor in chief of the medical portal www.univadis.co.uk

He also contributes to other professional publications and has written widely on health informatics and has an interest in the Internet and its use in medicine. He also writes medical articles for consumer publications, is married with three children and is a big football fan.

Dr Mark Freeman is a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals and is also Lead Clinician for Diabetes at Kirklees Primary care Trust in West Yorkshire. He has research interests involving the genetics of insulin resistance. Clinical interests include diabetes in pregnancy and diabetic renal disease, along with medical education.

He has written many articles for the medical press. He is married with two children, is an avid football fan, and, with effort, plays tennis and squash.

Jim Young is a freelance medical writer and had a regular monthly column in The Southern Medical Journal, USA. He is the curator of a bibliography for the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) and another for the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Jim is editor of DS Daily a drug and alcohol news service run by DrugScope and he is the manager of the news and articles library at FEAD. Jim is also a trained nurse. Such recreational time that he has is taken up by swimming in the sea, summer and winter! And updating his photo-blog of Swansea and Gower. Jim is married with two grown-up sons.

Susan Young carries out editorial research for Glycosmedia. She was previously employed as a nurse in the Oncology Department at Singleton Hospital, ABM University NHS Trust.

Sue is also assistant content editor for Daily Dose a leading drug and alcohol news portal that is published daily and is based in the UK.