Interview: Importance of getting the diabetes message out there

Abstract

Anthony Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at The University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK) and Consultant Physician to one of the biggest diabetes/endocrine units in the UK at the Heart of England National Health Service Foundation Trust (Birmingham, UK). He has major research interests in the genetics of diabetes and its microangiopathic complications, etiology of diabetes vascular disease, pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes, new drugs for diabetes and its vascular complications, and health service-related issues, including provision of diabetes care in the south Asian population. His main clinical interest is in cardiovascular disease in association with diabetes and the use of new therapies for diabetes and its complications. He has published over 550 original research papers and has edited major text books of diabetes, as well as contributing to the Textbook of Diabetes, International Textbook on Diabetes, and Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. He has edited several educati...