Meet the experts 

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Dr Antonia Brooke is an Endocrinologist at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Her additional roles include being lead for Peer Review, a Council and Clinical Committee member of the Society for Endocrinology, a Trustee for the Pituitary Foundation and Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Endocrinology and Diabetes for the Royal College of Physicians. She completed her Endocrine training at St Bartholomew’s in 2009. She passionately believes in delivering patient-centred, high-quality endocrine care and training, and that care should be delivered to a high standard throughout the UK. 

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Dr Tom Crabtree is a Consultant Diabetologist recently appointed at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust, having completed SpR training in the East Midlands. Tom is a former chair of YDEF. Tom has completed a PhD, including a range of research projects, and is working with ABCD on its nationwide audit programmes with responsibility for the DIY APS, Closed-Loop and OmniPod audit. His other research interests include database work and epidemiological studies with real-world data. 

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Professor Partha Kar is the Type 1 Diabetes & Technology lead for NHS England and co-lead of the Getting it Right First Time (Diabetes) and Consultant, Diabetes & Endocrinology in Portsmouth

In his role with NHS England-He has led the expansion of technology in Type 1 Diabetes- namely universal use of Flash Glucose/CGM; CGM in T1D pregnancy along with use of online digital self-management platforms. He has also led on working with NICE ensuring wide access to Hybrid Closed Loops (HCL) this technology (via enabling real world data collection)- and at present is leading on a 5 year implementation plan on HCL.

His other work has involved introduction of frailty into Quality Of Framework (QoF) treatment targets, Diabulimia pilot projects in the NHS; championing “Language Matters” and helping to create an overview of Diabetes care in Primary Care Networks.
Recent work has included principles of Peer support for Type 1 Diabetes as well as a Decision Support Tool for those with Type 1 Diabetes

He is one of the leading users of social media in diabetes care- and writes a monthly blog for the British Medical Journal.

He has been:
Co-creator of TAD (Talking About Diabetes) – TED talks from those with T1Diabetes
*Co- creator of Type 1 Diabetes comic (Volume 1 to 5)
*Co-creator of DEVICES (Virtual Reality educational modules in diabetes)

He has been recognised as one of the most influential figures from the ethnic minority population across healthcare in the UK by the Healthcare Service Journal in 2020,2021, 2022 & 2023. He received an OBE for services to Diabetes care in 2021

His other roles involve publishing the first action plan to tackle racism in the medical workforce, being an Elected Councillor for the Royal College of Physicians and working with the GMC to tackle inequity of referrals based on ethnicity.