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Kristien Boelaert is a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham. She is an active researcher in the field of thyroid diseases. She has published over 200 papers (H-index 49) and received more than £10 million in research grant funding. Kristien was the recipient of the inaugural Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award from the Society for Endocrinology. She was the Clinical Lead for the NICE Guidelines on Thyroid Diseases and leads the National Consensus Statements on Management of Thyroid Cancer. She is a member of the RCOG Green-Top and the American Thyroid Association guideline panels on Thyroid Diseases in Pregnancy. Kristien is Senior Editor for the Journal of the Endocrine Society and Endocrine Connections. She serves on the Editorial Boards of several endocrine journals including Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Thyroid and Clinical Endocrinology. She is President of the British Thyroid Association, Chair of the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology and of the ATA Programme Organising Committee, and member of the SfE Council, the ETA Executive Committee and the RCP Specialist Certificate Examination Board.

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Peter Taylor PhD, FRCP is a Clinical Reader and Consultant Physician specializing in diabetes and endocrinology at Cardiff University and the University Hospital of Wales. He completed his PhD in thyroid epidemiology under Professor Colin Dayan and Professor Nicholas Timpson. His research has focused on the effects of common variation in thyroid status as well as thyroid hormone prescribing and thyroid screening in pregnancy, and he undertook the first epidemiological whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function and the first Mendelian Randomization study in thyroidology. His diabetes research includes how best to utilize low-risk immunotherapy in individuals at risk of or with new onset type-1 diabetes and which markers are best in determining beta cell function, including continuous glucose monitoring.

He has received awards at both national and international conferences for his work and has over 70 publications in journals, including The Lancet, Nature Medicine JAMA, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Reviews  Endocrinology and Nature Communications.