Hnorary Guests
Solomon Tesfaye, MBChB, M.D., FRCP H-Index 50 on Google scholar Solomon Tesfaye is a Consultant Physician/Endocrinologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Honorary Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Sheffield. His research projects include the epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, central nervous system involvement and treatment of diabetic neuropathy and neuropathic pain. He has published a book, over 180 original articles in diabetic neuropathy including a landmark study in the NEJM. Professor Tesfaye was awarded the Prestigious Camillo Golgi Prize of the EASD in 2014 for major scientific contributions in Diabetic Neuropathy. He also received the Arnold Bloom Award of Diabetes UK in 2017 for innovative and patient centered diabetes care. Prof Tesfaye served as Chair the International Expert Group on Diabetic Neuropathy 2010/11; and of NEURODIAB (2006-9) which is the largest diabetic neuropathy scientific group in the world. He is currently a member of the Diabetes Complications Clinical Studies Group of Diabetes UK, a member of the Advisory Council of the Neuropathy Trust and is Secretary of International Insulin Foundation. He is also the Associate Editor of Experimental Diabetes Research, Frontiers in Endocrinology, European Endocrinology and Diabetes Management and previously of Diabetologia. Professor Tesfaye also serves as grant review panel member for the JDRF and NIDDK; and has been a member of 3 NICE guideline committees on neuropathic pain management. Finally, he has received several research grants including: 5 project grants from Diabetes UK, JDRF, NIH, EFSD, NIHR and a recent £2.97m HTA award to investigate the most effective treatment pathway for painful diabetic neuropathy.
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