Maudsley Lecture | From the Diabetes Clinic

Khalida Ismail is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Dept of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London, and Co-Director, Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity, King’s Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre. She leads the largest Diabetes, Psychiatry and Psychology research unit in the UK (https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/khalida.2.ismail.html). She specialises in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in diabetes; developing psychological treatments to support diabetes management and diabetes prevention; and exploring whether diabetes drugs can be repositioned to treat psychiatric disorders and vice versa. Her research has led to service innovations such as 3 Dimensions for Diabetes (3DFD) which received the BMJ Diabetes Team Award in 2014, and the Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating (T1DE) service which integrates psychiatric and diabetes care for people with type 1 diabetes and severe insulin omission secondary to fear of weight gain. Her work was showcased in a highly viewed BBC3 documentary ‘Diabulimia: The World's Most Dangerous Eating Disorder’ (youtube.com/watch?v=tSLjM6cZaTo).

Khalida also includes a link to a YouTube documentary on diabulimia which would be really helpful if the audience could watch. This is instead of suggesting a paper.

Diane Turner is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. I work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the T1DE Team (Type 1 diabetes and disordered eating) in Kings College Hospital, and work in private practice. I trained at The Tavistock Clinic and have worked with severe personality disorders at The Cassel Hospital, in eating disorders, and in Forensic Psychiatry. I set up and managed a community service in parental mental health.

Dr Marietta Stadler, in her current role as NIHR Clinician Scientist, Dr Marietta Stadler runs a 6 years research project to develop a complex intervention for people with type 1 diabetes and disordered eating (STEADY), together with a multidisciplinary team of diabetes and mental health care professionals. The STEADY project benefits from collaborations with the Diabetes Psychiatry and Psychology group (led by Prof Khalida Ismail), IDEO (Dr David Hopkins), the South London and the Maudsley Eating Disorders Unit (Prof Janet Treasure) and KCL Department of Adult Nursing (Prof Glenn Robert). Dr Marietta Stadler completed her Internal Medicine Specialist and Diabetologist training in Austria, conducted the national insulin pump audit and authored Austria’s therapy guidelines for insulin pumps. Dr Stadler’s research in the field of Type 1 Diabetes (focusing on the reversibility of pathophysiological features after pancreas transplantation, the epidemiology of late complications, diabetes technology, hypoglycaemia) resulted in a higher research degree (Habilitation, venia docendi). Dr Stadler joined the King’s College London (KCL) Diabetes Research Group as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes in 2013 and was awarded an NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2018. She also completed a UK Certificate of Completion of Training in Endocrinology and Diabetes.