Get to know Prof Karamat

Professor Karamat is a consultant and honorary professor in diabetes

and endocrinology at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS

Foundation Trust. He completed his specialist training as an academic

clinical lecturer from University of Birmingham and Health Education

West Midlands and has been a consultant in NHS since 2012.

 

His clinical areas of interest include role of technology in management of

Type 1 DM as well as antenatal and complex diabetes. He leads the Type

1 Diabetes service and is also joint lead for the regional islet

transplantation services with colleagues from Oxford. His expertise

involves wide breadth of all aspects of diabetes and endocrinology

including metabolic syndrome.

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He is actively involved in medical education and is the Training

Programme Director for Diabetes and Endocrinology for Health

Education West Midlands. He has been nominated as one of the national

Diabetes UK Clinical Champions. He is currently the national

recruitment lead for diabetes and endocrinology for UK and local RCP

regional Advisor for West Midlands.

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He has been involved in writing reports about health inequalities in

populations across Europe with Diabetes. In addition, he has published

extensively in the field of ethnicity and diabetes, diabetes and

cardiovascular disease and intensive insulin therapy as well as non-

alcoholic fatty liver disease.