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Dr Kevin Fernando

FRCGP FRCP Edin. FAcadMEd MSc Diabetes
Portfolio GP with Extended Role in Diabetes, CVRM and Medical Edcation

Kevin is a portfolio GP (NHS & private) near Edinburgh. He is also Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee.  He is cofounder of CVRMUK (https://cvrmuk.com) which aims to empower HCPs to take a person-centred approach to managing CVRM conditions and drive a new model of specialty training and care delivery in the CVRM space.

Kevin is a regular keynote speaker at small and large-scale education events throughout the UK & Ireland and abroad.  His main specialist topics include all aspects of care for people living with type 2 diabetes & CVRM conditions and interpretation and management of commonly abnormal blood tests in primary care.

Kevin is an accomplished medical writer, and his articles distil key guidelines and consensus for primary care as well as summarise congress highlights and breaking research and its applicability to primary care. Additionally, Kevin has co-authored several articles published in peer-reviewed journals covering multiple aspects of type 2 diabetes & CVRM care in primary care.

Kevin is renowned for creating concise clinical aide memoirs (https://medscape-uk.co/Hacks) to make life easier for HCPs and ultimately to improve the lives of our patients.

Kevin is very active on social media (X handle @drkevinfernando) where he posts hot topics in type 2 diabetes & CVRM.  He recently has forayed into YouTube (@DrKevinFernando) with patient-facing video content.

Kevin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and holds both MRCGP and MRCP(UK) qualifications and has completed a Master’s degree in diabetes which he passed with distinction.  Kevin is also SCOPE certified in obesity management.

Kevin has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and also the Academy of Medical Educators for his work in diabetes and medical education.

 

 

 

Dr. Patrick Holmes

MB BS, MSc, DipTher, MRCGP​
GP Partner, St. George’s Medical Practice

Dr. Holmes has been a GP Partner at St. George’s Medical Practice, Darlington for 25 years. He is a local clinical commissioner for diabetes.

He is North-East & North Cumbria Diabetes Clinical Network Primary Care Lead, Primary Care Diabetes NIHR Research Lead for the North East and Associate Editor for Diabetic Medicine and member of the UKKA SGLT2i in Chronic Kidney Disease 20212 & 2023 writing group.

He is an active participant of GoggleDocs (www.goggledocs.co.uk), an innovative group of medical educators working in the SoMe space.

His clinical interests are adult type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease prevention and chronic kidney disease.

Twitter: @drpatrickholmes​

 

 

Professor David Strain

Associate Professor of Metabolic Health, Exeter
Prof David Strain is an Associate Professor of Cardiometabolic Health at the University of Exeter Medical School, an honorary consultant in medicine for the older adult, Head of the academic department for healthcare for older adults and the chair of the British Medical Association’s Board of Science. Clinically, he runs a community diabetes service for the older adult, works as an in-patient stroke consultant, and participates in the chronic fatigue service. Prior to this, Dr Strain studied at Liverpool University before completing his Doctorate in Medicine on ‘Ethnic differences in the vascular responses to insulin resistance’ at the International Centre for Cardiovascular Health, Imperial College, London.

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