Skip to main content

Faculty

 

Dr Kevin Fernando FRCGP FRCP Edin

FAcadMEd MSc Diabetes, GP Partner North Berwick Health Centre, GP with Specialist Interest in CVRM & Medical Education, Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and Honorary Clinical Reader at the University of Dundee

Kevin is a part-time GP Partner working at North Berwick Health Centre, near Edinburgh. Kevin is also Scottish lead of the Primary Care Diabetes Society, Content Advisor for WebMD Medscape Global & UK and a co-founder of GoggleDocs.​

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 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​

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 Smeeta Sinha

Prof Smeeta Sinha is a Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS
Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester and a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Smeeta’s clinical interests are in CKD, multi-morbidity including diabetic kidney disease; she also leads the complex glomerulonephritis service at Salford Royal

 


 

Prof David Strain

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.