Obesity Metabolic Syndrome - woolly mammoths and diabetes
Following his presentation at our 2024 Winter Symposium, Professor Ketan Dhatariya discusses Obesity Metabolic Syndrome and diabetes in an engaging and wide-ranging conversation.
In this podcast Ketan reflects on his career path, on the possible false economy of limiting access to GLP-1 agonists, the need for a non-judgmental view of patients presenting with obesity, how an evolutionary viewpoint can usefully inform modern medicine, and just how tasty the woolly mammoths of Red Lion Square were.
[Recorded January 2025]
*Please note that the prevalence of inpatient diabetes is 25-30%, not 10-11% as quoted in the recording
Related information:
- Perioperative Care of People with Diabetes Undergoing Surgery (The Centre for Perioperative Care)
- Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity, The Lancet
- Anaesthesia for the obese patient, BJA Education
- For more on this topic, listen to Ketan's academic collaborator Kariem El-Boghdadly discussing GLP-1 agonists in our recent podcast interview with him.
Professor Ketan Dhatariya graduated from the University of London in 1991 and did his diabetes and endocrinology training in and around London. He was also a part time General Practitioner and took some time out of his training to spend a year doing intensive care medicine and anaesthetics. After finishing his training in 2001 he went to do a research fellowship in endocrinology at Mayo Clinic with Sree Nair. He was appointed as a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in 2004, and Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of East Anglia in 2019.
He has several national roles in the UK. He is the Chair of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and was also the Chair of the Joint British Diabetes Societies Inpatient Care Group. He is the Chair of the Examining Board for the UK Specialist Clinical Exam in Diabetes and Endocrinology (the equivalent to the US Board exam). He is the Section Co-editor for diabetes for www.endotext.org. He is also the Chair of the 2027 International Working Group for the Diabetic Foot guideline writing group for wound healing.
Professor Dhatariya has over 220 peer reviewed publications and has published over 25 book chapters on inpatient diabetes, peri-operative diabetes care or on the diabetic foot.