invited international speakers

Dr Nalini Shah

Dr Nalini Samir Shah is Professor & Head, Department of Endocrinology, Seth G S Medical College, K.E.M.Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India. She is known for her astute clinical judgment and her keen interest in training her post graduates specializing in endocrinology.  An academician to the core, she has always been a merit holder with several “first” and gold medals to her credit. She has received training in Paediatric Endocrinology in London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology. She heads a busy department known nationally and internationally for the vast clinical experience it offers. She is ideally suited to address the topics assigned for this meeting. She has several publications to her credit in various international journals. She has held several positions of responsibility to her credit. She has been president of Indian Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology.

Prof Outi Mäkitie

Prof. Outi Mäkitie received her MD degree and completed specialty training for paediatrics and paediatric endocrinology at University of Helsinki, Finland. After a three-year fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada in 2000-2003, she worked at Children’s Hospital, University of Helsinki, as Head of Metabolic Bone Clinic, Division of Paediatric Endocrinology until 2013. In 2013-2015 she was visiting scientist at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Since 2015, she is Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology and Chief Physician at Children’s Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Visiting Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. For the academic year 2018-2019 she joined Prof. Valérie Cormier-Daire’s research group as Visiting Scientist at Institut Imagine and Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France. Prof. Mäkitie has carried out clinical and translational research on skeletal disorders and has published more than 280 scientific articles.

Dr Julia Ware

Julia Ware is a clinical research fellow with the Artificial Pancreas Group under Prof Hovorka at the University of Cambridge, and paediatric registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Ware‘s current PhD research focuses on the impact of closed-loop technology on glycaemic control and quality of life in children and young people with type 1 diabetes. Her special interest is in very young children with type 1 diabetes, and investigating how optimising new technologies might ease diabetes burden and improve outcomes in this vulnerable population.