Our Named Lectures give you an exclusive insight into the latest research and understanding of diabetes treatment and care.
We're pleased to announce the awardees who delivered our Named Lectures at the previous Diabetes UK Professional Conference in 2025 - see below.
Awarded through a competitive process, they are our keynote lectures, forming an integral component of the conference programme. They provided a platform to share recent developments in research and progressive thinking about diabetes care and recognised the lecturer's outstanding contribution to the field.
Calls for our 2026 named lectures
Banting Memorial Lecture
Professor Jonathan Valabhji, Clinical Chair in Medicine; Honorary Consultant Diabetologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Campus, Imperial College London.
Aligning clinical practice, policy and research: Professor Valabhji describes his personal, clinical, leadership and academic journeys and his work in the field of diabetes, including that related to the latest epidemiological transition to multiple long-term conditions.
Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture
Professor Ines Barroso, Professor of Diabetes, University of Exeter Medical School. Diabetes: from genetic discovery to impact for patients:
Professor Barroso shares her research journey and how her genetics expertise helped answer crucial questions for people living with diabetes.
Janet Kinson Lecture
Ms Jayne Robbie, Senior Podiatrist/Senior Lecturer, Birmingham City University. ACT NOW before it’s too late!: The lecture will present the development of the IDEAL Diabetes ACT NOW resources, from their inception just before the Covid-19 pandemic to the outcome of a national trial in primary and secondary care.
Congratulations to all the awardees.
