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A Grand Dame!
Diabetes Professor Stephanie Amiel made a Dame in
2025's New Year's Honours List.
Professor Stephanie Amiel,
Honorary Consultant in
Diabetes at King's College
Hospital in London, has
received a Damehood for services to
people living with diabetes.
As an experimental medicine
researcher and a clinical diabetes
physician, in her career she has used
multiple methods to investigate
clinical problems in diabetes
therapies, including hypoglycaemia
in insulin therapy, the role of the
brain in the control of peripheral
metabolism, and the impact of black
African ethnicity on the metabolic
derangements that lead to Type 2
diabetes.
Dame Amiel works collaboratively
with colleagues in neuroimaging,
nutrition, psychology and education
and transplantation to improve
outcomes particularly for adults
with Type 1 diabetes. With Sheffield
and North Tyneside, and nursing
colleagues from King's College
Hospital, she led the King's team
in the development of the patient
education programme DAFNE and
continues to work on improvements
to the original curriculum.
Study Group, which first set out
the now widely adopted definitions
of hypoglycaemia in diabetes;
participated in the development of
international guidelines for the use of
metabolic surgery in Type 2 diabetes
and the use of continuous glucose
monitoring in improving diabetes
outcomes. She has chaired the NICE
guideline development group for the
most recent clinical guideline in the
diagnosis and management of Type 1
diabetes in adults.
Amiel is also chairman of the
Strategic Research Advisory Group
for Diabetes UK and part of the EU
IMI initiative HypoRESOLVE, which
seeks to define hypos in terms of its
impact on patients' lives. She is also a
mentor on the European Federation
for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD)
research mentorship programme and
sits on its panel.
Speaking on receipt of the
damehood she said, "To receive the
honour for services to people with
diabetes is at once heartwarming and
humbling. They are the true heroes in
the diabetes story and if I have been
able to make things a little better
for some of them, that is an honour
indeed."
Although retired, she is still
involved in projects. Her current
research is funded by Breakthrough
Type 1 UK, Diabetes UK and other
organisations in Europe.
EDITORS COMMENT
Our congratulations and thanks go to
Prof Amiel for this extremely welldeserved
'gong'. Anyone who has met
her, seen her talk, or followed her
career will know that she's one-ofa-kind and has a lasting impression
on anyone who knows her. -
Sue Marshall
To receive the
honour for
services to
people with
diabetes is at once
heartwarming
and humbling.
They are the true
heroes in the
diabetes story
and if I have been
able to make
things a little
better for some
of them, that is an
honour indeed.
~ Prof Stephanie
Amiel, DBE
With the King's Liver teams, she
also developed islet transplantation
at King's for adults with Type 1
diabetes and treatment-resistant
hypoglycaemia.
Nicely resolved
Amiel is a founder member of
the International Hypoglycaemia