Claire Meek
Professor of Chemical Pathology & Diabetes in Pregnancy
Biography
Claire Meek is Professor of Chemical Pathology and Diabetes in Pregnancy at Leicester Diabetes Centre. She runs the diabetes in pregnancy service at University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, which includes a large, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse cohort of women with early-onset type 2 diabetes (EoT2D). She runs observational and interventional studies to improve clinical outcomes for women with all forms of diabetes in pregnancy.
Professor Meek started her research career at the University of Cambridge, studying nutritional interventions to improve glycaemia and weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes. Postdoctoral, she contributed to the CONCEPTT trial, assessing real-time continuous glucose monitoring in type 1 diabetes in pregnancy, translated into clinical care internationally. In 2018, she received a Diabetes UK intermediate clinical fellowship to run a randomised control trial (RCT) of a dietary intervention in gestational diabetes (DiGest trial; recently finished). She also received a Future Leaders’ Award from the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (2019) in association with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, assessing progression to EoT2D after gestational diabetes.
Professor Meek has received several other national and international awards from institutions including the American Diabetes Association, the European Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group, the Association of Physicians (UK), and the British Medical Foundation.
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Professor Meek brings her extensive experience with pregnant women with type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes to the LDC, where she continues to advance the understanding of diabetes, nutrition, and obesity in pregnancy through research. She is particularly interested in the role of nutrition and weight management to pregnancy outcomes.
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Professor Meek supervises PhD and MSc students, and teaches on the Diabetes MSc, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning course. She has also contributed to national Health Education England training for specialty registrars in chemical pathology, and teaches junior doctors in Leicester.
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Professor Meek has established a patient participation involvement and engagement (PPIE) group in Cambridge, and is working to establish similar groups in Leicester. For previous projects, she has engaged with traditional and social media, using press releases and novel science communication modalities.
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