Consultants

Dr. Ralph Abraham is the Clinical Director of London Medical, which he founded as The London Diabetes & Lipid Centre in 1991.  Starting his career as a biochemist at Oxford, he did a PhD in Biochemistry at Imperial College on insulin resistance in obese mice, a subject that is all too relevant in the management of diabetes today.  He was trained at the Hammersmith Hospital and Kings College Hospital in gastroenterology and hepatology before specialising in Endocrinology and Diabetes at St Mary's Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, leaving the NHS in 1986.  Dr. Abraham works in full time private practice with a successful and recognised expertise in diabetes, endocrinology, lipid disorders and obesity management.  He also runs the SmartWeight programme for obesity.

Dr Stephanie Baldeweg is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University College London Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at UCL.  She graduated from Humboldt University, Berlin in 1990 and undertook her Specialist Training in London. She was awarded the MD for the thesis on “Insulin resistance and endothelial function in health and type 2 diabetes”. Dr Baldeweg is interested in all aspects of diabetes and endocrinology. These include thyroid, reproductive and pituitary disorders as well as osteoporosis, weight management and cardiovascular risk reduction. She also has an interest in pregnancy preparation for women with diabetes and endocrine disease. Dr Baldeweg is the Training Program Director for the North Thames Rotation in Diabetes and Endocrinology. She regularly lectures at national and international meetings as well as Patient days for Support groups such as Diabetes UK and the Pituitary Foundation. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in March 2009 (FRCPI) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in June 2009 (FRCP).

Laila is a Diabetes Nurse Consultant as well as an Educator. She studied European languages and Linguistics before entering into Nursing as a postgraduate. Laila's youngest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of four and now successfully manages her condition with an insulin pump. Passionate to enable everyone with diabetes to get in control with their condition, she has acquired advanced clinical expertise and practical understanding about life with diabetes and transferred this into publications, such as: 'Insulin Injection Technique' (2003), 'Delayed Wound Healing in Diabetes' (2001), and 'Diabetes in South Asians Explained' (Tahseen A Chowdhury & Laila T King, Altman Publishers, in print). Laila's CD of 'Living with Diabetes 2007' contains extensive information on every aspect a person with diabetes or their family might want to know. Laila has been instrumental in developing and delivering diabetes self-management education to patients and their families as well as healthcare professionals in the NHS. She has now joined London Medical in that role, in addition to working for the Warwick University Medical School. Laila has a motto: 'A reed cannot change its position in the field but it can learn to bend with the elements'. This, she believes, fully applies to the person who develops diabetes - as yet incurable, however, manageable with empowering education and ongoing support.

MA, BM BCh, MSc, FRCP, DFPHM - Consultant Endocrinologist
Dr. Isaacs is a Consultant Endocrinologist Emeritus. He has had broad interests in endocrinology including the investigation and treatment of thyroid disease, reproductive and weight disorders, osteoporosis and the menopause.
Dr. Isaacs has published a number of original research papers and has been awarded research grants from the King’s Fund PACE (Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness) and from the NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment Programme.
He is Associate Professor at the School of Health of Middlesex University, a member of the Society for Endocrinology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Honorary Secretary of its Endocrinology and Diabetes Section.

MA, MBBS, MD, FRCP - Consultant Physician
Dr. Levy is a consultant physician in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology at Whipps Cross Hospital. He has an MD from the University of London (1993) on work done on small fibre neuropathy in diabetes mellitus and has published over 25 papers. He has also written a book for the hospital based doctor on "Practical Diabetes" in 1999. He is a member of Diabetes UK, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the American Diabetes Association.

MB, BChir, MRCS, MRCS, LRCP, MD, FRCP, MRCP - Consultant Physician
Dr. Oakley was educated at Rugby School and King’s College Cambridge (major scholar).  With a 1st class degree in biochemistry he entered University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1958. After posts at UCH and Hammersmith Hospital he was awarded a Nuffield Fellowship to the University of Pittsburgh. In 1970 he became deputy director of the Metabolic Unit at St. Mary’s, as Senior Lecturer and Hon. Consultant Physician. In 1978 he was appointed Consultant Physician to St. George’s Hospital, where was head of Diabetes and Endocrinology until his retirement from the NHS in 1999. Dr. Oakley’s research interests have included diabetic retinopathy, the subject of his Cambridge MD, diabetic pregnancy, and the application of IT to diabetic clinic management. He has published many papers on aspects of clinical diabetes and has undertaken invitation lecture tours to Australia and India. He has been in private practice since 1978.

BSc MB BS FRCP
Dr. Prentice is a consultant physician in general medicine, endocrinology and diabetes at Mayday University Hospital, and Honorary Consultant at St. George’s Hospital, South London.  He trained at King’s College Hospital and has a BSc in Pharmacology from King’s College, London.
Dr. Prentice has a special interest in thyroid disease, thyroid nodules, goitre and radioactive iodine therapy for which he has an ARSAC licence, and was one of the first people in the UK to set up a one-stop thyroid nodule clinic with ultrasound in 1990.  He is the co-author of Guidelines for the use of Thyroid Ultrasound by Non-Radiologists and runs the national training course for thyroid ultrasound jointly with the Royal College of Radiologists.  Dr. Prentice is on the UK working party for the UK Guidelines on Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Adults, and former Secretary of the British Thyroid Association.  He is also a member of the Society for Endocrinology, European Thyroid Association and Diabetes UK.