Director of Research and Innovation, William Sansum Diabetes Center, Santa
Barbara, California (www.sansum.org)
David Kerr is a UK trained physician and endocrinologist. This is his third time living
in the US having been a researcher at Yale in the 1990’s and then an Editor of the
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology in 2010 while he lived in the
San Francisco Bay area.
Prof Kerr went to school and University in Scotland and subsequently spent most of his
professional life being a full-time clinician and the rest of the time educating the
English on best practices for the effective management of diabetes. David is Fellow
of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Visiting Professor at Bournemouth
University and for many years has held a Gold Clinical Excellence Award from the
National Health Service in the UK. Over the years his research has focused on
practical concerns for people living with diabetes including hypoglycemia, the impact
of caffeine and alcohol on hypoglycemia awareness, service delivery, in-hospital
diabetes care and the development, evaluation and introduction of digital health for
diabetes care. He is also a regular blogger on BMJ.com
He is creator and founder of
(a) www.diabetestravel.org
(previously www.VoyageMD.com) a free on line resource focusing on long-haul travel
and diabetes, (b) www.excarbs.com to help people
with insulin treated diabetes participate in physical activity and (c) ‘Appy Feet –
a free smartphone app for people with diabetes complicated by painful neuropathy.
Prof Kerr joined the William Sansum Diabetes Center in Santa Barbara in April 2014 to
help develop the idea of “breaking the code” – taking what is already available and
what is being developed and modifying and creating technology to benefit the maximum
number of people with diabetes for the longest period of time and with the minimum
disruption to their lives.
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