Conference Speakers

Conference Chairs and Organisers

• Dr Fiona Campbell 
• Dr Renuka Dias 

Keynote Speakers

Dr Fiona Campbell, Consultant Paediatric Diabetologist Leeds Children’s Hospital Leeds, UK Dr Campbell has been a Consultant in Paediatric Diabetes for almost 30 years. Clinically she leads a large diabetes service at Leeds Children’s Hospital, Leeds. England, UK caring for over 580 patients aged 0-20 years. The Leeds diabetes team has a national and international reputation for research and innovative practice especially in the use of diabetes related technologies and integrating their use into routine clinical care. More recently the team have been turning their attention towards the management of Early-Stage Type 1 Diabetes. Dr Campbell is a member of the BSPED Early Stage T1D Steering Group. She also attends the Early stage T1D Special Interest Group. These groups have been set up to look at how best to screen and monitor the early stages of T1D as well as how best to administer immnunotherapies to modulate the progression of the disease She is current Chair of the National Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Diabetes Clinical Network in England, UK. She has held this role for the last 15 years and believes that this has given her a unique perspective of the national picture in the provision of services and standards of care offered to CYP with diabetes nationally. At the RCPCH, she has been a member of the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit Project Board for the last 14 years as well as Chair of the NPDA Dataset and Methodology Group. She was the clinical advisor at the RCPCH, Policy and Standards Division and during this time led the development of the National CYP Diabetes Quality Programme that ran between 2018-2023. This consisted of Peer Review of services and Quality Improvement Training for all members of 173 diabetes teams across England and Wales Internationally, Dr Campbell is a member of the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), and her Leeds based clinical service is a member of SWEET- a special group of certified, world-wide Centres of Reference. Dr Campbell has completed a second 3-year term of office on the Council of Healthcare Professionals at Diabetes UK to ensure that the interests of children and young people living with diabetes are addressed. She is currently Co-Chair of the Diabetes UK Healthcare Professionals Advisory Group  Dr Fiona Campbell Nov 2025

Dr Renuka Dias BMedSci MBBS FRCPCH PhD Birmingham Renuka Dias is a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist working at Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital and is an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Birmingham. She is the Clinical Lead for the National Highly Specialised Service for Wolfram Syndrome (Children) in Birmingham. Research: Type 1 Diabetes: Screening and management for early Type 1 Diabetes and health inequalities in Type 1 Diabetes. She is the lead Paediatrician for the ELSA study (www.elsadiabetes.nhs.uk/) and a part of the EDENT1FI consortium (www.edent1fi.eu) Rare Diseases: She is part of the Life Arc Funded Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials consortium (WP1: Facilitating Recruitment and WP4: Accelerating Trial Delivery). www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/dias-renuka 

Maddie Julian is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DigiBete, an award-winning, NHS-funded digital self-management platform and app that supports children, young people, and families living with Type 1 diabetes. She co-founded DigiBete after her own young child was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, driving her to make high-quality, age-appropriate diabetes education and support widely accessible online. A teacher by profession, Maddie brings over 15 years of experience in commercial arts, education and community-focused work, and has a strong commitment to peer-supported learning in long-term condition care. Under her leadership, DigiBete has grown into a nationally recognised, clinically approved resource used by NHS clinics across the UK.

Fulya is a Paediatrician working in Diabetes and General Paediatrics at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. She is the National Speciality Advisor for Children and Young Adults (CYA) in the NHS England diabetes programme and prior to this was the clinical lead for the CYA workstream. Fulya has provided clinical leadership across key programme areas including tackling health inequalities with a focus on improving access to treatment technology, transition and young adult care and improving care and outcomes for young people living with type 2 diabetes.  She has led on developing and delivering the CYA Diabetes ‘Getting It Right First Time’ programme and the CYA Diabetes Rightcare Toolkit, to support systems to improve diabetes care locally and reduce unwarranted variation.

Parth's research interest focusses on understanding the autoimmune destruction of insulin secreting beta cells that lead to type 1 diabetes and exploring how this process can be modulated. He is part of a national effort to explore the feasibility and acceptability of early surveillance programmes for pre-type 1 diabetes and is also exploring which therapies are best tested in the prevention arena. He has developed an international reputation for exploring whether exercise can be used to modulate the autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes. He is the Chair of the MS Prevention Taskforce for the Multiple Sclerosis Society to explore treatment parallels across other conditions with similarities to type 1 diabetes. Parth leads the Diabetes Research Unit and the Type 1 Diabetes clinical service at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications including publications that have been cited by international bodies on Type 1 diabetes and its management. He has served on the Diabetes UK Research Committee and was previously on the Research Advisory Board of the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation and Regional Advisory Committee for the NIHR RfPB programme. He was previous chair of the Academic subcommittee of The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists having led and supported the setting up of its first research grant funding scheme and national Diabetes Update training programme for doctors specialising in diabetes and endocrinology.

Dr Tabitha Randell has been a consultant in paediatric endocrinology and diabetes at Nottingham Children's Hospital for over 20 years. She was chair of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) from 2020-2024 and prior to that, was chair of the BSPED Clinical Committee. She was responsible for devising, negotiating and implementing the Paediatric Diabetes Best Practice Tariff, resulting in a standardisation of diabetes care for children and young people across the whole of England, along with a substantial uplift in funding for all centres meeting the BPT standards and significant improvements in paediatric diabetes outcomes. She is currently co-chair of the BSPED Pre-type 1 Diabetes Special Interest Group along with Rachel Besser and leads the HCP education pathway group within the SIG.

Neil Wright is a Consultant Paediatrican with a Sub-speciality interest in Endocrinology & Diabetes based at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He is the clinical lead for the NHS England funded CEW Service (Complications of excess weight) in Sheffield. 

He has developed experience of using immunotherapy in practice as part of clinical trials. He has contributed to the BSPED consensus on Teplizumab and inputted to the NICE review.