Professor Roger Gadsby

GP & Associate Clinical Professor

Dr Roger Gadsby qualified in medicine at Birmingham University in 1974. After postgraduate training in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent, he joined the Redroofs general practice in Nuneaton in 1979 and has been Senior Partner in this nine-doctor teaching practice since 1999.

Roger set up a practice diabetes clinic in 1984 and has been speaking and writing about diabetes ever since. He has written four diabetes textbooks, ten textbook chapters and over 200 articles and papers.

In 1992 Roger became a part-time academic at Warwick University where he has developed assessed, accredited diabetes education programmes. He is now an Associate Clinical Professor at Warwick Medical School. He developed, with others, Warwick Diabetes Care which was launched in November 2000 with a mission to become an internationally-recognised centre of excellence, delivering the highest standards of diabetes education, research, information and materials to improve the quality of diabetes care. Over 8000 healthcare professionals, mainly GPs and practice nurses, have taken the Certificate in Diabetes Care programme.

Roger is Clinical Lead for the Diabetes Specialist Library for the National Library for Health (NLH). He was a founder member of the Primary Care Diabetes Society (PCDS) in the UK and was its treasurer from 2005-2008.

Roger has been a member of the development group for four clinical diabetes guidelines published by NICE in the UK. He was also a member of the guideline development group for the IDF global type 2 diabetes guideline published in September 2005.

He was awarded an MBE for ‘services to diabetes and the NHS’ in the Queen’s birthday honours list in June 2009.