12/10/2025
Prof. Simon Heller (UK) invites you all to PES-CON 2025...
Simon Heller is Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, Director of Research and Development and Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, UK.
He is currently a member of Diabetes UK Science and Research Advisory Group, a member of the UK NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Panel and the UK Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, UK Scientific Advisory Committee. He was Editor in Chief of Diabetic Medicine from 2000-2005. He is currently the National Speciality Lead in Diabetes to the UK NIHR Clinical Research Network. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator.
His current research interests include the pathophysiological responses to hypoglycaemia and hypoglycaemia unawareness, the potential contribution and mechanisms of hypoglycaemia to cardiovascular mortality, the use of insulin analogues and other technologies to reduce hypoglycaemia. He chaired the glucose control group of the ADVANCE trial and was the PI on the REPOSE trial measuring the effectiveness of insulin pumps. He also conducts research programmes concerned with developing interventions (including the DAFNE intervention) to encourage more effective diabetes self-management. He chairs the International Hypoglycaemia Study Group, 15 professionals and academics with expertise in diabetic hypoglycaemia who have recently been working with both ADA and EASD to extend the classification of hypoglycaemia.
