Professor Ewan Pearson

Ewan Pearson is Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Dundee and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee.   Ewan is an Associate Director for the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, where he leads the Diabetes Data Catalyst.

Ewan obtained his medical degree from the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK.  He undertook a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training fellowship with Prof Andrew Hattersley at the University of Exeter Medical School, UK and completed his PhD in the physiology and treatment of monogenic diabetes. He then moved to Dundee where he was supported by a Chief Scientist Office Clinician Scientist fellowship and then by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. Over the last fifteen years in Dundee his research interests have been in the phenotypic and genotypic determinants of drug response in diabetes, and in stratified approaches to the management of diabetes.  He lead the IMI-DIRECT project on stratification in type 2 diabetes and was WP lead for the IMI-SOPHIA project on obesity outcomes.  Ewan also leads the recently awarded £2.8M iDiabetes programme - to implement precision diabetes care in Tayside.  Ewan was  chair of the Wellcome Clinical interviews committee and then co-chair of the Wellcome Early Career Awards Committee.

Ewan has been awarded the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Croom Lecture, an EASD Rising Star award, the Diabetes UK RD Lawrence Lecture, the EASD Minkowski Award, the Diabetes UK Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture and Society for Endocrinology Medal for his work in these areas.  In 2022 Ewan was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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