Prof Rory McCrimmon

Address
Tayside NHS Board Headquarters, Level 10, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY


Nature of Appointment
Non Executive Member


NHS Tayside Committee Membership
Public Health Committee (Vice Chair)
Remuneration Committee



Personal Profile
Rory McCrimmon trained at the University of Edinburgh and completed his clinical and speciality training in the South-East of Scotland before becoming an NHS Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, in 2000. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Yale University, Connecticut, to investigate why people with type 1 and 2 diabetes are very prone to developing low glucose (Hypoglycaemia). He returned to Scotland in 2009 to establish his laboratory at the University of Dundee, where he is currently Dean of Medicine, Professor of Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism and Honorary Consultant He was awarded the 2015 RD Lawrence Lecture by Diabetes UK for his research in Hypoglycaemia.

Rory is currently also Lead Clinician for the Scottish Diabetes Research Network (SDRN), which provides the necessary infrastructure to co-ordinate and enable academic and commercial research throughout Scotland. The SDRN hosts a National Research Register of over 11,000 subjects with diabetes pre-consented to be contacted about clinical trials. The register is directly linked to SCI-diabetes, which contains secure clinical and biochemical data on over 350,000 people with diabetes in Scotland.

Rory serves on Editorial Boards of Diabetologia and Diabetes. He is a panel member for: Medical Research Council Population and Systems Medicine Board, Diabetes UK, Clinical Studies Group Management Committee; Diabetes UK, Intermediate Clinical Fellowships Panel; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation PEAK Programme; Panel member, International Hypoglycaemia Study Group.

All members of Tayside NHS Board are expected to comply with Members' code of conduct and the Standards of business conduct for NHS staff.  This is detailed in the NHS Tayside Code of Corporate Governance.

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