Roger Gadsby

Background

Gadsby was born on February 3, 1950 in Coventry, United Kingdom; the son of Frank William Gadsby and Nellie Irene (Faulconbridge) Gadsby.

Education

Gadsby received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Birmingham in 1971. Three years later he earned his Bachelor of Medicine degree and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the same university.

Career

Gadsby set up a practice diabetes clinic in 1984 and has been speaking and writing about diabetes ever since. Since 1992 he has been a senior clinical lecturer at the Warwick Medical School. Also since 2007 Roger has served as an associate clinical professor at the same school. There he has run short courses on primary care topics, developed the Certificate in Primary Diabetes Care and other diabetes courses, and taught on the Primary Care Management programme. Roger is a chairman of the trustees for Pregnancy Sickness Support.

Achievements

• Gadsby was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "services to diabetes and the National Health Service" in the Queen's birthday honours list in June 2009.

Works

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• book

  • Delivering Quality Diabetes Care in General Practice

    (This book enables everyone working in community diabetes ...)

    2005
  • Vital Diabetes Management 2008
  • Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders in Primary Care

Membership

Gadsby was a founding member of the Primary Care Diabetes Society in the United Kingdom and was its treasurer from 2005 to 2008. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, British Medical Association and British Diabetic Association.

Interests

• jogging, gardening

Connections

In October 1974, Roger Gatsby married Pamela Joy Gadsby. They have two children.

Father:

Frank William Gadsby

Mother:

Nellie Irene (Faulconbridge) Gadsby

Spouse:

Pamela Joy Gadsby

child:

Andrew David Gadsby

child:

Emma Elizabeth Gadsby