David Dunger
David Dunger | |
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| Education | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
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| Fields | Paediatric diabetes and Pediatric endocrinology |
| Institutions | John Radcliffe Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital |
David Dunger (died 20 July 2021) was a British paediatric endocrinologist and chair of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge.[1] Dunger was most notable for research into three areas, pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes and its complications, perinatal origins of risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes along with experimental medicine.[2][3]
Life
[edit | edit source]Dunger undertook his clinical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University of London, specialising in paediatric diabetes and paediatric endocrinology [1] achieving a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery on 1 January 1971.
Dunger died on 20 July 2021.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Between 1986 and 2000 Dunger was Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford.[5] In 2000, Dunger was appointed to Addenbrooke's Hospital and at the same time took up the second Chair of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge.[5]
Awards and honours
[edit | edit source]In 2002, Dunger won the Research Award of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology for conducting outstanding research in the field.[1][6] In 2012, Dunger was awarded the Andrea Prader Prize, from the same society, in recognising his outstanding achievements in leadership, teaching and clinical practice in the field of pediatric endocrinology.[7] The award was named in honour of Andrea Prader, the Swiss scientist, pediatric endocrinologist, who discovered Prader–Willi syndrome. In 2015, Dunger was awarded the James Spence Medal.[2][8]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Dunger co-wrote these highly cited articles:
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References
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