Professor Ketan Dhatariya graduated from the University of London in 1991 and did his diabetes and endocrinology training in and around London. He was also a part time General Practitioner and took some time out of his training to spend a year doing intensive care medicine and anaesthetics. After finishing his training in 2001 he went to do a research fellowship in endocrinology at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He was appointed as a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital in 2004 and appointed as an Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of East Anglia in 2019. He has several national roles in the UK. He is the Chair of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and was also the Chair of the Joint British Diabetes Societies Inpatient Care Group, we he led the revision of most of the inpatient guidelines. He is the Chair of the Examining Board for the UK Specialist Clinical Exam in Diabetes and Endocrinology. He is the Section Co-editor for diabetes for www.endotext.org. He is also the Chair of the 2027 International Working Group for the Diabetic Foot guideline writing group for wound healing. Professor Dhatariya has over 220 peer reviewed publications and has published over 25 book chapters on inpatient diabetes, peri-operative diabetes care or on the diabetic foot. The website www.endotext.com has named him as the world’s top expert in diabetic ketoacidosis, and in the top 10 for hyperglycaemia.