Associate Professor Dimitrios Papamargaritis

Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology University of Leicester/ Kettering General Hospital

Dr Dimitris Papamargaritis is Associate Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology at University of Leicester (Leicester Diabetes Research Centre) and Honorary Consultant at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (Kettering General Hospital) with special interest in obesity and type 2 diabetes. He is SCOPE certified and a National Clinical Fellow of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). He is also member of the academic and research grant committees of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD).

Dimitris has graduated from the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007) and completed his PhD (University of Thessaly, Greece) on gut hormone changes after sleeve gastrectomy. He completed his core medical training, his higher specialist training in diabetes and endocrinology and the NIHR integrated clinical academic training programme (as ACF and ACL) in Leicester (2013 – 2022).

His research focuses on the mechanisms of weight loss and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery and identifying potential treatments for postprandial hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia. Other research interests include understanding how to best combine lifestyle, pharmacological and surgical treatments for management of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

His clinical priority over the next years is to ensure that people living with obesity at Northamptonshire will have access to the NICE approved pharmacotherapies for weight management. His career aim is to become a leading clinical academic who will improve the care and life of people living with obesity by conducting high quality and impactful clinical research.