Dr Samer Al-Sabbagh

After obtaining my Medicine Diploma from Damascus Medical School, I completed post graduate training in General Medicine in Damascus University Hospitals and achieved two qualifications in general medicine - GIM. Following this, I was involved in research in diabetic foot disease with Professor Andrew Boulton in Manchester Infirmary between 1999-2001. After obtaining his MRCP UK, I specialised in GIM, diabetes and endocrinology at Ipswich and Cambridge University Hospitals. In 2009 after CCST, I worked in my first consultant post at West Hertfordshire NHS trust before moving to Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Trust. I Joined East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in 2011 and was appointed to a substantive post at the trust in 2013. I was awarded The Royal College of Physicians fellowship, FRCP two years ago and have been a consultant in my specialties for 10 years.

I am currently the lead for diabetic feet, endocrine oncology and hyponatraemia in East and North Herts. I am actively involved in teaching. I have special interests in new therapies & technologies in diabetes and endocrine care. My main endocrine interests are adrenal, pituitary, gonads and thyroid disease. My diabetes clinics at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust are in renal diabetes and diabetic feet. I am a core member of the diabetes and Endocrine outreach team who has recently won the national QiC award for best in patient initiative in diabetes. I gained considerable experience in all aspects of endocrinology; thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, PCOS, gonads and pituitary disease.