Rob Andrews, Associate Professor, University of Exeter.

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Rob Andrews is an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, an Honorary Consultant Physician at Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton and a Danish Diabetes Academy visiting Professor. At the University Rob he leads a group that conducts clinical trials to determine how best to help people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to improve their diets, increase their activity levels and to lose weight. Past studies include the long-term effects of diet and diet and exercise interventions in patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes (ACTID follow up); the role that sedentary time has in the metabolic characteristics of patients with Type 2 diabetes (STAMP 2); how exercise can affect beta cell function in Type 1 diabetes (EXTOD). and development of education programme for people with Type 1 diabetes (with accompanying training for health care professionals to deliver this programme) to guide insulin and carbohydrate adjustment for safe exercise (EXTOD education). Ongoing studies include; EXTOD education online a study that adapt the EXTOD education programme to an online programme; EXTOD education Denmark a study that aims to culturally adapt the EXTOD education programme so it can be used in Denmark; EXTOD adolescents a study that aims to develop an education programme to help encourage and support exercise in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes; ByBandSleeve the largest bariatric surgical RCT in the world which aims to determine the best operation for treating patients with morbid obesity and MOTIVATE T2D a study that aims to determine the best ways to remotely support people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes to increase their everyday physical activity to improve their diabetes control. At Musgrove Rob leads the diabetes Research team and is the Clinical lead for one of the largest multidisciplinary weight management services in the UK. As as well as doing regular Diabetes and obesity clinics he runs specialist adult, adolescent and paediatric sports clinics to give advice to sports men, women and children who have Type 1 diabetes.