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Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology / Acute Medicine

Qualifications:
Bachelor of Medicine with Honours, Southampton University 1998
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians 2001
Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education 2007.
CCT in Diabetes & Endocrinology/ General Internal Medicine 2008

 

General information:
Dr Kate Evans graduated from Southampton University in 1998, followed by postgraduate training in General Medicine/ Diabetes & Endocrinology in the Wessex and Peninsula deaneries. She has also spent time training overseas, as a registrar in Perth, Australia, and as an Endocrinology associate fellow in Michigan, USA. Dr Evans was appointed as a Consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinology Acute Medicine in 2010, having previously worked on the Acute Medical Unit and as part of the Diabetes & Endocrine team as a locum consultant.

 

General areas of expertise: 
The care and management of acutely unwell patients as part of the Acute Medical Unit team
Teaching and training medical students and junior doctors in caring for the acutely unwell patient.
Providing general diabetes and endocrine outpatient clinics, as well various specialist diabetes services.

 

Particular areas of expertise:
Prenatal and Antenatal Diabetes care
Intensive insulin management, including Insulin pump therapy
Instructor for ASCERT course

 

Contact details:
Acute Medical Unit
Level 6
Derriford Hospital
Derriford Road
Crownhill 
Plymouth 
Devon
PL6 8DH

Secretary: 01752 439290