Professor Kristien Boelaert, based at the University of Birmingham, is a leading authority in thyroid disease research. As a Consultant Endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham, she's published over 180 papers and accumulated £8 million in research grants. Boelaert was the first recipient of the Society for Endocrinology's Outstanding Clinical Practitioner Award and led the NICE Guidelines on Thyroid Diseases. She holds memberships in several guideline panels, including RCOG Green-Top and the American Thyroid Association. Currently, Boelaert is the President-Elect of the British Thyroid Association and Chair of the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology.

Professor Jon Wadsley, a Clinical Oncologist since 2004 at Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, specialises in thyroid cancer, neuroendocrine tumours, and pancreatic/biliary tract cancers. He's deeply engaged in molecular radiotherapy and conducts research centred on thyroid cancer and neuroendocrine tumours. Notably, he serves on the NCRI Thyroid Cancer Subgroup and holds key roles as Clinical Director at the Sheffield Cancer Clinical Trials Centre, Cancer Specialty Lead for Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network, and NIHR National Specialty Lead for Radiotherapy and Imaging.

Dr Renuka Dias is a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist working at Birmingham Women and Children’s Hospital and an honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She is the clinical lead for Diabetes and co-leads the National highly specialised service for Wolfram Syndrome (Children) in Birmingham. She was the 2019 NICE Thyroid Guidelines Committee and the 2022 European Thyroid Association Consensus for management of Thyroid Nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer in children. Her clinical research interests include thyroid cancer (specifically Medullary Thyroid Cancer as part of MEN2) and Graves Disease in children.

Neil Sharma is a Consultant Head and Neck/Thyroid Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. He has a high volume complex thyroid surgical practice, specialising in thyroid cancer, complex thyrotoxicosis, retrosternal thyroid disease and revision thyroid surgery. He leads the thyroid cancer service and runs the Midlands Genetic Thyroid Oncology Clinic. He also operates at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, working alongside paediatric otolaryngologists treating children with thyroid and parathyroid disease. He has lectured and published widely on thyroid disease, and sits on the executive board of the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons.