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  1. < Virtual Coffee Chat: The Basics of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) for Discovery Scientists

Speakers for the Society’s Science Committee for a virtual, round-table discussion about the essentials of PPIE for discovery science.

Dr Gabriella da Silva Xavier

Gaby is an Associate Professor in Cellular Metabolism and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  An expert in pancreatic islet biology, she is interested in energy homeostasis, particularly in fuel sensing mechanisms that may play a role in diabetes and obesity.  She is currently also studying mechanisms behind some rare metabolic conditions. Gaby is a team member of the NIHR Women's Metabolic Health Theme.  An active member of the Society for Endocrinology, she is Deputy Chair of the Grant Committee and co-Editor-in-Chief of two of the Society’s journals- Journal of Endocrinology (JOE) and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology- having previously served on the Science Committee.  A graduate of the University of Bristol, Gaby is passionate about supporting and training the next generation of scientists, and in engaging patients and the public in research.

Dr Alison McNeilly

Alison is a newly appointed Principal Investigator at the University of Dundee’s Medical School working in the Division of Systems Medicine. Her research focus is upon the impact of diabetes and, in particular, low glucose (hypoglycaemia) on cognitive and vascular function. Alison received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Professor Ruth Andrew and Professor Brian Walker. Her subsequent Diabetes UK and JDRF funded post-doctoral research positions with Prof Rory McCrimmon (2012-2018) focused on complications associated with repeated exposure to hypoglycaemia in Type 1 diabetes.  Her research also covers the role potential role of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in diabetes-associated cognitive and vascular complications. Alison is a member of the IMI funded HypoRESOLVE consortium, a €26.8 million Innovative Medicine Initiative bringing together 23 partners over 9 European Countries, comprising academic experts, clinicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and patient organisations to improve our understanding of hypoglycaemia. She is also working on Diabetes UK, Wellcome (ISSF) and Tenovus funded projects.

Dr Ruth Morgan

Ruth is a veterinary endocrinologist and a lecturer at the SRUC/University of Edinburgh based at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. She qualified from Cambridge University and after several years in private equine practice completed her residency in Equine Internal Medicine at Liverpool University. She became a diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine in 2013. She received her PhD in “Cortisol dysregulation in equine endocrinopathic laminitis” from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. She then undertook her first Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and has just been awarded a second fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. Her research focuses comparative glucocorticoid biology and in particular the role of glucocorticoid metabolism in health and disease. Working with experimental models, veterinary clinical cases and human data she investigates the relationships between glucocorticoid metabolism and the morbidities associated with obesity.