About

Claire Meek is a Professor at the University of Leicester in the field of chemical pathology and diabetes in pregnancy.

 

She is also a clinical consultant in the diabetes in pregnancy service at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust where she has responsibility for supporting women with diabetes before, during and after pregnancy. 

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In her previous role, she worked as a consultant in diabetes in pregnancy at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge (UK) and a group leader at the Institute of Metabolic Science Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge.

 

Her research has been supported by a Diabetes UK intermediate clinical fellowship and Future Leaders’ Award from the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes in association with the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

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Prof Meek’s research interests include diabetes, nutrition and obesity in women before, during and after pregnancy. She has contributed to the CONCEPTT trial, assessing real time continuous glucose monitoring in women with type 1 diabetes in pregnancy, which led to widespread changes in clinical care internationally. She is currently running a whole-diet randomised controlled trial to test a dietary intervention in gestational diabetes (DiGest trial) and an observational study assessing causes of gestational diabetes (OPHELIA study).