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Professor Maralyn Druce

Maralyn

Professor of Endocrine Medicine, Deputy Dean for Education (Postgraduate Taught Programmes) – Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry


Centre: Endocrinology

Email: m.r.druce@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 20 7882 8284
Website: www.postgrad.bartsendocrinology.co.uk

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1436-1969

Professor Maralyn Druce undertook undergraduate training at Christ's College, Cambridge University and completed her clinical training at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine in 1994. She completed her higher medical training in Diabetes, Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital and Barts Hospital. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust clinical research training fellowship and obtained a PhD in physiology in Professor Steve Bloom's laboratory in Imperial College, focusing on gut hormones and their role in the peripheral and central control of energy homeostasis.

Maralyn went on to be awarded the Chadburn Lectureship at Barts and the London School of Medicine and has remained here since then. She has a keen interest in teaching and completed her Masters in Medical Education (Dundee) in 2016. She is now Professor of Endocrine Medicine and Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at Barts Health NHS Trust. Her clinical interests and activities are focussed on specialist clinical endocrinology with a particular focus on multidisciplinary management of patients with neuroendocrine tumours and on women’s health with additional certification in menopause care.

Current QMUL roles include Deputy Dean for Education (Postgraduate Taught Programmes) and Head of Governance for the Undergraduate MBBS and Dental programmes in FMD. She is also Associate Dean for Undergraduates at the St Bartholomew’s Hospital site.

She has carried out a number of external roles including Chair of the Society for Endocrinology Public Engagement Committee, Chair of the Education and Training Committee for UKINETs, member of the exam board for the Royal College of Physicians Diabetes and Endocrinology exam, Editor in Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Case Reports and Clinician-in-Practice Chair for the Endocrine Society annual meeting.

She is currently Senior Editor of the Journal ‘Clinical Endocrinology’, leads the Society for Endocrinology annual training meeting ‘Clinical Update’ and is a member of the Endocrine Society nominations committee.

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