Instructor

Douglas Twenefour is a Specialist Dietitian with over 14 years of clinical experience. He is the Deputy Head of Care at Diabetes UK, and an Associate Lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Douglas was the co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) joint working group investigating lower carbohydrate diets for adults with type 2 diabetes. With a passion for developing evidence-based guidelines and consensus, he co-chaired the 2018 Diabetes UK nutrition guidelines working group. He is also a member of an expert group of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), Diabetes UK and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) currently developing an international consensus on the definition and interpretation of remission in type 2 diabetes.

As a professional member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA), Douglas is also a committee member of the BDA’s Diabetes Specialist Group.