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Dr. Rury Holman
Dr. Rury Holman is currently Professor of Diabetic Medicine at the University of Oxford. In the past he has served as Academic Chairman of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM); Director of the Diabetes Trials Unit; and an Honorary Consultant Physician to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. He was a joint recipient of the prestigious ADA Banting and Best medal in 1999. He divides his time between clinical care of patients, teaching, and researching diabetes prevention, prevention of complications, and appropriate treatment of type 2 diabetes. He has designed and run a large number of randomized, controlled outcome trials including UKPDS, FHS, EDIT, DREAM and ADOPT. Professor Holman, who has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, is currently co-chair of the NAVIGATOR trial, and chief investigator of the 4-T trial, the Acarbose Cardiovascular Evaluation (ACE) trial and the UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), the latter of which published highly-awaited 10-year follow up results in the New England Journal of Medicine in September with results presented by Dr. Holman at EASD 2008.