Professor Simmons, MA, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP, Professor of Medicine, Western Sydney University and Head of Department, Endocrinology, Campbelltown Hospital, NSW, Australia, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Visiting Professor, University of Örebro. Professor Simmons is a diabetes clinician and clinical epidemiologist who has undertaken significant community diabetes work in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and the US over the last 27 years attempting to improve the care and lives of people with diabetes. Professor Simmons previously co-chaired the Diabetes UK Diabetes Health professional education working group and is the clinical lead for the Cambridgeshire Diabetes Education Project, the national pilot for how we use diabetes health professional competency frameworks in clinical practice. He is a former President of the Australasian diabetes in Pregnancy Society Helmut Wenzel, MAS, Emeritus, Head of Scientific Reimbursement Management Department in Diabetes Care, Roche Diagnostics. Helmut Wenzel