Barbara Boucher
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Biography
Barbara J Boucher worked as a joint NHS and academic physician at the London Hospital, (later Barts & The London) and it's medical school, remaining research active after clinical retirement when she was made an honorary professor. Her main clinical activities were in acute internal medicine, diabetes care, and teaching, with research
carried out on a wide range of clinical metabolic problems, but focused especially on developing systems of diabetes care, the investigation of metabolic disorders, especially in diabetes, and working on vitamin D insufficiency and 'betel-chewing' as potential aetiological factors relevant to the onset of both metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, and she continues to produce peer reviewed publications