David Russell-jones MBBS, MD, FRCP

David Russell-Jones qualified from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital medical school in 1985. He did his SHO training in the ‘golden circle’ of famous London postgraduate institutions, including the Hammersmith, Brompton and Queens Square, before returning to St Thomas’ as registrar. He performed an MD under the direction of Professor Peter Sonksen.

He was appointed lecturer at Guy’s and St Thomas’ followed by Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician in 1994. In 1998 he was appointed Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Surrey and Consultant Physician at the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he runs a full specialist diabetes and endocrine service for patients, including a large pituitary clinic.

Professor Russell-Jones raised £2 million and built an innovative ambulatory care and research centre, called the cedar centre, for patients with diabetes and endocrine disorders. He persuaded Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (of the Eden project and Waterloo International fame) to design the centre which was opened by Prince Andrew in 2005. The cedar centre was then donated to the NHS.

Professor Russell-Jones won substantial funding from the Wolfston Foundation to set up a ‘state of the art’ mass spectrometry facility at the University of Surrey (Wolfson transitional research laboratories) of which he is Clinical Director. This unit attracts substantial research grant funding, much from abroad, to use stable isotopes to understand physiological processes or effects of novel drug compounds.

His research interests include the use of stable isotopes to understand peptide hormone physiology. He has published in excess of 100 peer reviewed papers on insulin, IGF-1 and growth hormone, he has also been asked to review for the world’s top Diabetes and Endocrine journals and wrote a lead article for the BMJ. A full list of his publications can be found on the PubMed website (link below).