Professor Brian Frier

Honorary Professor of Diabetes, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Professor Frier is Honorary Professor of Diabetes in the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh. He was previously Consultant Physician in general medicine and diabetes at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1987-2012 and at the Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, from 1982-1987.  Hypoglycaemia, with relevance to diabetes, has been his principal research interest for 40 years, and he has published extensively in this field.   He served as the Chairman of the UK National Advisory Panel on Driving and Diabetes from 2001-2012 and was Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 2008-2012.