Stephanie Amiel

Dame Stephanie Anne Amiel, Lady Alberti (born 17 October 1954) is a British physician and academic, specialising in type 1 diabetes. From 1995 to 2018, she was the R. D. Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London. She has also been an honorary consultant at King's College Hospital since 1995.

Early life and education Amiel was born on 17 October 1954 in Farnborough, Kent, England. She was educated at Baston School for Girls, an all-girls private school in Kent. She studied at Guy's Hospital School of Medicine, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1975 and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degrees in 1978. She later undertook research towards a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree which she completed in 1988. At Yale she undertook research in diabetes under professors William V. Tamborlane and Robert Stanley Sherwin. She then returned to England, and was a research fellow and honorary senior registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London from 1986 to 1989. She is also a consultant physician to the diabetes services at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In 2018, she stepped down from the R. D. Lawrence Chair to become Professor of Diabetes Research. She then retired from full-time academia in 2021 and made emeritus professor.

Amiel's research continues to be focused on type 1 diabetes.

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