Our Team | Pamela Durant, Managing Director

Pamela Durant

Founder & Managing Director

Pam Durant is a diabetes thought leader, entrepreneur, healthcare expert and wellness coach. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Diapoint – The Place for People Touched By Diabetes.

Her successful healthcare management career was turned upside down when her 20-month-old son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes over a decade ago. Not only did this challenge Pam as a parent, it also challenged everything that she believed and understood about healthcare and the provider-patient relationship. As she went on to tackle the steep learning curve of diabetes to support her son to grow and thrive with this condition, she soon realized the great need for change in healthcare and in diabetes management.

She was inspired to create Diapoint, a company that focuses on people with diabetes through events, education, advocacy and products to support them.

Sarper Tanli, MD, PhD

Executive Board Member

Dr. Sarper Tanli has over 25 years of experience in medical & healthcare management, planning, development and operations at Methodist, Harvard Medical International, Bayindir Healthcare Services and others. He holds an MD in Medicine, a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Istanbul University and a Ph.D. degree in Healthcare Management from Marmara University.

He is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer of Manzil Health Care Services. He has extensive experience in healthcare planning, development, operations and informatics on an international scale. He is also an alumni of the GCC Board of Directors Institute.

In addition to his vast medical experience, Dr. Tanli also has a son who has Type 1 Diabetes.

Dr Asma Deeb

Medical Advisor

Dr. Asma Deeb is a Consultant and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at Shaikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi. Her training as a physician began in the UK in 1991. Dr. Deeb obtained an MD degree in Growth Hormone Gene Expression in 2002 from the University of Newcastle. She was appointed as a Clinical Lecturer in Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Cambridge between 2001 and 2005 and obtained a CCST in Paediatric Endocrinology. Dr. Deeb has a special interest in disorders of sexual differentiation, use of technology in the management of children with diabetes and genetics of diabetes mellitus in which she has published in Peer Review Journals.

Her work and dedication to children with diabetes is endless. She is one of the Founders and the President of the Arab Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (ASPED). In this role she established the main strategies for ASPED in the UAE and throughout the region, and she continues to educate and mentor others interested in the profession. Her work has enabled ASPED to become part of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and host the international meeting in Abu Dhabi in 2020.

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