In this episode of Dia-logue: The Diapoint Podcast, Pamela Durant is joined by Professor Nandu KS Thalange, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Paediatrics, for an accessible conversation about the future of diabetes care.
With more than 35 years of clinical and research experience across the UK and UAE, Professor Thalange brings both a specialist paediatric perspective and first-hand experience of the research that helped advance modern basal insulin options for children and young people.
Together, they discuss the changing diabetes landscape: from continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pumps, newer insulin therapies, stem cell research and the promise and practical limits of some of these.
They explore how innovation can support safer, more personalised care, while also recognising that technology only fulfils its potential when people and families have the education, support, access, and confidence to use it well.
This conversation is for people living with diabetes, parents and caregivers, healthcare professionals, and anyone curious about where diabetes treatment may be heading next.
Please note that this is an informative discussion and not individual medical advice. Anything that you hear in this episode or any other Dia-logue: The Diapoint Podcast episode should not be considered individual medical advice. Please ask your qualified physician if you have any questions about this or other health-related content.
Professor Nandu KS Thalange is a Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Al Qassimi Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Sharjah and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Paediatrics at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences. His career spans more than 35 years across the United Kingdom and the UAE, with expertise in paediatric diabetes, growth and puberty, obesity, endocrine genetics, and skeletal dysplasia.
Professor Thalange was Chief Investigator for two landmark multinational trials that contributed to worldwide paediatric approval of insulin detemir, known as Levemir, and insulin degludec, known as Tresiba—two important advances in basal insulin therapy for children and young people with type 1 diabetes. He has also led major paediatric endocrine and diabetes services in both the UK and UAE, helped introduce insulin-pump care, and established comprehensive services for diabetes, obesity, lipids, and endocrine conditions.
Previously, he founded and led the paediatric endocrinology service at Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital, building it from one consultant to a multidisciplinary team of seven consultants and three specialists. His work also includes pioneering AI-assisted bone-age analysis in the UAE, founding the country’s first paediatric endocrinology fellowship programme, contributing to the identification of two novel genetic disorders, and establishing specialist multidisciplinary achondroplasia clinics in both the UK and the UAE.
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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.
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