UK educated, Dr Matthew Allum was trained at the world-renowned University of Oxford, King’s College London and Imperial College London Healthcare. He has an interest in obesity and metabolic medicine, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as expertise in thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary and adrenal disorders. His research on primary aldosteronism has made him a contributing author to the Hammersmith Endocrine Bible. Medical education has also featured prominently for Dr Allum and he is a regular teacher on MRCP courses, which enable junior doctors to specialise. Dr Allum moved from the UK to join ICLDC in 2016 and has been a member of the multidisciplinary team at the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Centre at the Zayed Sports City branch since 2017