大卫·卡万医生（Dr. David Cavan, MD FRCP）是一名糖尿病内科医生，对该疾病的自我管理特别感兴趣。他曾在伯恩茅斯糖尿病和内分泌中心担任顾问医生17年，负责为1型（BERTIE）和2型（Focus）糖尿病患者制定教育计划，并帮助制定开始胰岛素泵治疗的方法。他也是国际糖尿病基金会（IDF）的政策和方案主任。卡万博士与糖尿病合作出版了许多书。关于2型糖尿病的逆转和1型糖尿病的控制。
Dr David Cavan is a diabetes physician with a special interest in self-management of the disease. He was previously a Consultant Physician at the Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine Centre for 17 years, where he oversaw the development of education programmes for people with both type 1 (BERTIE) and type 2 (Focus) diabetes and also helped to develop an approach for people starting insulin pump therapy. He was also Director of Policy and Programmes at the International Diabetes Foundation (IDF). Dr Cavan has released a number of books, in partnership with Diabetes.co.uk, regarding the reversal of type 2 and control of type 1 diabetes.
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我是一位经验丰富的糖尿病医生，在糖尿病管理的所有领域都有专业知识。我的特别兴趣是支持改变生活方式以管理和逆转 2 型糖尿病，以及 1 型糖尿病的强化管理，包括胰岛素泵治疗。我积极推动自我管理，并密切参与糖尿病患者教育计划的制定。我是四本关于糖尿病自我管理的书籍的作者。
我于 1985 年从南安普顿医学院获得资格，在担任过各种初级医院职位后，我在伯明翰大学担任了三年医学研究委员会培训研究员，从事研究以帮助解开 1 型糖尿病背后的复杂遗传学。虽然令人着迷，但事实是我并不特别适合实验室研究，我得出的结论是，我想将精力投入到帮助解决糖尿病患者现在面临的问题上，而不是研究可能需要几年时间的潜在遗传学才能产生真正的结果。
在伦敦圣托马斯医院工作了三年后，我于 1996 年搬到伯恩茅斯，在伯恩茅斯糖尿病和内分泌中心担任顾问医师。我在那里呆了 17 年，与一支不可思议的团队一起工作。在那段时间里，我对 1 型和 2 型糖尿病患者的自我管理产生了兴趣和专业知识，并监督了为 1 型糖尿病 (BERTIE) 和 2 型糖尿病 (Focus) 患者制定的教育计划。我还帮助开发了一种结构化的教育方法来管理开始胰岛素泵治疗的人，以及第一个（我认为仍然是唯一的）针对 1 型糖尿病患者的开放访问在线计划，最近重新启动为 BertieOnline。
在此期间，我担任了英国糖尿病协会的多个委员会成员，并在 2000 年至 2004 年期间担任英国糖尿病协会教育和心理社会护理部门的主席。在这个职位上，我为国家糖尿病服务框架的发展做出了贡献。随后，我加入了专家联络小组，该小组与国家糖尿病临床主任合作改善英格兰的糖尿病服务。
2010 年左右，我开始探索低碳水化合物饮食对 1 型和 2 型糖尿病患者的潜力，这构成了我目前工作的基础或大部分。到 2013 年，我已准备好迎接新的挑战，并离开英国在布鲁塞尔的国际糖尿病联盟 (IDF) 担任政策和项目主任三年。 IDF 是一个代表 230 多个国家糖尿病协会的全球联合会。在我的角色中，我负责监督一系列项目和计划，以满足全球糖尿病患者的各种需求。
2014 年，我出版了我的第一本书《逆转您的糖尿病：控制 2 型糖尿病的分步计划》，旨在为 2 型糖尿病患者提供他们改变生活方式以更好地控制他们所需的信息。条件，并可能扭转它。紧随其后的是 2016 年的“逆转糖尿病饮食”，提供 60 种食谱来帮助人们更好地管理 2 型糖尿病。 2018 年，我出版了《控制 1 型糖尿病》，并与艾玛·波特一起出版了《低碳水化合物糖尿病食谱》。
自 2016 年以来，我在英国工作，将我的时间分配给临床工作（在私人伦敦医疗诊所和 Poole NHS 糖尿病中心）、项目工作（目前在百慕大和肯尼亚）、专业培训和写作。
我的目标是通过支持有助于改善糖尿病服务的项目来减少糖尿病对患有或有患糖尿病风险的个人以及对社区的影响。
I am an experienced diabetes physician and have expertise in all areas of diabetes management. My particular interests are in supporting lifestyle change to manage and reverse type 2 diabetes, and in intensive management of type 1 diabetes including insulin pump therapy. I actively promote self-management and have been closely involved in the development of education programmes for people with diabetes. I am the author of four books on self-management of diabetes.
I qualified from Southampton Medical School in 1985 and after a variety of junior hospital posts, I spent three years as a Medical Research Council Training Fellow at the University of Birmingham, undertaking studies to help unravel the complex genetics behind type 1 diabetes. While fascinating, the truth was that I was not particularly suited to laboratory research, and I concluded that I wanted to devote my energies to helping solve the problems faced by people living with diabetes now, rather than research the underlying genetics that might take some years to yield real results.
After working at St Thomas’ Hospital in London for three years, I moved to Bournemouth in 1996 to work as a Consultant Physician at the Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine Centre. I stayed there for 17 years, working with an incredible team. During that time I developed my interest and expertise in self-management for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and oversaw the development of education programmes for people with type 1 diabetes (BERTIE) and for type 2 diabetes (Focus). I also helped develop a structured educational approach to the management of people starting insulin pump therapy, as well as the first (and I think still the only) open access online programme for people with type 1 diabetes, recently relaunched as BertieOnline.
During this time I sat on a number of committees at Diabetes UK and from 2000-2004 was the Chair of the Education and Psychosocial Care Section of Diabetes UK. In this role I contributed to the development of the National Service Framework for Diabetes. I subsequently sat on the Specialist Liaison group that worked with the National Clinical Director for Diabetes on improving diabetes services in England.
Around 2010, I began to explore the potential of low carbohydrate diets in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and this forms the basis or much of my current work. By 2013, I was ready for a new challenge and left the UK to work for three years as the Director of Policy and Programmes at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in Brussels. The IDF is a global federation that represents over 230 national diabetes associations. In my role, I was responsible for overseeing a range of projects and programmes that addressed the various needs of people with diabetes at a global level.
In 2014 I published my first book, ‘Reverse your diabetes: the step by step plan to take control of type 2 diabetes’, aimed at providing people with type 2 diabetes with the information they need to make lifestyle changes to achieve better control of their condition, and possibly to reverse it. This was followed in 2016 by ‘Reverse your diabetes diet’, providing 60 recipes to help people better manage type 2 diabetes. In 2018 I published ‘Take control of type 1 diabetes’ and, together with Emma Porter, ‘The low carb diabetes cookbook’.
Since 2016 I am based in the UK and divide my time between clinical work (at the private London Medical clinic and the Poole NHS Diabetes Centre), project work (currently in Bermuda and Kenya), professional training and writing.
My aim is to reduce the impact of diabetes for individuals who have, or are risk of developing diabetes, as well as on communities by supporting projects that help improve diabetes services.
