Rachel Rowe

Biography

Rachel Rowe trained at the University of Nottingham and was appointed as a Consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospital of South Manchester following research fellowships in autoimmunity in Type 1 diabetes in Seattle, St Bartholomew’s Hospital London and Oxford, and senior registrar posts at Leicester hospitals. Her clinical responsibilities include diabetes education, young adult diabetes service, transition from paediatric to adult services and the Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes (CFRD) Service. Dr Rowe has a special interest in CFRD. She started the CFRD service at the Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit in 1999. With 470 adult CF patients this is one of the largest CF units in the UK and has a 22 bedded CF ward attached. Dr Rowe runs clinics and ward rounds, seeing both inpatients and outpatients on a weekly basis, and has over 2000 patient years of clinical experience in the management of CFRD across the spectrum of the condition from diagnosis to end-stage disease, covering issues including steroid related diabetes, management of diabetes during enteral feeding, reactive hypoglycaemia and complications in CF and CFRD. Dr Rowe was a member of the 2004 CFRD guidelines group and co-author of the chapter on CFRD in the most recent edition of Hodson and Geddes “Cystic Fibrosis”.

Research Interest

 Diabetes