David Hopkins is a consultant physician and diabetologist based in London. He is a Director and Clinical Academic Group lead for the newly inaugurated Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity at King’s Health Partners, an academic health science centre comprising King’s College London, King’s College Hospital, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals and South London & Maudsley NHS trust.

He runs NHS diabetes clinics at King’s College Hospital and also for Bromley Healthcare in Beckenham and Croydon and has particular clinical interests in insulin pump therapy, management of advanced diabetes complications and in support of bariatric surgery and novel procedures for weight management in type 2 diabetes.

He trained in clinical diabetes in Liverpool and London and has held consultant posts at Central Middlesex Hospital and King’s College Hospital where he has been clinical director since 2010 and joint clinical academic group lead since 2014.