Russel Viner

Russell Viner is an academic paediatrician and adolescent physician at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London. He set up the first Adolescent Medicine Service in the UK jointly between Great Ormond St Hospital for Children and University College London Hospitals, and works clinically in adolescent diabetes and endocrinology and obesity. Viner works as a consultant on adolescent health for the Departments of Health and of Education in the UK, and for the WHO internationally. His research interests focus on the implications of adolescent development for physical and mental health in adolescence, particularly around obesity, health risk behaviours (alcohol, smoking and drug use), health services for young people, and clinical management of obesity and diabetes in children and young people. He has over 100 published papers in international journals and lifetime grant income of >£3 million.