Kim Donaghue MBBS, PhD, FRACP
Professor, The University of Sydney; Senior Staff Endocrinologist, Institute of Endocrinology & Diabetes, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, AustraliaDr. Donaghue is Conjoint Professor in Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney and Senior Staff Endocrinologist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW), where she was CoHead of Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes (2010-2016); and Head of the Diabetes Service (2004 -2010).
She is immediate Past President of ISPAD (2020-2021); and was APEG President 2001-2003. She was Foundation Chair of Education for the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) (2006-2010) and received the APEG Norman Wettenhall Award for Research and Innovation in 2015. She was a Senior Editor for the ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines (2004-09); and currently leads the UpToDate module on Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes.
She has published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. Her major research focus has been the pathogenesis and intervention for diabetes complications. She serves on the Steering Committee for two international interventional studies to reduce complications: the Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes Cardiorenal Protection Trial (ADDIT), and the FAME-1 Eye Trial. She is currently leading a data linkage project on adult outcomes of childhood-onset diabetes.