David Cavan

Consultant Endocrinologist, Educator and Author

Dr David Cavan MD, FRCP is a Consultant Endocrinologist who worked for many years at the Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine centre, one of the leading diabetes centres in the UK.  During that time, he developed several self-management programmes for people with diabetes. In 2013, he moved to Brussels to work for three years as the Director of Policy and Programmes at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).  There he was responsible for overseeing a range of projects that addressed the needs of people with diabetes at a global level.  He returned to the UK in 2017 and now works part time at University Hospitals Dorset and at the London Diabetes Centre. He also oversees diabetes management programmes in different countries and runs training courses for health professionals internationally. He is a successful author, and his latest book ‘Busting the Diabetes Myth’, explaining how people can reverse type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, has just been published. This follows on from his previous books: ‘Take Control of Type 1 diabetes’, ‘Reverse your Diabetes’ and ‘The Low Carb Diabetes Cookbook.’