Dr Dawn qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in 1987 and spent several years working in various hospital specialities during which time she became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians.

In 1995 she moved into General Practice and continues to work as an NHS GP today. She is passionate about promoting healthy longevity and alongside General Practice, she has set up and run weight management and women’s health clinics.

Dawn has also worked in the media for the last 20 years. She is perhaps best known as a presenter on Channel 4’s BAFTA award winning ‘Embarrassing Bodies’, which has been sold to 120 different territories and continues to be watched by millions today. She has worked extensively across a variety of other live and pre-recorded television and radio shows and for many years was resident GP to ITV’s daytime show ‘This Morning’.

She has authored 12 books and continues to write regular columns for women’s magazines. Dawn’s favourite book, and the one she is most proud of, is titled ‘Live Well to 101’. In it she looks at all the factors that influence healthy longevity and meets centenarians living fulfilled lives who share their secrets with her. She is passionate about empowering people to adopt healthy lifestyle changes. 

Dawn is also a public speaker and has delivered keynote speeches all over the world and hosted numerous award ceremonies. She is also an experienced meeting facilitator, working virtually, in person and in combination hybrid meetings. She has lots of experience working with simultaneous translation and is just as happy facilitating a meeting for 50 as she is for 1500.

Bethany Kelly currently is a multi-award winning Diabetes Specialist Nurse. She works as the Lead Community Clinical Diabetes Specialist Nurse in Wiltshire. She completed her MSc in Diabetes Practice with Swansea University in 2021 and is a non-medical prescriber. Bethany became a Queens nurse in 2024 joining the national Queens Nursing Institute. Since working with her team, she has won the Quality in Care Diabetes Insulin Excellence Award in 2024.

Bethany became a Director of the Diabetes Specialist Nursing Forum UK in 2018. As part of this team, Bethany received the “Healthcare Professional of the Year 2018 award” at the Quality in Care Diabetes Awards. The team were also finalists for the Health Service Journal award for Diabetes Initiative of the Year in 2019.

Bethany is the Senior clinical tutor and module lead for Community Diabetes module, on the MSc in Diabetes Practice at Swansea University.  

In 2021, she went on to win Collaborative Team of the Year and Heroes of the Year at the Quality in Care Diabetes Awards for her work in creating @_diabetes101; a social media-based account designed to support people living with diabetes during COVID19 with accredited information

Bethany has had multiple pieces of work about diabetes care published both as a coauthor and on her own. She has been involved in many international and national speaking events such as Diabetes UK Conference, Diabetes Professional Care Conference. She regularly teaches on a local and national scale working alongside Pitstop as a trainer as well.

In her spare time she sits on the HCP advisory boards for both charities; DRWF and Action4Diabetes.

Bethany’s’ interests lay in working with younger adults, type 1 diabetes, hypoglycaemia, early onset type 2 diabetes, obesity and diabetes technology.