Name:	Dr Maha BARAKAT
Job Title:	Research and Medical Director
Section:	Investigative Medicine
Department:	Department of Medicine
Faculty:	Medicine
Campus:	Hammersmith
Telephone:	Contact Press Office on 020 7594 6701/2
E-Mail:	m.barakat@imperial.ac.uk
Web:	http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/m.barakat.html
Keywords:	Diabetes, particularly in the UAE and surrounding Gulf region
	Insulin resistance syndrome and associated cardiovascular disease
	Obesity
	Imperial College Diabetes Centre - http://www.icldc.ae