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Richard Lane is Ambassador and Immediate Past President of Diabetes UK, the UK's leading diabetes charity.

Richard, who has Type 1 diabetes, was one of the first people in the UK to receive islet cell transplants in 2005.

The surgery came after a long history of diabetes-related complications, including comas and severe hypoglycaemic episodes (hypos).

The transplants transformed Richard’s life and he has not had a serious hypo since his first operation.

He was the first person in the UK to completely come off insulin. This situation continued for about a year, but he had then to go back on to insulin. He contracted a viral infection from which some antibodies developed which were damaging his new beta cells, and now he has to supplement his natural insulin via the pump and count carbs again.

Richard, who formerly held the position of President at Diabetes UK, has been a great advocate for the charity. He has spent much of his free time travelling the country undertaking public speaking at local community meetings and conferences to raise awareness of the condition and the work of Diabetes UK.

Dr Lloyd Vincent is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Director of the Dialysis services at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals and Satellite centres, Bangalore, India.

He was formerly Associate Professor and Head of Nephrology at St John\'s Medical College, Bangalore, India.

In 1999, Dr Vincent was awarded the International Society of Nephrology Fellowship, to train in cadaver kidney transplantation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. He got a Masters Degree in Medical Informatics from The Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2001.

Dr.Vincent completed a clinical nephrology fellowship from the University of Toronto, Canada in 2006, during which period he received the “Marc Goldstein Clinician of the year award - 2005”. In 2007, he completed a renal transplant fellowship from the Multiorgan Transplant Unit, University of Toronto, Canada and was awarded the fellowship of the American Society of Transplantation.

His keen interest in nephrology and renal transplantation, informatics in healthcare, healthcare quality and the use of evidence in healthcare management led to the completion of a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Toronto in 2009. He is currently an accredited Canadian Healthcare Executive and awarded the CHE degree. In addition, in India he is also currently involved with the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH), a constituent board of Quality Council of India as an assessor.

His major interests and research publications have focused on renal transplantation, the various levels of prevention of diabetic renal disease, disease management in chronic care, use of quality in healthcare and also the use of information technology such as point of care devices for remote medical monitoring.

Dr Kumar is the Head of Division of Bariatric Medicine & Endocrinology at Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore.