Dr Jon Pinkney
Consultant Physician BSc, MB BS, MD, FRCP. Consultant Physician, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.Senior Lecturer, Peninsula Medical School , Universities of Exeter and Plymouth .
Jon Pinkney is Consultant Physician in diabetes, endocrinology and general medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in Truro.
Obesity is his principal special clinical and research interest. He graduated from the University of London in 1985, and trained in diabetes and endocrinology at St. Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals , Whittington Hospital and University College London.
He gained his MD from University College London, and was Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Bristol, Wellcome Travelling Fellow at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
His main clinical interests are the treatment of morbid obesity and obesity in people with diabetes, including the use of antiobesity drugs and bariatric surgery. He teaches and talks widely on obesity and diabetes and has a major interest in raising the profile of obesity as an important health issue and in improving the treatment of people with obesity.
