Dr Pam Brown

After qualifying from Edinburgh University, Pam has been a GP in Swansea for more than 37 years and throughout that time she has been passionate about using nutrition and lifestyle coaching in diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. Building on her MSc in Nutritional Medicine and Diploma in Sport and Exercise Medicine, she has trained in Lifestyle Medicine, recently achieving the Diploma of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine/British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. She teaches this new specialty to medical students and GPs and facilitates programmes locally and with colleagues is exploring the use of Lifestyle Medicine in the NHS.

Alongside her role as a practising GP, Pam presents at educational meetings and writes about diabetes, obesity, and nutrition for primary care teams and the public. She is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes and Primary Care journal and Diabetes Distilled. Pam enjoys teaching and has been involved in developing and teaching diabetes, obesity, and rheumatology programmes for UK and international healthcare professionals at Bath University, University of Glamorgan, University of Leicester/BMJ Group and for the Primary Care Diabetes Society, RCGP, and other organisations. She has tutored on the University of Warwick/iHeed Diabetes Diploma course since 2018.

In her spare time, Pam grows fruit and vegetables on her allotment, experiments with new plant-based recipes, and works on her golf handicap.