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HEAL.med
HEAL.med is a Not-For-Profit Social Enterprise in the form of a Community Interest Company which aims to bring innovative education to people who have had a lifechanging diagnosis in the form of diabetes, type 1 in particular.
We provide education and training to assist in managing this diagnosis to both hospitals and patients.
ABOUT US
Lee Paxman Clarke
Email: lee@heal-med.co.uk
Lee Paxman-Clarke is an award-winning entrepreneur and designer. In 2022 Lee was the winner of the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Award at the Real Entrepreneur Awards to complement HEAL.med’s multiple awards.
Lee’s background is professional product design and higher education, he has years of experience working at well-respected design agencies such as PreistmanGoode in London and the Design Unit based at De Montfort University.
As one of the co-founders and directors of HEAL.med CIC, he aims to build upon the exceptional education that Deapp has to offer and innovate new methods of education delivery for people with type-1 diabetes.
Sarah Lockwood Lee
Primary email: sarah@heal-med.co.uk
Secondary email: sarah.lockwood-lee@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Sarah Lockwood-Lee is a Co-founder of HEAL.med and its Head of Operations and Education. Sarah has worked for the Children’s hospital in Leicester for 24 years and works as a Deapp project Officer. She has been working closely with children, young adults and their families helping to deliver diabetes education in a fun and exciting way. She has been instrumental in the development of Deapp (diabetes education application) games and resources, providing training to health care professionals across the UK on the delivery of Deapp. Sarah is also the founder of the children’s diabetes choir, the Highs & Lows. She has been running this for children who have or live with someone who has type 1 diabetes in her own time for the past eight years. In 2019 Sarah was awarded a Caring at its best award from the University Hospital of Leicester as well as winning the QIC (Quality in Care) award for Outstanding Educator in Diabetes.
Meet the Team
James Greening
Email: james@heal-med.co.uk
Dr. James Greening, MBBS, MRCPCH, is the lead Children’s diabetes consultant at Leicester Royal Infirmary in the UK. He is also the clinical lead for research for the Children’s hospital in Leicester. He has looked after children with diabetes for 22 years working with colleagues. He trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital London and is now leading the academic and clinical unit at Leicester Royal Infirmary. It is a large unit and is very research active. It is from this standpoint that he and his team have developed the Deapp education program, combining their understanding of diabetes from both an academic and clinical point of view. James has lead the Deapp program over the last five years from its inception to now its successful launch in the UK, co-founding HEAL.med. He and his team are now excited to bring Deapp to the Friends for Life conference to share our experience.