Paul M Stewart

Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Paul Stewart is Professor of Medicine and joint Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. He is Associate Dean for Clinical Research at the Medical School of the University of Birmingham.

His research specialties include reproductive endocrinology, steroid hormone metabolism, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids and endocrine hypertension. Specifically, Professor Stewart is head of a research group exploring the hypothesis that altered cortisol metabolism might underpin diverse diseases including hypertension, obesity-glucose tolerance, glaucoma, malignancy, bone disease and problems in fetal life such as fetal growth restriction. His group has particular expertise in corticosteroids and 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. As a clinical endocrinologist and Consultant Physician, he is actively involved in acute medicine and the management of a spectrum of patients with endocrinopathies including pituitary and adrenal disease, infertility, PCOS, neuroendocrine tumours and endocrine hypertension.

Professor Stewart is actively involved in the Society for Endocrinology, the USA Endocrine Society (Clinical Chair 2004, Council since 2005) and the International Society for Endocrinology (Secretary General). Professor Stewart has previously served as a member of the Clinical Interest Group of the Wellcome Trust and now serves on committees for the MRC (CRAG, Clinical Panel), Wellcome Trust (Chair, Physiological Sciences strategy committee) and BHF (Chairs and programme grants committee). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Diabetes & Endocrinology > Adrenal Cortex (since 16 November 2005)

Paul M Stewart is a Section Head for Adrenal Cortex, part of the DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.