Professor David Ray appointed head of Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Wolfson Governing body Fellow Professor David Ray is set to become the new head of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Chair of the OCDEM Management Board.  

Professor Ray is a world expert on the impacts of circadian mechanisms on the body and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College. He originally trained in general internal medicine in north-west England and obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester, spending time at UCLA in the 1990s. He became a Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2005 and has since become a Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oxford, as well as the Co-Director of the Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute and an executive member Oxford Metabolic Health. He joined Wolfson in 2020. 

Professor Ray said he is “very much looking forward to taking up the Headship of OCDEM, offering leadership and support to everyone in the department. I am particularly keen to continue to embed OCDEM securely within the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, and to further develop OCDEM’s academic links across the University with those working in our field.” 

Professor Ray recently gave Wolfson’s annual Alumni Lecture – exploring sleep and the twenty-first century’s “epidemic of exhaustion” – which is now available to view on our YouTube channel. The College congratulates David on his well-deserved appointment at OCDEM.