
Professor Peter Trainer
Professor Peter Trainer qualified in Edinburgh and continued his higher training in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London, Aberdeen, Utrecht (Netherlands) and Portland (Oregon, USA). He was a senior lecturer at Bart’s in London before becoming a consultant endocrinologist at the Christie Hospital (Manchester) in 1998 which he combines with being the Clinical Director of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and chairman of Bioscientifica.
Professor Trainer is an active leader in the international endocrine community. He has served on the senior executive committees of the Society for Endocrinology (UK), the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE). He chaired the programme organising committee for ECE2011 in Rotterdam and the clinical programme of ENDO2007 in Toronto. In 2014 ESE presented him with a ‘special recognition award’ for his contribution to the Society and in particular education. His prime areas of research are diseases of the pituitary and adrenal glands, particularly Cushing’s syndrome and acromegaly, which have resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications.