Theresa is Nurse Consultant in Diabetes at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care at Birmingham City University. She co-leads and teaches on post-registration, BSc and MSc courses on diabetes.

Her work includes strategic planning, developing, leading, managing, measuring and maintaining evidence based clinical diabetes nursing services within the Trust which covers four hospital sites.

She has held positions representing diabetes nursing on national and international level and is currently on the editorial board of Medicine Matters – Diabetes, a contemporary online resource for members of the interprofessional team.

She has published widely and presented extensively and widely at diabetes conferences.