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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 470 9189
Email
ben.wheeler@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor / Paediatric Endocrinologist
Department
Department of Women's and Children's Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB(Otago) DCH PhD CCE FRACP
Research summary
Professor Ben Wheeler is a Paediatric Endocrinologist and Paediatrician working for the University of Otago and the Southern District Health Board. His research focuses on access to and use of new technologies for children and young people affected
Clinical
Children’s health, Paediatric endocrinology and diabetes

Research

Professor Ben Wheeler is a Paediatric Endocrinologist and Paediatrician working for the University of Otago and the Southern District Health Board.

His research focuses on access to and use of new technologies for children and young people affected by diabetes, as well as factors that impact on glycaemic control in diabetes. He also has a research interest in vitamin D and bone health during pregnancy, lactation, and infancy. He has a number of collaborations ongoing in these areas, and usually multiple clinical trials or studies running in these areas at any one time.

He is always looking for new collaborations and for new PhD and other research students to join his team.

Publications

Wheeler, B., Wiltshire, E., Boucsein, A., Crockett, H., de Lange, M., & Jefferies, C. (2024). Effects of 12-weeks FreeStyle Libre 2.0 in children with type 1 diabetes and elevated HBA1C: A multi-center randomized controlled trial. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 26(Suppl. 2), (pp. A-110). doi: 10.1089/dia.2024.2525.abstracts Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sergel-Stringer, O. T., Wheeler, B. J., Styles, S. E., Boucsein, A., Lever, C. S., Paul, R. G., Sampson, R., Watson, A., & de Bock, M. I. (2024). Acceptability and experiences of real-time continuous glucose monitoring in adults with type 2 diabetes using insulin: A qualitative study. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40200-024-01403-9 Journal - Research Article

Lomax, K. E., Taplin, C. E., Abraham, M. B., Smith, G. J., Haynes, A., Zomer, E., … de Bock, M. I., … and the Australasian Diabetes Data Network (ADDN) Study Group, including Wheeler, B. (2024). Improved glycemic outcomes with diabetes technology use independent of socioeconomic status in youth with type 1 diabetes [Brief report]. Diabetes Care, 47(4), 707-711. doi: 10.2337/dc23-2033 Journal - Research Other

Zhou, Y., Sardana, D., Kuroko, S., Haszard, J. J., de Bock, M. I., Weng, J., Jefferies, C., & Wheeler, B. J. (2024). Comparing the glycaemic outcomes between real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rt-CGM) and intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM) among adults and children with type 1 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Diabetic Medicine, 41(3), e15280. doi: 10.1111/dme.15280 Journal - Research Article

Bowden, N., Dixon, R., Anderson, V., de Bock, M., Boucsein, A., Kewene-Edwards, M., Gibb, S., Kokaua, J., Palmer, O., Paul, R., Taylor, B., Vu, H., & Wheeler, B. J. (2024). Associations between type 1 diabetes and educational outcomes: An Aotearoa/New Zealand nationwide birth cohort study using the Integrated Data Infrastructure. Diabetologia, 67, 62-73. doi: 10.1007/s00125-023-06026-y Journal - Research Article

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