Spiros Fourlanos is a consultant endocrinologist at the Royal Melbourne and Northern Hospitals. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1995 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Spiros completed a PhD entitled ‘Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA): New Clinical, Immunogenetic and Metabolic Perspectives’ at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research supervised by Professors Len Harrison and Peter Colman. Spiros’ clinical research interests include investigating the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes and interventions to preserve beta-cell function as well as developing new models of care for hospital inpatients and outpatients with diabetes.