Stephen Shalet


Professor Stephen Michael Shalet FRCP is an endocrinologist, and a former professor at the University of Manchester

Early life

He was born in Bedford, where his mother had been evacuated from London. His father was a GP in the East End of London, and serving as an army doctor. At the age of nine he moved to Stoke Newington. He attended Westminster City Grammar School. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, since 1990 the Royal London Hospital, qualifying in 1969.

Career

He moved to Manchester in 1974 as a research fellow, becoming a consultant four years later. He retired in 2005. He was on the Strategic Planning Committee of the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Personal life

He now lives in rural Derbyshire, in the High Peak. His first wife Caroline died in 2002. He subsequently married Diana Greenfield in 2019. He has a son, Daniel and daughter, Rachael.