Areas of Expertise

Professor Druce performs a range of treatments, including:

• Pituitary replacement
• Adrenal replacement
• Overactive and Underactive thyroid treatment
• Endocrine Tumours
• Endocrine Hypertension

Some of the conditions she commonly treats are:

• Endocrine disorders
• Pituitary disorders
• Thyroid and parathyroid disorders
• Adrenal disease
• Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS / PCO)
• Infertility
• Menstrual irregularity
• Calcium disorders
• Neuroendocrinology
• Endocrine oncology including pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine and endocrine tumour syndromes.

About Professor Maralyn Druce

Professor Maralyn Druce is a Consultant Endocrinologist, with a clinical practice in both general and specialist endocrinology. She looks after patients with a wide range of conditions including thyroid, adrenal and pituitary disorders, as well as neuroendocrine tumours and complex syndromes. She is committed to a holistic approach to patient care and to ensuring that patients have a good understanding all of the options available to them for their management.

A keen educator, Professor Druce holds many teaching posts, including: Deputy Dean for Education and Head of Governance for the undergraduate MBBS and dental programmes at Barts and the London. She is also Associate Dean for undergraduates at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and both initiated and is director of the Postgraduate diploma / MSc programmes in Endocrinology QMUL, teaching students from six continents all around the globe.

She also dedicates her time to research and is regularly invited to speak at national and international lectures, on key topics in both endocrinology and in education.

Professor Maralyn Druce also works at Barts Health (Barts and the London Hospital). She graduated with a masters in natural sciences from Cambridge University in 1991, and completed her medical training in 1994, at University College London Medical School.

Professor Druce then went on to study diabetes, endocrinology and general internal medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital and Barts Hospital, including a Wellcome Trust clinical research training fellowship, which she undertook between 2002-06.

In 2006, Prof Druce then obtained her PhD in physiology under Professor Steve Bloom at Imperial College; her thesis focusing on gut hormones and their role in the peripheral and central control of energy homeostasis. This was followed closely by her being awarded the Chadburn Lectureship at Barts and the London School of Medicine, 2006-11.

Research Highlights

Professor Druce has a number of active clinical research interests; these include:

• The pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumours
• Factors affecting the production of catecholamines and metanephrines
• Endocrine effects of cancer therapies
• Gut hormones in the pathophysiology and treatment of obesity.

She has also been involved in several industry-sponsored clinical trials of novel pharmacological therapies for endocrine disease.