Klemen Dovc
Klemen Dovc serves as a consultant in paediatric endocrinology at the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University Medical Center - University Children's Hospital Ljubljana and as an associate professor at Chair of Paediatrics, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Under the mentorship of prof. Tadej Battelino he completed his PhD in 2017 with a thesis investigating automated insulin delivery (AID) in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and a Postdoctoral Clinical-Research Fellowship in Prof Hovorka’s Artificial Pancreas Group at the University of Cambridge, UK in 2018. As a member of DREAM consortium, he was involved in several in-patient and outpatient clinical trials with AID. His clinical and scientific activities focus on diabetes management with state-of-the-art technology, particularly continuous glucose monitoring and AID glucose control.
He has led and collaborated on several prospective and cohort studies with multiple publications in high-ranking journals.
Dr. Dovc is an active member of the national and international scientific communities, including EASD Training and Education Committee, ISPAD Advisory Board, and one of the co-founders of the ISPAD Young Researchers Community – the JENIOUS group, where he led and was involved with several projects and publications. He co-authored sections of the ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines related to diabetes management in school and management of hypoglycemia and is currently appointed as an associate editor for the 2024 - 2026 edition.
Dr. Dovc received the JDRF-ISPAD Research Fellowship Award in 2018 and was appointed as an expert at EU Commission Expert Panel for Medical Devices, Endocrinology & Diabetes Thematic Panel between 2020 and 2023. He collaborates on several publicly-funded research projects, and was a Slovenian National Research Agency Grant recipient in 2022. He volunteers with the Slovene pediatric diabetes patients’ association “Sladkorčki”.