Newcastle University

Qualifications

MD(Hon) University of Yaounde, Cameroon (1996)
MPhil University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2002)
Diploma in Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Paris (2002)
PhD, Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Paris (2005)

Memberships

Board Member, International Diabetes Epidemiology Group 2003-2006
Board Member, ALFEDIAM (Association de langue francaise pour l'etude du diabete et des maladies metaboliques)2004-2008
Pan-African Diabetes Study Group
American Diabetes Assocation
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
European Association for the Study of Diabetes

Honours and Awards

Young Investigator Award, French Diabetes Association - 2002

Languages

Fluent English and French

Research Interests

Diabetes and other non communicable diseases with special interest on Africa and populations in transition

Other Expertise

Metabolism / physiology and Pathophysiology
Clinical Endocrinology

Current Work

- Developement and validation of screening strategies for gestational diabetes in sub Saharan Africa
- Improvement of quality of diabetes care in sub Saharan Africa
- Pathophysiology of atypical diabetes in migrant and autochtonous African origin populations

Future Research

- Haemoglobinopathies and Diabetes
- Relation between selected infectious diseases and non communicable diseases in populations in transition

Postgraduate Supervision

I am currently the main supervisor of 2 PhD students and co-supervisor of 1 PhD

Esteem Indicators

Invited speaker at the 2006 International Diabetes Federation congress (Topics: Ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes, Measurement of insulin sensitivity in Africa)
Invited Speaker at the 2009 World Diabetes Congress (Montreal, Canada)
Invited Speaker at the World Health Promotion Conference (Nairobi, Kenya)
Invited speaker at several regional scientific conferences in the field of Diabetes
Keynote address (opening lecture) at the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group congress 2006 South Africa (Diabetes in Africa)
Member of the Steering committee of the Global Diabetes Alliance
Member of the steering committee of the African Diabetes Research Consortium
Member of the International Expert Committee for the Diagnosis of Diabetes (American Diabetes Association) - 2008/2009
Member of the World Health Organisation Consultation for the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes since 2009
Member of the World Health Organisation Expert Committee for the revision of Diagnostic Criteria of Gestational Diabetes 2010
Associate Editor - Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Member of the Editorial Board of the the Journals Diabetes and Metabolism, Medecine des Maladies Metaboliques, International Diabetes Monitor
Member of International Advisory Board for the DAWN - 2 study

Funding

International Cardiovascular Health Initiative (IC Health) - 60,000 USD in 2004 (Development grant to study stroke incidence and prevention in Africa)

World Diabetes Foundation - 350,000 Euros in 2008 to study Gestational Diabetes in sub Saharan Africa

International Diabetes Federation - 400,000 USD for translational research in the field of diabetes care in sub Saharan Africa

Projects

• BRIDGES
  Project Leader(s): Eugene Sobngwi
• Improving screening, management and outcome of gestational diabetes in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa (i-SMOG)
  Project Leader(s): Eugene Sobngwi, Ruth Bell

Undergraduate Teaching

I am involved in teaching Medicine in Community to MBBS

Postgraduate Teaching

MSc in Public Health
Module leader for Fundamentals of Research in 2009-2010
Module leader for Applied Epidemiology in 2010-2011

• Sobngwi E, Boudou P, Mauvais-Jarvis F, Leblanc H, Velho G, Vexiau P, Porcher R, Hadjadj S, Pratley R, Tataranni PA, Calvo F, Gautier JF. Effect of a diabetic environment in utero on predisposition to type 2 diabetes. The Lancet 2003, 361(9372), 1861-1865.
• Sobngwi E, Choukem SP, Agbalika F, Blondeau B, Fetita L-S, Lebbe C, Thiam D, Cattan P, Larghero J, Foufelle F, Ferre P, Vexiau P, Calvo F, Gautier J-F. Ketosis-prone type 2 diabetes mellitus and human herpesvirus 8 infection in sub-Saharan Africans. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 2008, 299(23), 2770-2776.
• Mbanya JCN, Motala AA, Sobngwi E, Assah FK, Enoru ST. Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet 2010, 375(9733), 2254-2266.
• Sobngwi E, Mbanya J-C, Unwin NC, Porcher R, Kengne A-P, Fezeu L, Minkoulou EM, Tournoux C, Gautier J-F, Aspray TJ, Alberti K. Exposure over the life course to an urban environment and its relation with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in rural and urban Cameroon. International Journal of Epidemiology 2004,33 4 769-776.
• Sobngwi E, Gautier JF, Kevorkian JP, Villette JM, Riveline JP, Zhang S, Vexiau P, Leal SM, Vaisse C, Mauvais-Jarvis F. High Prevalence of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency without Gene Mutation Suggests a Novel Genetic Mechanism Predisposing to Ketosis-Prone Diabetes. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2005,90 8 4446-4451.
• Sobngwi E, Gautier JF. Adult-onset idiopathic Type I or ketosis-prone Type II diabetes: evidence to revisit diabetes classification. Diabetologia 2002, 45(2), 283-285.
• Boudou P, Sobngwi E, Ibrahim F, Porcher R, Vexiau P, Calvo F, Gautier JF. Hyperglycaemia acutely decreases circulating dehydroepiandrosterone levels in healthy men. Clinical Endocrinology 2006, 64(1), 46-52.
• Echouffo-Tcheugui JB, Sobngwi E, Kengne AP. Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation Tools Specific to Population With Diabetes. Archives of Internal Medicine 2012, 172(6), 523-524.
• Kengne AP, Echouffo-Tcheugui JB, Sobngwi E. Coronary artery calcium for guiding statin treatment. Lancet 2012, 379(9813), 312-312.
• Kengne AP, Sobngwi E, Chalmers J. Multiple risk factor interventions and inflammatory biomarkers in high risk individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2012, 95(3), 386-388.
• Sobngwi E, Ndour-Mbaye M, Boateng KA, Ramaiya KL, Njenga EW, Diop SN, Mbanya JC, Ohwovoriole AE. Type 2 diabetes control and complications in specialised diabetes care centres of six sub-Saharan African countries: The Diabcare Africa study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2012, 95(1), 30-36.
• Koki G, Bella AL, Omgbwa EA, Epee E, Sobngwi E, Kouanang KA, Ebana MC, Mbanya JC. Diabetic retinopathy in black Africans: an angiographic study. Sante 2010, 20(3), 127-132.
• Lekoubou A, Awah P, Fezeu L, Sobngwi E, Kengne AP. Hypertension, diabetes mellitus and task shifting in their management in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2010, 7(2), 353-363.
• Kengne AP, Fezeu L, Awah PK, Sobngwi E, Mbanya JC. Task shifting in the management of epilepsy in resource-poor settings. Epilepsia 2010, 51(5), 931-932.
• Kengne AP, Djouogo CF, Dehayem MY, Fezeu L, Sobngwi E, Lekoubou A, Mbanya JC. Admission trends over 8 years for diabetic foot ulceration in a specialized diabetes unit in Cameroon. The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds 2009, 8(4), 180-186.
• Barrett JC, Clayton DG, Concannon P, Akolkar B, Cooper JD, Erlich HA, Julier C, Morahan G, Nerup J, Nierras C, Plagnol V, Pociot F, Schuilenburg H, Smyth DJ, Stevens H, Todd JA, Walker NM, Rich SS, The Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium. Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis find that over 40 loci affect risk of type 1 diabetes. by the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium. Nature Genetics 2009, 41(6), 703-707.
• Nathan DM, Balkau B, Bonora E, Borch-Johnsen K, Buse JB, Colagiuri S, Davidson MB, DeFronzo R, Genuth S, Holman RR, Ji L, Kirkman S, Knowler WC, Schatz D, Shaw J, Sobngwi E, Steffes M, Vaccaro O, Wareham N, Zinman B, Kahn R. International Expert Committee report on the role of the A1C assay in the diagnosis of diabetes. Diabetes Care 2009, 32(7), 1327-1334.
• Kengne AP, Awah PK, Fezeu LL, Sobngwi E, Mbanya JC. Primary health care for hypertension by nurses in rural and urban sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Clinical Hypertension 2009, 11(10), 564-572.
• Kengne AP, Sobngwi E, Fezeu L, Awah PK, Dongmo S, Mbanya JC. Setting-up nurse-led pilot clinics for the management of non-communicable diseases at primary health care level in resource-limited settings of Africa. Pan African Medical Journal 2009, 3, 10.
• Kengne AP, Dzudie A, Sobngwi E. Heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review with emphasis on individuals with diabetes. Vascular Health and Risk Management 2008, 4(1), 123-130.
• Kengne AP, Sobngwi E, Fezeu LL, Awah PK, Dongmo S, Mbanya JC. Nurse-led care for asthma at primary level in rural sub-Saharan Africa: the experience of Bafut in Cameroon. Journal of Asthma 2008, 45(6), 437-443.
• Kengne AP, Fezeu LL, Awah PK, Sobngwi E, Dongmo S, Mbanya JC. Nurse-led care for epilepsy at primary level in a rural health district in Cameroon. Epilepsia 2008, 49(9), 1639-1642.
• Fezeu L, Balkau B, Kengne AP, Sobngwi E, Mbanya JC. Metabolic syndrome in a sub-Saharan African setting: central obesity may be the key determinant. Atherosclerosis 2007, 193(1), 70-76.
• Sobngwi E, Mbanya JCN, Unwin NC, Aspray TJ, Alberti KGMM. Development and validation of a questionnaire for the assessment of physical activity in epidemiological studies in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology 2001, 30(6), 1361-1368.