Matt Capehorn

Dr Capehorn has been a GP with a specialist interest in obesity and diabetes for nearly 30 years.  He has been an invited speaker on these topics on 4 continents. He is also a National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) expert advisor and is regularly invited to speak to TV/press on the topic of obesity. He has also spoken at the All-Party Parliamentary Group meetings on obesity as well as having been visiting lecturer at the Universities of Chester, Sheffield and the College of Contemporary Health (CCH).  He previously held the position of Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum (NOF) and developed the NOF one day Diploma in Obesity and organised the 2009 and 2010 NOF annual conferences.  He has been on the Faculty of the Primary Care Academy of Diabetes Specialists (PCADS) since it formed in 2014.  

In 2002, Dr Capehorn set up a weight management clinic within his Practice, which for many years remained Rotherham’s only dedicated service for adult obesity, and it was developed into the Rotherham Institute for Obesity (RIO), a Rotherham-wide multi-disciplinary (tier 3) specialist weight management service for both adults and children living with obesity, as well as managing diabetes, obstructive sleep apnoea and related metabolic conditions.  He was a member of the group that helped to develop the NHS Rotherham Healthy Weight Framework that won the NHS Health and Social Care Award 2009.

RIO is now an established research site with a dedicated team that do commercial and non-commercial studies, specialising in obesity and diabetes related research. Dr Capehorn has been Chief UK Investigator on several studies and Principal investigator on many more, including landmark trials such as (but not only) SCALE, SUSTAIN, PIONEER, STEP, SELECT, and REDEFINE studies. RIO is also involved with our Regional Research Development Network (RRDN) and collaborates with several academic institutions and has done numerous studies in all aspects of primary care medicine.  

Dr Capehorn has published in the region of 100 articles/abstracts for books, journals and poster presentations at related conferences.

Dr Capehorn is regularly invited on to local, regional and national strategy/advisory boards and regularly speaks at meetings to all healthcare professionals in the hope of encouraging the development of better services for patients living with obesity and diabetes.

Dr Capehorn is Medical Director to Lighterlife, which is a commercial weight loss companies, as well as being an ad hoc medical advisor to McDonalds.