Tuesday 03rd February, 2026
Taking place online, 6pm till 7:30pm
Join us for our 2026 Annual General Meeting, where you can hear about all of The Pituitary Foundation’s charitable activities from our 2024-2025 financial year.
During this meeting, we will discuss the outcomes of our 2024-25 financial year and set out plans for the year ahead. By attending, you will have the opportunity to hear about our upcoming plans and be able to vote on any matters put forward to members.
We like to end our AGMs with a topical presentation that we hope our audience will find informative and enjoyable. This year, Professor John Wass is kindly joining us for a session titled ‘In conversation with Professor John Wass.’
Professor Wass is a founding member of The Foundation and a long-standing member of our Medical Committee. After a long and prominent career, Professor Wass retired from his consultant role earlier this year. To celebrate this, this session will explore John’s career and life in endocrinology. In this session, John will be joined by two trustees of The Foundation: Professor Niki Karavitaki and Debbie Cooper, who will lead the conversation.
This event is open to members and non-members of The Foundation, but you will need to be a member to vote on any proposed matters. If you wish to vote but are not a member, please sign-up to be a member before the 3rd February 2026.
The deadline to register for this event is 12 pm (noon) on the 3rd February 2026.
At this year’s AGM, we have the pleasure of welcoming a number of new trustees to our Board of Trustees. Below, you can read some short bios from our incoming trustees to find out about who they are, their work and why they want to support us.
Nazifa Chowdhury
Nazifa is a barrister and currently non-practicing solicitor who is keen to bring her experience in the legal field to support The Foundation to achieve its vision, mission, and 2023-2027 strategy. She joins our Board as a legal expert, to support the running of The Foundation and our wider work.
“The Foundation’s work is crucial in developing the public’s awareness of pituitary conditions and supporting those who live with conditions that are still subject to key medical research and understanding.” – Nazifa
Dr Niki Karavitaki
Niki is a professor of endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and an honorary consultant endocrinologist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Her clinical and research work mainly focuses on hypothalamo-pituitary conditions, and she has published extensively in this field. She is a co-lead of the Pituitary Service and leads the academic clinical training in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University of Birmingham.
Niki is actively involved with national and international endocrinology bodies and societies (including the Society for Endocrinology UK, European Society of Endocrinology, European Neuroendocrine Association and Endocrine Society USA). She has contributed to the development of various international consensus and guidelines on pituitary disease and she is deputy editor of the European Journal of Endocrinology. She has been awarded the Medal for Research Excellence 2026 by the Society for Endocrinology. Niki is also a member of our Medical Committee and has recently been appointed as a trustee.
“I am deeply honoured and excited to join the Board of Trustees of the Pituitary Foundation. I look forward to serving the values of the Foundation and to working with the brilliant team for improving the care and the lives of our patients.” – Niki
Sherwin Criseno
Sherwin is a long-standing member of our Medical Committee and recently also joined our Board of Trustees as a medical trustee.
Sherwin is a consultant nurse in endocrinology at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, where he leads the largest team of specialist nurses in endocrinology in Europe. With a clinical focus on pituitary tumours, adrenal insufficiency, andrology, metabolic bone and calcium disorders, adult growth hormone deficiency, and the late effects of cancer treatment, Sherwin brings extensive expertise to some of the most complex areas in endocrine care.
A passionate advocate for patient empowerment, he champions education, collaboration, and meaningful engagement as essential components of high quality care. Sherwin holds several national leadership roles. He is a trustee of the UK
Society for Endocrinology, a member of both the NICE Osteoporosis Clinical Guideline Committee and the NICE Osteoporosis Quality Standards Committee. He also serves as an honorary associate clinical professor of nursing at the University of Birmingham. In parallel with his clinical and academic roles, Sherwin is undertaking doctoral research as an NIHR clinical doctoral research fellow, with a focus on growth hormone deficiency in adults.
Below is an option to pre-submit any questions you would like answered during the AGM. Please only use this to submit questions relating to The Pituitary Foundation and our charitable activity. Please do not use this option to submit questions for Professor John Wass’s session.