Janet Rowan is a general physician who found her way into the diabetes in pregnancy world. She is the physician leader of the diabetes in pregnancy service at National Women’s, Auckland. This year, this service expects to care for 35-40 women with type 1 diabetes, 100 with known type 2 diabetes and 550 with GDM. She is predominantly a clinician but also has clinical research interests, which she undertakes to answer the clinical uncertainties we all deal with. She was the PI for the metformin in gestational diabetes (MiG) trial and now The Offspring Follow Up (TOFU), who are currently being assessed at 9 years of age. She was the NZ representative involved with the development of the international GDM diagnostic criteria. One of her current interests is the role for HbA1c in pregnancy.