Dr Arianne Sweeting
Staff Specialist Endocrinologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Dr Arianne Sweeting is a Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology at the University of Sydney and an Endocrinologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, where she serves as the Maternal Metabolic Health Lead. She was awarded the 2022 Australian Diabetes Society Skip Martin Fellowship following the completion of her NHMRC Early Career Fellowship in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2015. Arianne has a Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience) and a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Public Health Law from the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. She was awarded an NHMRC postgraduate scholarship and Dr Albert S McKern obstetric research scholarship for her PhD on risk management in Gestational Diabetes. Her international and national diabetes in pregnancy leadership roles include membership of the International Association for the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) Council, diaTribe Foundation Diabetes Technology in Pregnancy Consensus Expert Group, American Diabetes Association/European Association for the Study of Diabetes Precision Diabetes Initiative (ADA/EASD PMDI), Presidency of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) from 2020-2022 and member of the ADIPS National Diabetes in Pregnancy Benchmarking Programme and the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists Preanalytical Glucose Working Group, and Maternal Metabolic Lead for the Sydney Health Partners Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group.
Pregnancy
Diabetes in pregnancy
Early gestational diabetes
Obesity in pregnancy
Bariatric surgery and pregnancy
Precision medicine
Early pregnancy risk prediction
Nutrition interventions
Fertility
Preconception Care
Eating disorders
Eating disorders in pregnancy
Technology in pregnancy
Prepregnancy health
Obesity in pregnancy
Diabetes in pregnancy
Early gestational diabetes
Eating disorders in pregnancy
Bariatric surgery and pregnancy
Precision medicine
General endocrinology
TOBOGM: International multicentre randomised controlled trial on early detection and treatment of gestational diabetes.
PREBABE: Multicentre preconception weight loss randomised controlled trial.
PMDI: Systematic review and meta-analysis of precision medicine diagnostics in gestational diabetes.
Optimisation of glycaemic control following antenatal corticosteroid administration in pregnancies complicated by diabetes: Prospective trial of subcutaneous versus intravenous insulin.
Early pregnancy risk prediction of gestational diabetes.
Adult eating disorders: Risk prediction and clinical auditing to improve outcomes.
Australian Diabetes Society Skip Martin Fellow | 2022 |
Sydney Medical School Dean’s Publication Prize |
2016 |
International Diabetes Federation World Diabetes Congress Travel Grant |
2015 |
NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship Albert S McKern Obstetric Research Scholarship Postgraduate Research Support Scheme |
2014-2018 |
School of Public Health Scholarship |
2014 |
ADIPS Graz Clock Award ADS Clinical Young Investigator Award finalist |
2014 |
Prince of Wales Hospital Junior Medical Officer of the Year Award |
2008 |
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Women’s Health Award |
2006 |
Publications
Books
- Kopelman, P., Caterson, I., Dietz, W., Armstrong, S., Sweeting, A., Wilding, J. (2022). Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children, 4th Edition. TBC. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Caterson, I., Sweeting, A., Kopelman, P. (2022). A Practical Approach to Contemporary Obesity Management. Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children (4th Edition), (pp. 223-231). United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A. (2022). Obesity and Fertility. Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children (4th Edition), (pp. 154-158). United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Chua, E. (2019). Management of Endocrine Disorders and the Pharmacist's Role: Adrenal Insufficiency. In Not known (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, (pp. 437-446). TBC. [More Information]
Journals
- Haque, M., Tannous, W., Herman, W., Immanuel, J., Hague, W., Teede, H., Enticott, J., Cheung, N., Hibbert, E., Nolan, C., et al (2024). Cost-effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment of early gestational diabetes mellitus: economic evaluation of the TOBOGM study, an international multicenter randomized controlled trial. EClinicalMedicine, 71. [More Information]
- Simmons, D., Wong, V., Hibbert, E., Kautzky-Willer, A., Harreiter, J., Backman, H., Gianatti, E., Sweeting, A., Mohan, V., Cheung, N., et al (2024). Effect of treatment for early gestational diabetes mellitus on neonatal respiratory distress: A secondary analysis of the TOBOGM study. BJOG. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Hannah, W., Backman, H., Catalano, P., Feghali, M., Herman, W., Hivert, M., Immanuel, J., Meek, C., Oppermann, M., et al (2024). Epidemiology and management of gestational diabetes. The Lancet, 404(10448), 175-192. [More Information]
2024
- Haque, M., Tannous, W., Herman, W., Immanuel, J., Hague, W., Teede, H., Enticott, J., Cheung, N., Hibbert, E., Nolan, C., et al (2024). Cost-effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment of early gestational diabetes mellitus: economic evaluation of the TOBOGM study, an international multicenter randomized controlled trial. EClinicalMedicine, 71. [More Information]
- Simmons, D., Wong, V., Hibbert, E., Kautzky-Willer, A., Harreiter, J., Backman, H., Gianatti, E., Sweeting, A., Mohan, V., Cheung, N., et al (2024). Effect of treatment for early gestational diabetes mellitus on neonatal respiratory distress: A secondary analysis of the TOBOGM study. BJOG. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Hannah, W., Backman, H., Catalano, P., Feghali, M., Herman, W., Hivert, M., Immanuel, J., Meek, C., Oppermann, M., et al (2024). Epidemiology and management of gestational diabetes. The Lancet, 404(10448), 175-192. [More Information]
2023
- Simmons, D., Sweeting, A. (2023). Defining gestational diabetes: not just about cutoffs. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 11(5), P303-P304. [More Information]
- Jamieson, E., Dimeski, G., Flatman, R., Hickman, P., Jones, G., Marley, J., McIntyre, D., McNeil, A., Sweeting, A., Williams, P., et al (2023). Oral glucose tolerance test to diagnose gestational diabetes mellitus: Impact of variations in specimen handling. Clinical Biochemistry, 115, 33-48. [More Information]
- Francis, E., Powe, C., Lowe, W., White, S., Scholtens, D., Yang, J., Zhu, Y., Zhang, C., Hivert, M., Kwak, S., Sweeting, A. (2023). Refining the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Communications Medicine, 3(1), 185. [More Information]
2022
- Sweeting, A., Wong, J., Murphy, H., Ross, G. (2022). A Clinical Update on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Endocrine Reviews, 43(5), 763-793. [More Information]
- Caterson, I., Sweeting, A., Kopelman, P. (2022). A Practical Approach to Contemporary Obesity Management. Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children (4th Edition), (pp. 223-231). United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. [More Information]
- Kopelman, P., Caterson, I., Dietz, W., Armstrong, S., Sweeting, A., Wilding, J. (2022). Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children, 4th Edition. TBC. [More Information]
2021
- Muirhead, R., Kizirian, N., Lal, R., Black, K., Prys-Davies, A., Nassar, N., Baur, L., Sainsbury, A., Sweeting, A., Markovic, T., Skilton, M., Hyett, J., De Vries, B., Tarnow-Mordi, W., Brand-Miller, J., Gordon, A. (2021). A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Partial Meal Replacement Preconception Weight Loss Program for Women with Overweight and Obesity. Nutrients, 13(9), 3200. [More Information]
- Immanuel, J., Flack, J., Wong, V., Yuen, L., Eagleton, C., Graham, D., Lagstrom, J., Wolmarans, L., Martin, M., Cheung, N., et al (2021). The adips pilot national diabetes in pregnancy benchmarking programme. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), 4899. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Mijatovic, J., Brinkworth, G., Markovic, T., Ross, G., Brand-Miller, J., Hernandez, T. (2021). The Carbohydrate Threshold in Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes: How Low Can We Go? Nutrients, 13(8), 2599. [More Information]
2020
- Franklin, J., Sweeting, A., Gibson, A., Caterson, I. (2020). Adjunctive therapies for obesity: Pharmacotherapy, VLEDs and bariatric surgery. Medicine Today, 21(10), 21-29.
- Sweeting, A., Ross, G. (2020). An update on gestational diabetes mellitus. Medicine Today, 21(11), 33-42.
2019
- Sweeting, A., Wong, J., Appelblom, H., Ross, G., Kouru, H., Williams, P., Sairanen, M., Hyett, J. (2019). A Novel Early Pregnancy Risk Prediction Model for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, 45(2), 76-84. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Chua, E. (2019). Management of Endocrine Disorders and the Pharmacist's Role: Adrenal Insufficiency. In Not known (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, (pp. 437-446). TBC. [More Information]
2018
- Sweeting, A., Wong, J., Appelblom, H., Ross, G., Kouru, H., Williams, P., Sairanen, M., Hyett, J. (2018). A first trimester prediction model for gestational diabetes utilizing aneuploidy and pre-eclampsia screening markers. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 31(16), 2122-2130. [More Information]
- Gray, S., Sweeting, A., McGuire, T., Cohen, N., Ross, G., Little, P. (2018). Changing environment of hyperglycemia in pregnancy: Gestational diabetes and diabetes mellitus in pregnancy. Journal of Diabetes, 10(8), 633-640. [More Information]
- Lomax, A., Lim, J., Cheng, R., Sweeting, A., Lowe, P., McGill, N., Shackel, N., Chua, E., McNeil, C. (2018). Immune Toxicity with Checkpoint Inhibition for Metastatic Melanoma: Case Series and Clinical Management. Journal of Skin Cancer, 2018, 9602540. [More Information]
2017
- Sweeting, A., Caterson, I. (2017). Approaches to obesity management. Internal Medicine Journal, 47(7), 734-739. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Ross, G., Hyett, J., Molyneaux, L., Tan, K., Constantino, M., Harding, A., Wong, J. (2017). Baseline HbA1c to identify high-risk gestational diabetes: Utility in early vs standard gestational diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 102(1), 150-156. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Caterson, I. (2017). Control of Weight: How Do We Get Fat? In RICHARD I.G. HOLT, CLIVE S. COCKRAM, ALLAN FLYVBJERG, BARRY J. GOLDSTEIN (Eds.), Textbook of Diabetes, (pp. 133-139). United Kingdom: Wiley Blackwell. [More Information]
2016
- Sweeting, A., Ross, G., Hyett, J., Molyneaux, L., Constantino, M., Harding, A., Wong, J. (2016). Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in Early Pregnancy: Evidence for Poor Pregnancy Outcomes Despite Treatment. Diabetes Care, 39(1), 75-81. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Caterson, I. (2016). Liraglutide: For obesity, not just type 2 diabetes. Medicine Today, 17(5), 69-71.
2015
- Seimon, R., Espinoza, D., Finer, N., James, W., Legler, U., Coutinho, W., Sharma, A., Van Gaal, L., Maggioni, A., Sweeting, A., Gebski, V., Caterson, I., et al (2015). Changes in body weight and pulse: outcome events in overweight and obese subjects with cardiovascular disease in the SCOUT trial. International Journal of Obesity, 39(5), 849-857. [More Information]
- Lam, T., Chan, M., Sweeting, A., De Sousa, S., Clements, A., Carlino, M., Long, G., Tonks, K., Chua, E., Kefford, R., Chipps, D. (2015). Ipilimumab-induced hypophysitis in melanoma patients: An Australian case series. Internal Medicine Journal, 45(10), 1066-1073. [More Information]
- Sweeting, A., Hocking, S., Markovic, T. (2015). Pharmacotherapy for the Treatment of Obesity. Molecular And Cellular Endocrinology, 418(pt 2), 173-183. [More Information]
2014
- Sweeting, A., Tabet, E., Caterson, I., Markovic, T. (2014). Management of obesity and cardiometabolic risk - role of phentermine/extended release topiramate. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy, 7, 35-44. [More Information]
2013
- Sweeting, A., Rudland (nee Carleton), V., Ross, G. (2013). Gestational diabetes: Towards new diagnostic criteria. Medicine Today, 14(5), 46-53.
Selected Grants
2024
- To develop the next international study using precision medicine to improve heal, Sweeting A, Harvard Club of Australia Foundation/Australia - Harvard Fellowship
2023
- Closed-loop Insulin delivery by glucose Responsive CompUter algorithms In Type 1diabetes pregnancies (CIRCUIT), Cheung N, Sweeting A, Pasupathy D, Marschner S, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/MRFF - International Clinical Trials Collaborations Program
Further Grants
2019
- Can a translatable preconception weight loss program improve outcomes for mothers and babies for women with overweight and obesity? A pragmatic randomised controlled trial, Gordon A, Department of Health (Federal)/MRFF - Preventive and Public Health Research