Dr Gevers joined Barts Health NHS Trust and William Harvey Research Institute in 2013.
Dr Gevers is a Paediatric Endocrinologist, practicing in The Royal London Hospital - Barts Health NHS Trust, as well as outreach clinics in Whipp’s Cross Hospital, Basildon and Thurrock Hospital and Broomfield Hospital, and a Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Endocrinology in the William Harvey Research Institute. Her main interests are pituitary disorders, including congenital hypopituitarism and craniopharyngioma, neuroendocrinology and growth/bone disorders. She has worked in the field of Paediatric Endocrinology since 1992 both clinically and in basic science. She was clinically trained in Paediatrics and Paediatric Endocrinology in both The Netherlands (Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam) and the UK (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London). Her PhD was performed in the National Institute for Medical Research (Mill Hill, London) and in Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands, and her post-doctoral research in the National Institute for Medical Research. She is a Principle Investigator in clinical trials for Prader Willi Syndrome (Destiny, National Coordinating Investigator), children who are small for gestational age (SGA) and have failed to catch up, Type 2 Diabetes and Hypoparathryoidism. She has set up a MDT clinic for Prader Willi Syndrome and for PTH pump treatment for children with Autosomal Dominant Hypoparathryoidism Type 1 (ADH1) due to activating mutations in CaSR.
Dr Gevers' previous work has focused on the hypothalamus-pituitary-growth plate axis and the physiology of growth and short stature, both in rodents and in humans, looking at GH secretion from the pituitary, GH receptors and GH signaling transduction through Stat5, and local actions of GH and IGF1 in the growth plate where actual growth takes place.
Dr Gevers' basic and translational research focuses on underlying genetic causes for hypopituitarism, craniopharyngioma and short stature, and the biological consequences of such genetic abnormalities.
The aims of her research are to: