Monique is a leading authority on the impact of lifestyle on obesity, metabolic diseases and diabetes, as well as addressing environmental factors responsible for long-term diseases.

Working with her husband, Dr Paul Barrington Chell, their book The Diet Whisperer: the 12-week plan, a number one Amazon best seller, addresses the effects of lifestyle on our weight and health.

Monique read medicine at University College Dublin. During her training, she gained invaluable experience working in various clinical settings, fostering her interest in metabolic diseases, such as diabetes. She held clinical and research positions in Dublin, Belfast, Birmingham and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York (USA). She obtained fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

She was a pioneer of diabetic eye screening in the UK. Her innovative work in indocyanine video angiography helped in the understanding of how metabolic diseases impact the eye.

Always an enthusiastic teacher, as honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham, she mentored and taught medical students, retinal fellows, junior doctors and supported numerous other allied health professionals.

Rooted firmly in the belief that education is the most powerful tool to change, she established and chaired the committee which created the Hollier Simulation Centre, a state-of-the-art training centre for surgeons.

Monique has been President of numerous learned Societies. She has been an invited lecturer at international scientific meetings for many decades and has delivered over 200 invited lectures including the eponymous “Middlemore Lecture” and “Kodak Lecture”.

A stalwart for maintaining standards in the medical profession, she was a Royal College external examiner, an independent reviewer for the NHS, an external clinical advisor to BUPA, and an external assessor for the NHS Health Service Ombudsman.

Monique firmly believes that scientific research is essential to advance human knowledge and meet the challenges that we face in the modern world, particularly now in the field of wellness, longevity, and disease prevention. Monique is a named author on over 50 scientific peer-reviewed papers and articles. She was a reviewer for several international scientific journals.

Monique has been author or chapter contributor to numerous books: Key Topics in Ophthalmology, Indocyanine Green Angiography, The Diet Whisperer: The Secrets of Permanent Weight Loss, The Diet Whisperer: 12 Week Reset Plan and The Diet Whisperer Weight Loss Journal.

Monique is married to Dr Paul Barrington Chell, living between England and France, where they share a love of the great outdoors with their German Wirehaired Pointers, Albert and Henri. She loves trail and mountain running, mountain biking, skiing, swimming, and is a keen triathlete, having completed her first ironman triathlon in her late 50s.

Monique says, “we can become healthier, we can reverse disease, we can feel better, and we can regain our joie-de-vivre. I’ve spent a lifetime treating patients with lifestyle induced diseases, and witnessed the terrible consequences and personal anguish this causes. I am totally dedicated to sharing my knowledge with the world. I passionately believe that prevention and disease reversal are the two key components missing from modern life and healthcare. With education, whether in the form of Healthbuddi video programs or The Diet Whisperer books, we come to understand that lifestyle changes are the key to better health. I want people to avoid years of anguish and disease, learn how to heal themselves and their body, thus preventing or reversing disease, and become the best version of themselves.”