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ABCD Autumn Meeting 1998

Programme

Thursday 19th November 1998

1400 : ABCD Committee Meeting

1600 : Registration - Tea/Coffee

1630 : Annual General Meeting - Members only

1830 : Lecture : Professor Alan Williams, Centre for Health Economics at University of York

 “Why we should discriminate against the elderly in health care”

 Followed by discussion

2000 : Dinner - Royal York Hotel

Friday 20th November 1998

0900 : Registration - Tea/Coffee

Chairman - Dr Jeremy Bending (Eastbourne)

0930 : Debate : It is important to achieve good glycaemic control in gestational diabetes.

In favour : Dr Anne Dornhurst (Hammersmith Hospital)

Against : Dr Rene Page (Nottingham)

1100 : Coffee

Chairman - Dr Richard Greenwood

1130 : Dr Robert Turner (Oxford)

UKPDS : implications for Diabetes Care

Lunch - Royal York Hotel

Chairman - Prof. Ken Shaw

1400 : Professor John Wass (Oxford)

The management of pituitary tumours

1500 : Dr Michael Feher (Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals)

The Management of Hypertension in Diabetic patients

1600 : Close of Meeting - Coffee