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ABCD Autumn Meeting 2004

Programme

Thursday 11th November 2004

 

From 17.30 : Registration

 

19.30 : Drinks reception

 

20.00 : Dinner

 

Friday 12th November 2004

 

09.00 - 09.45 : Long term follow up of the DCCT and UKPDS cohorts.

Dr Amanda Adler, Consultant Physician, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

 

09.45 - 10.30 : Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - current concepts and treatment strategies.

Professor Chris Day, Professor of Liver Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

10.30 - 11.00 : Tea and coffee.

 

11.00 - 12.30 : The ABCD Debate:

Interventional radiology should be the initial course of management in diabetic PVD.

Mr Malcolm Simms, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Birmingham.

Dr Peter Gaines, Consultant Radiologist, Sheffield Vascular Institute, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.

 

12.30 - 13.30 : Lunch.

 

13.30 - 14.40 : Managing gestational diabetes my way:

A Diabetologists view:

Dr Sean Dineen, Consultant Diabetologist, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

An Obstetricians view:

Mr Robert Fraser, Senior Lecturer and Consultant, Academic Unit of Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, University of Sheffield.

 

14.40 - 15.40 : Successes and failures in diabetes care in the light of the NSF.

Failures:

Dr Peter Winocour, Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, East and North Herts NHS Trust

Successes:

Dr John Dean, Consultant Diabetologist, Bolton Diabetes Centre

 

15.40 - 16.30 : Lipid-lowering therapy in diabetes post-CARDS - what more do we need to know?

Professor John Betteridge, Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University College Hospital Medical School, London.

 

16.30 : Tea and coffee.

Meeting closes.