Programme
Wednesday 1st November
6.00-8.00pm : Registration
8.00pm : Reception and dinner
Thursday 2nd November
9.00-9.45 : Androgen replacement therapy should be considered in management of men with type 2 diabetes
Professor Hugh Jones, Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Barnsley Hospital
9.45-10.30 : The contribution of specialist services to integrated diabetes care –The GP perspective.
Dr Martin Hadley Brown , GP and Chair of PCDUK,, Norfolk
10.30-11.00 : Tea Coffee and Posters
11.00-12.30 : The ABCD Debate – Diagnosis of the Metabolic Syndrome adds nothing to the care of patients with or at risk of type 2 diabetes and CVD
Proposed by : Professor Edwin Gale, Professor of Diabetes, University of Bristol
Opposed by : Professor George Alberti, Senior research Fellow, Imperial College , London
12.30-1.30: Lunch and Posters
1.30-2.00 : ABCD SpR training award winners 2005:
Role of small fibre neuropathy and microvascular hyperaemia in wound healing in diabetes.
Dr Singhan Krishnan, SpR, Ipswich
Adipose tissue and insulin resistance: culprit or victim?
Dr Garry Tan, SpR, Nottingham
2.00-2.45 : All you ever wanted to know about Coeliac disease but were afraid to ask!
Dr Peter Watson, Senior Lecturer, University of Belfast
2.45-3.15 : Tea Coffee Posters
3.15-4.00 : Screening for Diabetes –who, when, how and if?
Dr Simon Griffin, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
4.00-4.45 : Impact of medical therapies on diabetic retinopathy.
Dr Paul Dodson, Consultant Physician, Heart of England Foundation NHS trust.
4.45 : Close of meeting
