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Don't miss out on your opportunity to attend the next Spring meeting! Packed with highly relevant presentations this conference offers professional education, update, development and networking for clinicians working in diabetes and endocrinology.
Listen to UK leaders in the field with high quality presentations and gain further understanding in specialist areas as well as areas of much debate. Network with consultants and SpR’s - both your area and beyond.
Receive important updates in workforce for job opportunity and how you can contribute to national audits.
Multiple Topics of interest include:
- Update in Immunotherapy treatments for type I Diabetes
- 21st Century consultations and care planning
- A new era of GLP-1 therapy (sponsored)
- CSII for inpatient care in the future?
- All you need to know about clinical psychology, including clinical cases
- Listen to prize abstracts from SpR winners of 2018
We start on the evening of the 16th May with the ABCD AGM, the Rowan Hillson Insulin Safety Awards and the John Wales Memorial Lecture, dinner follows on.
An exciting full day's programme follows on 17th May.
Immediately preceding the Spring Meeting is the ABCD Diabetes Technology Network UK Meeting which will run at the same venue for the full day on 16th May.
Spring Meeting 2019 Programme
Thursday 16th May 2019
| 17:00 | Registration |
| 18:00 | ABCD AGM |
| 18:45 | Rowan Hillson Insulin Safety Award 2019 |
| 19:00 |
The John Wales Memorial Lecture Professor Peter Grant, Leeds Diabetes Care: The Appliance of Science? |
| 19:45 | Drinks reception and dinner |
Friday 17th May 2019
Session 1: New Therapies (Chairs: Stella George and Dinesh Nagi)
| 09:00 |
Immunotherapy for type I diabetes - current state of play and the future Professor Colin Dayan, Cardiff |
| 09:45 |
Novo Nordisk sponsored talk - New era of GLP-1 therapy |
| 10:30 | Tea, coffee, exhibition and posters |
Session 2: Diabetes Management in the 21st Century (Chairs: Susannah Rowles and Peter Winoccour)
| 11:00 |
21st century consultations and care plans Professor Vinod Patel, Coventry |
| 11:30 |
Inpatient diabetes in the 21st century - CSI or CSII? Dr. Mark Evans, Cambridge |
| 12:00 |
Award winning abstracts from the ABCD SpR Meeting 2018 Improvements in Diabetic Neuropathy and Nephropathy after Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study, Dr Safwaan Adam, Manchester. Proinsulin peptide C19-A3 immunotherapy in new-onset type 1 diabetes is well-tolerated and associated with reduced total daily insulin usage. Dr Mohammad Alhadj Ali, Cardiff. |
| 12:30 | Lunch, exhibition and posters |
Session 3: Updates and Abstracts (Chairs: Umesh Dashora and Hugh Jones)
| 13:30 |
ABCD audit update Dr. Bob Ryder, Birmingham |
| 13:45 |
Workforce update Dr. Stella George, Stevenage |
| 14:00 |
Oral presentations of four selected abstracts 14.00 - Referral rates of patients with diabetes to secondary care are determined by practice size and confidence in treatment, not by HbA1c level , Qi Zhuang Siah 14.15 - Home Diabetic foot ulcer service: a safe and clinically effective model for managing patients with diabetic foot ulcers in the community, Christopher Wilson 14.30 - The Incidence and Risk Factors of New-onset Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus After Gestational Diabetes, Liana Yamanouchi 14.45 - Prevalence of risk factors and burden of diabetic foot disease amongst patients on haemodialysis, Priyank Shah |
| 15:00 | Tea, coffee, exhibition and posters |
Session 4: Live with Diabetes (Chairs: Dinesh Nagi)
| 15:30 |
The role of the psychologist - what the specialist needs to know Associate Professor Paul Chadwick, London |
| 16:00 |
Diabetes distress-practical considerations Dr. Dorothy Frizelle, Wakefield |
| 16:30 | Meeting closes |
