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Autumn Meeting Programme

Wednesday  9th November  2016

All meeting sessions at The Brighton Centre.

Daytime

BES sessions at the Brighton Centre

19.30  

Drinks reception at the Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront

20.00

Dinner at the Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront

Thursday 10th November  2016

All sessions at the Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront.

09.00 – 10.30

SESSION 1      

09.00

THE ABCD Debate

This house believes that the current NICE guidelines are out of date, lack patient

focus and  are not fit for purpose.

Professor Miles Fisher, Glasgow & Dr Amanda Adler, Cambridge

10.30

Tea, coffee and posters.

11.00 – 12.30

SESSION 2      

11.00

 

Quantifying a case for change: How IMPACT 2 justifies improved glycaemic control as a health care priority.

Dr Mike Baxter, Sanofi

11.30

 

 

 

 

Symposium sponsored by NovoNordisk Ltd

Chaired by Professor Steve Bain, Swansea

Cardiovascular outcomes in Type 2 diabetes

Background to CVOT’s

Professor John Petrie, Glasgow

Recent CVOT findings

Professor Steve Bain, Swansea

Discussion and Q & A

12.30 – 13.15

Lunch and posters.

13.15 – 15.00

SESSION 3      

13.15

The 4th Niru Goenka Lecture

Diabetes Care For You: Re-inventing Diabetes Care in Brighton & Hove

Dr. Paul Grant, Sussex Community Foundation NHS Trust

14.15

T1DM in Athletes

Roddy Riddle (runner) and Chris Pennell (rugby).

15.00

Tea, coffee and posters.

15.15 – 16.30

SESSION 4      

15.15

Current worksforce

Dr Stella George, East & North Herts NHS Trust

15.30 

Time for diabetologists to measure their hormone: utility and interpretation of C peptide in T1DM.

Professor Andrew Hattersley, Exeter

16.00

Iodine levels in mothers and infants and the impact on brain development.

Dr Fiona Williams, Dundee

16.30

SpR presentations, the best to receive the “ABCD Best Research Travel Grant”

Estimating the potential risk reduction of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) complications if systolic blood pressure (SBP) targets were to be lowered

Dr Samiul Mostafa, DTU, Oxford University

Does glycaemic control improve in adults with Type 1 diabetes after attending CarbAware, a novel, 3 hour, structured education course?

Dr Gaya Thanabalasingham, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

17.00

Meeting closes.