Programme
Thursday 1st November 2007
8.00pm : Reception and dinner
Friday 2nd November 2007
9.00-9.45 : Current and future status of islet cell replacement strategies
Dr James Shaw, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
9.45-10.30 : Early effective treatment of type 2 diabetes
Professor Rury Holman, Professor of Diabetic Medicine, OCDEM, University of Oxford
10.30-11.00 : Tea, Coffee and Posters
11.00-12.30 : The ABCD debate :
The QuoF for Diabetes is the most important advance in diabetes care in the UK over the last decade.
Proposed – Dr Kamlesh Khunti, Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
Opposed – Professor David Matthews, Professor of Diabetes, OCDEM, University of Oxford
12.30-1.30 : Lunch and Posters
1.30-2.15 : The highs and lows of commissioning a diabetes service.
Peter Bowker, Diabetes Network Manager, Hull & East Ridings PCT & Scarborough PCT
2.15-3.00 : Role of the RAAS in treatment selection and target attainment in hypertensive diabetes
Professor Morris Brown, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
3.00-3.30 : Tea, Coffee and Posters
3.30-4.15 : Controversies in the management of paediatric diabetes
Dr Fiona Campbell, Consultant Paediatrician, St James University Hospital , Leeds.
4.15-5.00 : Provision of diabetes care for ethnic minorities in the UK – A special case?
Dr Tahseen Chowdhury, Consultant Physician, The Royal London Hospital
5.00 : Close of meeting
