On Demand Webinar: Covid-19 and Diabetes: Clinical challenges and implications
Related ABCD Resources
- ABCD Covid-19 Resources
- Covid-19 and diabetes ABCD national audit
- "Sick day rules" can be found on page 10 of the ABCD Position Paper SGLT-2 inhibitors in people with type 2 diabetes
This is the second ABCD webinar in a series of four.
There have been a number of reports demonstrating adverse clinical outcomes in people known to have diabetes who are infected by SARS-Covid-2.
Many hospitals in the UK have have been inundated with acute severe presentations of diabetes.
The talk by Dipesh Patel will review some of this data, including acute presentations, proposed mechanisms and management principles.
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Covid-19 and Diabetes: Clinical challenges and implications
Speakers
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Professor Umesh Dashora
Consultant
Umesh Dashora is a consultant in Hastings and has trained in diabetes and endocrinology at Newcastle and Southampton among other centres.
He has been a keen member of the ABCD executive team since 2013 and has actively promoted and contributed to the ABCD journal as the news editor. He has represented ABCD in JBDS-IP and contributed to a number of recent national guidelines the most recent being diabetes management during delivery in which he is the first author. This is now published. Umesh and Dinesh have developed an online module for the Royal College of Midwives which has had very good uptake.
He is the first author of one of the first ABCD position statements on SGLT-2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes and the updated position statement on SGLT-2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes.
Umesh also published on the use of U500 in UK on behalf of ABCD .
He is the new meeting secretary of ABCD. He also holds the regional adviser position for the Royal colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh. -
Dr. Dipesh Patel
Consultant Physician
Dr Dipesh C. Patel is a Consultant physician who is involved in the delivery of specialist clinical care in diabetes and general endocrinology and acute medicine at the Royal Free and Cleveland Clinic hospitals in London. His academic interests include cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes, he undertook work in cellular cholesterol transport leading to a PhD in 2010 at Imperial College. He has an interest in the use of newer diabetes therapies and clinical trials. He has undergraduate teaching lead and clinical trial responsibilities at the Royal Free campus and is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at UCL.
Dr Patel has had a number of specialist advisory roles for the NHS, Royal College of Physicians and is past chair of the UK National body of diabetes consultant and trainees- Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD).
