Autumn Meeting 2006
November 1 - 2
This was a back to back meeting with the British Thyroid Association. The meeting was followed by an SpR meeting - November 2-3
Programme
Wednesday 1st November
6-8.00
pm: Registration
8.00pm: Reception and dinner
Thursday 2nd November
9-9.45: 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 Tea Coffee and Posters
11-12.30: 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
2-2.45 : 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 : : Screening for Diabetes –who, when, how and if ?
Dr Simon Griffin , MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
4-4.45: Impact of medical therapies on diabetic retinopathy.
Dr Paul Dodson, Consultant Physician, Heart of England Foundation NHS trust.
4.45 : Close of meeting