Spring Meeting 2006

April 5 - 6

This followed the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (incorporating BES) meeting, which was held at the SECC on April 1 - 5, 2006

Programme
 

Wednesday 5th April
6.30-7.30 pm : Dr Alan Gaw , Consultant Chemical Pathologist , Glasgow Royal Infirmary:
Critical appraisal of  clinical research and design of clinical trials

Thursday 6th April
 
9-9.45 :Dr Matthew Walters, Senior Lecturer , University of Glasgow: Cerebrovascular disease and diabetes – from epidemiology to acute care
 
9.45 –10.30: Dr Wendy Gatling, Consultant Physician , Poole General Hospital:
A critical overview of current and future educational models for diabetes
 
10.30-11.00 :Tea and Posters
 
11-12.30 : ABCD Debate: Statins should be routinely prescribed in adults with type 1 diabetes:
Proposer: Professor Paul  Durrington, Professor of Medicine, University of Manchester
Opposer: Dr John McKnight, Consultant Physician, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
 
12.30 –1.1.30 : Lunch and Posters
 
1.30-2.15 : Dr Margaret McMillan, Consultant Nephrologist, Western Infirmary, Glasgow:
Current and future management of diabetic renal failure
 
2.15-3.00 :ABCD activity reports:
Collaboration with National Horizon Scanning Centre –
Dr Ian Lewin , Consultant Physician , Devon
Alison Cooke, University of Birmingham
 
Diabetes Strategic Services Liaison Group with National Clinical Director –
Dr Jiten Vora, Consultant Physician , Liverpool
 
Role of the specialist diabetologist-
Dr Richard Greenwood, Chairman ABCD

3.00-3.30: Tea/Coffee and Posters

3.30-4.15 :ABCD Sanofi Aventis Clinical Audit Programme Award Winner:
Survey of In-patient Diabetes services -
Dr Mike Sampson , Consultant Diabetologist, Norwich
 
4.15-5.00 :Dr Nick Finer ,Clinical Director, University of Cambridge:
Managing the endocrinology of obesity – from the adipocyte to the brain
 
5.00 : Conclusion of meeting