Autumn Meeting 2003

November 13 & 14

Radisson Marlborough Hotel

Bloomsbury Street
London WC1B 3QD

As last year, the Autumn meeting of the Association, on the evening of November 13 and during the day on November 14, was a back to back meeting with the British Thyroid Association meeting which was in London on November 13. Members were invited to attend the BTA meeting prior to the ABCD meeting:

Programme

Thursday 13th November 2003

Registration

19.00 Reception

20.00 Dinner

Friday 14th November 2003

09.00-10.30:  Debate : The NSF strategy for retinal screening will not  prevent blindness from diabetic retinopathy

                         Chairman: Dr Bob Ryder

For the motion: Professor Roy Taylor,               

                         Newcastle upon Tyne

Against the motion: Dr Peter Scanlon,

                                Cheltenham

10.30-11.00:  Coffee

11.00-12.30  Clinical Audit presentations

11.00-11.30: Dr Ian Gallen, Wycombe Hospital:

Prospective audit of the introduction of insulin glargine (Lantus) into clinical practice in type 1 diabetic patients

11.30-12.00: Dr David Levy, Whipps Cross Hospital: Experience with glitazones as triple oral therapy for type 2 diabetes

12.00-12.30: Dr Colin Close, Taunton and Somerset Hospital: Treating hypertension in diabetic nephropathy

12.30-13.45: Lunch

13.45-14.30:  Coagulopathy and diabetes - Beyond aspirin - Professor Peter Grant, Leeds

14.30-15.15:  HbA1c measurement - What the clinician needs to know - Dr Eric Kirkpatrick, Hull

15.15-16.00: The Diabetes NSF - What is the role of the consultant physician-diabetologist - Dr Sue Roberts , National Clinical Director for Diabetes, Dept of Health

16.00   Tea and conclusion of meeting