[Session 1] Course. How to start and manage insulin therapy in primary care
Date: 22nd October 2015 Duration: 75 minutes Aim: to build competence about the principles of insulin therapy in primary care Facilitators:
Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Sargin (Family Medicine Clinic Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Kartal Lufti Kirdar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey)
Assoc. Prof. Xavier Cos Claramunt (Unit of Clinical Trials, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
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[Session 2] Symposium. DAWN2
Date: 23rd October 2015 Duration: 75 minutes Aim: to gain insight into the perceptions and expectations about diabetes from people with diabetes and healthcare professionals, to enable better awareness for patient centeredness by this comparison Chair: Prof. Dr. Johan Wens Speakers:
Dr. Antonio Niccollucci (Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy)
Prof. Richard Holt (Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Southampton, UK)
Dr. Ingrid Willaing (National Lead Investigator DAWN2-Study, Head of Patient Education Research at Universities, Copenhagen, Denmark)
[Session 3] Symposium. EXPLORE
Date: 23rd October 2015 Duration: 75 minutes Aim: to discuss the EXPLORE study (EXpert and Patient views on living with and controlling type 2 diabetes) which was created to understand the complexity of T2DM management by discovering similarities and differences in perceptions of primary care providers and patients Chair: Assoc. Prof. Pinar Topsever Speakers:
Prof. Peter Schwarz (Professor of Internal Medicine, Head of the Department of Prevention and Care of Diabetes at the Technical University Dresden, Germany)
Prof. Johan Wens (Professor of Family Medicine University of Antwerp, Belgium – Chairman PCDE)
Dr. Martin Hadley-Brown (GP partner in Thetford, Norfolk. Clinical Tutor, University of Cambridge Clinical School, UK)
[Session 4] Symposium. Clinical management of elderly people with diabetes
Date: 24th October 2015 Duration: 75 minutes Aim: to understand the provision of a multidimensional integrated approach to the comprehensive management of diabetes in older people Chair: Dr. Samuel Seidu Speakers:
Dr. Leocadio Rodriguez Manas (Head of Department of Geriatrics at the University Hospital of Getafe, Medicine Faculty at the University of Madrid, Spain)
Assoc. Prof. Serap Cifcili (Family Medicine Department, Marmara University Medical School, Turkey)
Dr. Berry van der Steen (General Practitioner, member of the Diabetes Huisartsen Advies Groep "DiHAG", Netherlands)
[Session 5] Symposium. Is Diabetes the Index Disease? Co- and Multimorbidity in Diabetic Individuals
Date: 25th October 2015 Duration: 75 minutes Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xavier Cos Claramunt Speakers:
"Diabetes and mental health" – Prof. Frans Pouwer (Professor at Department Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
"Diabetes and cancer"- Dr. Manel Mata Cases (Vice-chairman of the Catalan Diabetes Association and member of the board of the Spanish Diabetes Society, Barcelona, Spain)
"Diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors" – Dr. Samuel Seidu (GP and GP Trainer, Hockley Farm Medical Practice, Primary Care Research Fellow, University of Leicester, Honorary GP Lecturer and Research Associate, Leicester Diabetes Centre, UK)