Preliminary Scientific Timetable

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
10:00 Registration opens
13:00-18:30 Companies’ workshops (hands-on sessions)
  Hall - TBD Hall - TBD Hall - TBD
13:00-15:30 Company Workshop Company Workshop Company Workshop
15:30-16:00      
16:00-18:30 Animas Workshop Medtronic Diabetes Workshop Company Workshop
18:30 Opening Ceremony
  Welcome greetings – Tadej Battelino
  Honoring Prof. Christos Bartsocas – Moshe Phillip
  Christos Bartsocas: Thirty-five centuries of Medical Education in Greece
  Welcome Reception
     

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009

THURSDAY
MORNING
SESSION I

SESSION 1

Jay Skyler:
Immunotherapy of Type 1 Diabetes

HALL A:
SMBG – IMPACT ON DIABETIC CONTROL

HALL B:
PATIENTS AND TECHNOLOGY

Irl Hirsch:
SMBG frequency & titration guidelines for insulin treated subjects

Lorry Laffel:
The use of new diabetes technologies in school and in the family

Boris Kovatchev:
Glucose variability - clinical relevance, assessment, and control

Gerard Reach:
Prevention of diabesity – novel approach to tackle this problem

LECTURE SPONSORED BY BAYER
Stan Telson:
Information-based tools for patients using SMBG

Deborah Christie:
Relationship between technology and motivation in children with diabetes

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

THURSDAY
MORNING
SESSION 2

SESSION 2 – ADVANCED APPROACHES TO OBESITY AND DIABETES (HALL A)

Francesco Rubino:
Mechanisms of the effect of bariatric surgical techniques on glucose metabolism.

Scott Shikora:
NeuroModulation for the Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Elizabeth Rajan:
Endoscopic interventions for obesity - present and future

 

Lunch Break

THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 3

SESSION 3

HALL A: AIDPIT SYMPOSIUM

HALL B: P-CEZANNE SYMPOSIUM

SEVERE HYPOGLYCEMIA

TBD

Stephanie Amiel:
Definition, detection, outcome & impact

Detailed program to be announced at a later stage

Eric Renard:
Solutions offered by diabetes Technologies

Detailed program to be announced at a later stage

Marie-Christie Vantyghem:
When should islet transplantation be considered?

Detailed program to be announced at a later stage

Boris Kovatchev:
Can severe hypoglycemia be predicted and prevented?

Detailed program to be announced at a later stage

Ugo Boggi:
When should pancreas transplantation be considered?

Detailed program to be announced at a later stage

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 4

SESSION 4

HALL A: GLUCOSE VARIABILITY

HALL B: CLINICAL PRACTICE

Franco Chiarelli:
Role of fasting and postprandial glycemic control on the development of diabetic complications

Natasa Ursic Bratina
The use of CSII with CGM as a treatment of choice

Bruce Bode:
TBD

TBD

J. Hans DeVries:
Glycemic variability - much ado about nothing 

TBD

17:00-19:30

COMPANIES’ WORKSHOPS

HALL A

HALL B

Abbott Workshop

DexCom Workshop
CGM: Issues that matter, outpatient use and in-hospital applications

* pre-registration is required

 

 

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

FRIDAY
MORNING
SESSION 5

SESSION 5

Michael Strano:
Near infrared glucose detection based upon implantable nanosensors

HALL A:
TECHNOLOGY – HEALTH POLICY AND BENEFIT

HALL B:
CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING

Thomas Danne:
Do we need centers of reference to implement new technologies in pediatric diabetes?

Christos Zoupas:
Experience with Guardian and Carelink

Satish Garg:
Health outcomes from CGM

Lois Jovanovic:
Utility of continuous glucose monitoring throughout pregnancy

Francine Kaufman:
Promotion of healthy lifestyle for children

John Pickup:
Fluorescence: shedding light on glucose sensing

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

10:30-12:00

SESSION 6 – SPONSORED SESSION – MEDTRONIC (Hall A)

 

Lunch Break

FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 7

SESSION 7 – THE LOOP CLUB (Hall A)

Bruce Buckingham:
The Stanford-UCSB-Denver progress towards a closed-loop

Moshe Phillip/Eran Atlas:
The Schneider experience toward closing the loop

Claudio Cobelli:
Subcutaneous model predictive control clinical trial powered by in silico studies

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

15:30-17:00

SESSION 8 – SPONSORED SESSION - ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GmbH (HALL A)

17:15-18:45

SESSION 9 – SPONSORED SESSION (HALL A)

 

 

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009

SATURDAY
MORNING
SESSION I0

SESSION 10

HALL A:
AIDPIT SYMPOSIUM

HALL B:

REPRODUCING INSULIN SECRETION

ONGOING STUDIES

Roman Hovorka:
Physiology of insulin secretion: what is needed for restoration

Irl Hirsch:
Implications of the CGM Studies: where are we now?

Roger Lehman:
How well do transplanted islet cells restore insulin secretion?

Peter Chase/ Bruce Buckingham:
Pump shut off to prevent nocturnal hypoglycemia

Chiara Dalla Man:
How can algorithm connecting glucose sensors to insulin deliver devices mimic insulin secretion?

Howard Wolpert:
Issues with closing the loop – critical appraisal

Paola Maffi:
How to improve islet transplantation in humans?

Tadej Battelino:
Realistic expectations of closed-loop

Udo Hoss:
Continuous glucose monitoring in the tissue. Do we really need to callibrate in-vivo?

Revital Nimri:
TBD

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

SATURDAY
MORINING
SESSION 11

SESSION 11 – NOVEL STRATEGIES FOR TREATMENT OF OBESITY & DIABETES (Hall A)

Jay Skyler:
Peptide hormones for obesity

Alfredo Genco:
Gastric balloon – clinical experience and metabolic effects

 

Henry Buchwald:
Metabolic/bariatric surgery in the treatment of type 2 diabetes

 

 

Lunch Break

SATURDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 12

SESSION 12 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS

HALL A

HALL B

 

 

 

 

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

SATURDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 13

SESSION 13 – FRONTIERS IN DIABETES TECHNOLOGIES (Hall A)

Christophe De Block:
Use of continuous glucose monitoring in critical illness/ICU

George Eisenbarth:
Next generation genome sequencing: implications for type 1 diabetes

 

Paolo Pozzilli:
CSII to protect residual beta cell function in type 1 diabetes

 

 

Closing remarks: Moshe Phillip