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:: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
:: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
:: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
:: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009

 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
10:00 Registration opens
14:30-18:30 Hall B Hall C

Animas Workshop - 16:00-18:30
Glucose Management Tools:  Clinical Implications of the Data (Speaker: Dr. Irl Hirsch) 

  • Blood Glucose Data Case Studies
  • Insulin Pump Software Case Studies
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring Software Case Studies

* pre-registration is required

Medtronic Diabetes Workshops

Workshop 1 - 14:30-15:30
CareLink Therapy Management Software (Speaker: Prof. Ohad Cohen) FULLY BOOKED

Workshop 2 - 16:00-17:00
CareLink Therapy Management Software (Speaker: Prof. Ohad Cohen) FULLY BOOKED

Workshop 3 - 17:30-18:30
CareLink Therapy Management Software (Speaker: Prof. Ohad Cohen) FULLY BOOKED

* pre-registration is required
** attendance is subject to approval by Medtronic

18:30

Opening Ceremony - Hall A
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 1

08:30-09:55
SESSION 1

Jay Skyler: - Hall A
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:
Does technology motivate young people to manage diabetes

 

09:55-10:30

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

THURSDAY
MORNING
SESSION 2

10:30-11:30

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

Dimitrios A. Linos:
Bariatric surgical techniques and diabetes type 2

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

 

Elizabeth Rajan:
Endoscopic interventions for obesity - present and future

THURSDAY
MORNING
SESSION 3

11:30-12:45

SESSION 3 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS

HALL A:

HALL B:

E. Cengiz
C. Dalla Man
H. Zisser
J.K. Mader
R. Hovorka
Z. Landau

A. Bohdjalian
A. Kaps
N. Kaufman
I. Rubinstein
S. Franc
J-P. Riveline
12:45-13:30

Lunch Break

THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 4

13:30-15:10

SESSION 4

HALL A:
AIDPIT SYMPOSIUM

HALL B:
P-CEZANNE SYMPOSIUM

SEVERE HYPOGLYCEMIA

CENTRAL MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS

Stephanie Amiel:
Severe Hypoglycemia - Definition, Detection, Outcome & Impact

 

Louis Shenkman - MEIR:
Overview of status of implantable glucose monitors 

 

Eric Renard:
Severe Hypoglycaemia: Solutions offered by Diabetes Technologies

Igor Lacik - PISAS:
Application of polymeric materials in the design of implantable glucose biosensor 

 

Marie-Christie Vantyghem:
Who Should Benefit from Islet Transplantation

 

Andrea Llobera – CNM:
Integrated full-field fluorescence biosensors based on hololow/sol-gel waveguides

 

Boris Kovatchev:
Can severe hypoglycemia be predicted and prevented?

 

Nissim Hai – AFI:
Central monitoring system for diabetic patients

Ugo Boggi:
When should pancreas transplantation be considered?

 

Shula Michaeli - BIU:
Monitoring extracellular glucose levels by live cells
15:10-15:40

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

THURSDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 5

15:40-16:40

SESSION 5

HALL A:
GLUCOSE VARIABILITY

HALL B:
NEW FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND 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:
Hypoglycemia and Glycemic Variability: Is it harmful and can it be controlled?

 

Moshe Hod:
Towards new diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes - Update on HAPO Study

 

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

 

LECTURE SPONSORED BY NOVO NORDISK,
Liat de Vries:
New insulin treatment options in Type 1 - emerging experience with NovoMix 70

17:00-19:30

COMPANY WORKSHOP

 

HALL B

DexCom Workshop
Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Issues That Matter Patient Use and In-Hospital Applications
* pre-registration is required

Terry Gregg:
Evolution of Continuous Sensing: DexCom's History

Satish Garg:
Practical Insights into What Matters to Patients

Thomas Danne:
CGM: A tool for parents and children - The European Experience
Jeffrey Joseph:
Opportunities and Challenges for In-Hospital CGM

Jay S. Skyler & Panel:
Q&A

Hands-on Practicum and Reception to follow the program

     

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

FRIDAY
MORNING
SESSION 6

08:30-09:55

SESSION 6

Michael Strano:
Tissue implantable biosensors based on single walled carbon nanotube near infrared fluorescence

 

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:
The continuous use of real time glucose monitoring combined with insulin pump, as a mean to normalize clucose variability and HbA1c in IDDM

 

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

 

09:55-10:30

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

10:30-12:00

 

SESSION 7 – SPONSORED SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM – MEDTRONIC (Hall A)
Chairperson: Prof. Stephanie Amiel

The Pathway of Diabetes Care: Next Steps into the Future

Prof Tadej Battelino:
Making the most of CGM Technology: Utilizing Clinical Evidence

Prof. Stephanie Amiel:
Closing the Gap Towards Closed Loop--The UK Experience

Dr. John Mastrototaro:  
Realizing the Dream of Closed Loop: Medtronic's Next Generation Devices

 12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 8

13:00-14:00

SESSION 8 – THE LOOP CLUB (Hall A)

Bruce Buckingham/E Dassau:
The Stanford-UCSB-RPI-Sansum-Schneider progress towards a closed-loop

 

Moshe Phillip/Eran Atlas:
Subcutaneous close loop studies using the S.C. MD logic system

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

14:00-15:00 JDRF Hellas Project
Coordinator: Asimina Mitrakou
Asimina Mitrakou:
Introduction: Hypoglycemia during Exercise
Andriani Vazaiou:
The advantages of Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGMS) on mountain climbing in young adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Bruce  Buckingham:
Conclusions: The use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring

 

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

15:30-17:00 SESSION 9 – SPONSORED SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM - ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GmbH (HALL A)
From Information Management to Insulin Management

Chair: Satish Garg  Co Chair: Andriani Gerasimidi-Vazeou

Ewa Pankowska:
Information Management - The value in daily live of diabetes professionals and their patients.

Thomas Danne: 
Daily live of diabetes patients - A need for special requirements in special situations.
 

Stuart Bootle/Michał Jeliński:
New solutions in pump therapy - Ways to improve Insulin Management in diabetes patients.

17:00-19:00  

HALL B:

 

Abbott Workshop:
CGM using FreeStyle Navigator in clinical practice - who, when and how?

Panel:
Gerard Reach
Jan Bolinder
Bruce Buckingham

     

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009

SATURDAY
MORNING
SESSION I0

08:30-10:10

SESSION 10

HALL A:
AIDPIT SYMPOSIUM

HALL B:

REPRODUCING INSULIN SECRETION ONGOING STUDIES - Supported by an Educational Grant from Nilimedix Ltd
Roman Hovorka:
Physiology of insulin secretion: what is needed for restoration
Irl Hirsch:
Implications of the CGM Studies: where are we now?
Roger Lehmann:
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?
Tadej Battelino:
Issues with closing the loop - critical appraisal
Paola Maffi:
How to improve islet transplantation in humans?
Arleen Pinkos:
Realistic expectations of a closed-loop; the FDA perspective
Udo Hoss:
Continuous glucose monitoring in the tissue. Do we really need to callibrate in-vivo?
Revital Nimri:
Feasibility of intravenous closed loop with I.V. MD logic system in the diabetic swine

SATURDAY
MORNING
SESSION 11

10:10-10:30

SESSION 11

HALL A:

HALL B:

Sponsored Lecture by Novo Nordisk

Sponsored Lecture by Sanofi Aventis

Giorgio Sesti:
Liraglutide: The first human GLP-1 analogue, for once daily adminsitration

 

Jay Skyler:
What’s Changed? The recently EASD / ADA Guidelines for the management of T2DM

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

SATURDAY
MORINING
SESSION 12

11:00-12:00

SESSION 12 – NOVEL STRATEGIES FOR TREATMENT OF OBESITY & DIABETES (Hall A)

Jay Skyler:
Peptide hormones for obesity

 

Vincenzo Bacci:
Gastric balloon – clinical experience and metabolic effects

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

12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

SATURDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 13

13:00-14:40

SESSION 13 – ORAL PRESENTATIONS

HALL A HALL B

J.H. Ficker
E. Dassau
H. Cormerais
D. Cox
A. Smit
B. Whitelaw
L. Laffel
A. Caduff

R. Schiel
T. Orban
W. Fendler
A. Abu-Libdeh
G. Vilk
Y. Zhao
M. Giménez
A. Langlois 

14:40-15:10

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

SATURDAY
AFTERNOON
SESSION 14

15:10-16:10

   

SESSION 14 – 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

 

16:10-16:20

Closing remarks: Moshe Phillip

*Please register for the workshops when registering for the conference, if you have already registered please contact the Registration Manager: reg_attd@kenes.com.
(Please note, space is limited and attendance at the Medtronic Workshops are subject to approval)