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Please note:
•No registrations will be accepted without a Diabetes UK membership number.
•You will need to organise and fund your own travel to Liverpool.
•You will need to register separately for the Diabetes UK APC  at http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Annual-Professional-Conference-2010/
•You will need to send a cheque for GBP115 as a deposit payment which will be returned to you at the event. Your cheque will ONLY be cashed if you cancel your place after 2nd February 2010 and we are unable to find a replacement delegate, or if you fail to attend.
•Your cheques for holding deposit should be made payable to “Diabetes UK” and sent to Elise Harvey at Red Hot Irons Ltd, P O Box 2927, Malmesbury, SN16 0WZ.

Programme:

8.30  Registration and coffee

9.15 Welcome address (MA)

9.30 Plenary Session: Screening for Diabetes – Prof. Melanie Davies
 
10.15 The view from the top – Prof. Patrick Bell, SAC Secretary

10.45 Coffee

1100-1300 MORNING Workshops

1. Diabetic Feet – a practical guide. Dr.Fran Game

2. Consultant post in diabetes:the things I wish I knew!"  Dr.Partha Kar

3. Diabetic Retinopathy in the retinal screening era.     Mr. Steve Aldington
        
4. DAFNE Principles/CHO counting Ms. Anita Beckwith

13.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 AFTERNOON Workshops

1. Diabetes and Driving.   Prof. Brian Frier
        
2. How to get a paper published.  Prof. David Webb

3. Lipids for the diabetologist     Prof. Naveed Satar

4. The strengths and weaknesses of the lab – Know your tools      Prof. Eric Kilpatrick

16.00  Coffee

16.20 Debate- This house believes bariatric surgery is the best therapy to achieve weight loss and glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes

17.20  Chairman’s closing remarks/hand over to chair - elect

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