Friday, 29th August Australian Diabetes Society and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting 2014

The start & finish will be outside the front of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf

*Recorded Session*

*GP CME Eligible Session*

• Using technology and social media in your practice to improve outcomes in diabetes care - Natalie Wischer
• Secure, Paperless and Efficient - Using technology to build, run and manage YOUR practice - Sid Verma
• “Watson – From Jeopardy to Healthcare” - Annette Hicks
• Diabetes Apps 101 - Alison Lancaster

*Recorded Session*

*GP CME Eligible Session*

• Hypoglycaemia and the developing brain - Fergus Cameron
• Hypoglycemia Update - Tim Jones
• Hypoglycaemia: Have we underestimated the problem in patients with Diabetes? - Sophia Zoungas
• Adrenaline and the Glucose Counterregulatory Response: An Orexinergic Connection - Tony J Verberne

• HSP72 prevents peripheral tissue lipotoxicity and preserves insulin sensitivity by increasing oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle - Darren Henstridge
• Reducing C16:0 ceramide via ablation of CerS6, but not CerS5, protects against HFD-induced obesity and WAT inflammation - Hayley T Nicholls
• Imbalanced PKA-calcineurin signaling impairs mitochondrial health and insulin action in skeletal muscle deficient in estrogen-receptor alpha (ERα) - Brian G Drew
• AMPK control of hypothalamic lipid metabolism: regulation of appetite and body weight. - Sandra Galic
• Rapid Identification of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Genes Using The ‘Gene Mine’  - Salvatore P Mangiafico
• In vivo overexpression of the mitochondrial deacylase SIRT3 in muscle has no effect on glucose metabolism and peripheral insulin resistance in the high fat fed rat - Brenna Osborne
• Overexpression of Acyl CoA thioesterase7 in the skeletal muscle increases fatty acid oxidation - Ishita Bakshi
• SIRT1 improves metabolic function in mice - Hassina Massudi

• Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate: the Performance of the CKD-EPI Equation over time in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. - Anna J Wood
• Inverse relationship of urinary protein fragments to albumin excretion rate in Type 2 Diabetes - Michele Clarke
• Diabetic Foot Complications and Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study in a High Risk Cohort - Joan Li
• Anaemia complicating diabetes: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II - Richard Gauci
• Improved survival in type 2 diabetic patients hospitalised with an acute coronary syndrome between 1992 and 2007: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase I - Timothy ME Davis
• Age of diagnosis associated with age at first myocardial infarction in type 2 diabetes - Natalie Nanayakkara
• Why do people with younger onset type 2 diabetes have more retinopathy? - Maria I Constantino
• The use of Serum Fibrotic Markers to predict NAFLD in obese subjects undergoing bariatric surgery. - Azni Abdul-Wahab

• Intermittent fasting diets for diabetes – safety, effectiveness and potential improvements - Amanda (Sainsbury) Salis
• The high protein-low GI diet for diabetes - Jennie Brand-Miller
• Paleo and low-carbohydrate diets for diabetes: today's fads or tomorrow’s advice? - Tim Crowe
• The Mediterranean Diet: Optimal Solution for Diabetes Management? - Catherine Itsiopoulos

*Recorded Session*

*GP CME Eligible Session*

• Is a high carbohydrate diet essential for all exercisers regardless of their state of insulin resistance? - Timothy Noakes
• Strengths and Limitations of Some of the Current Strategies to Prevent Exercise-Mediated Hypoglycaemia in Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes  - Paul A Fournier
• Reducing and breaking up sedentary time as a potential management tool for patients with type 2 diabetes - David Dunstan
• “Exercise-snacking” to improve glucose control - John A Hawley

*Recorded Session*

*GP CME Eligible Session*

• Title to be provided - Rury Holman
• Moving beyond statins: the potential of PCSK9 inhibition for reducing cardiovascular risk - Richard C O'Brien
• Clinical Trials in the New Insulin Glargine 300 U/mL in Type 2 Diabetes - Stephen Twigg

• FIRST EVALUATION OF AN ORTHOGONALLY REDUNDANT GLUCOSE SENSOR IN PEOPLE WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES - Sybil A McAuley
• An analysis of clinician contacts in the long term management of insulin pumps compared with an intensive insulin adjustment programme - Michele Mack
• Impact of Islet Cell Transplantation (ICT) on long-term diabetes complications two years post transplant - Jane Holmes-Walker
• Profiling organ-specific autoimmunity in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults - Spiros Fourlanos
• Glycaemic Variability is Associated with Adverse Psychological Well-being in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes  - Daniel Fineberg
• Response of the Physiological Tremor and Catacholamines to Induced Hypoglycaemia in Type 1 Diabetes and Non-diabetic Controls. - Richard Burnet
• Incidence and determinants of minor and major hypoglycaemia in type 2 diabetes - Rebecca Goldstein
• Intensification from basal insulin in type 2 diabetes? Retrospective audit of clinical practice from four Australian centres - Gregory Fulcher

• Fattening and Sweetening of Haematopoietic Stem Cells: Effects on Monocyte Production - Andrew Murphy
• Dietary fibre induces gut homeostasis through metabolite-sensing GPCRs and regulation of the inflammasome pathway - Laurence Macia
• Re-examining the role of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) as a sensor of free fatty acids - Graeme Lancaster
• Mechanism of Tolerance to Proinsulin in NOD mice - Bala Krishnamurthy

Lunch boxes will be provided.

*Recorded Session*

*GP CME Eligible Session*

1:30 PM                  Lunch

2:30 PM                  Debate - "Is the target realistic?"

                            Moderator: Trisha Dunning

                            Health Professionals: John Wentworth & Adam Roberts

                            Consumers: Monique Hanley & Renza Scibilia 

3:15 PM                  How exercise has helped me cope with the stresses of       diabetes

                            Monique Hanley

4:00 PM                  Afternoon Tea and Networking