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Scientific Programme

1000 - 1730 Registration and Materials Pick-Up
1000 - 1800 *IDF-WPR Council Meeting
1200 - 1600 Pre-congress Workshop:
How to Run an Effective CGMS and Insulin Pump Program.
Sponsored by Medtronic


Why Insulin Pump Therapy?
- Overview of Pump Therapy – Evidence in T1 and T2
- Case studies
- Question & Answer Session
- Practicum Session
(Duration: 50 Mins)
Pratik Choudhary

How is Pump Therapy Used in Your Centre?
- Practicum Session
- Best Practice Sharing
- Practicum Session
(Duration: 50 Mins)
Pratik Choudhary

The Value of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) - iPro2
- Intro to iPro2
- Benefits of iPro2
- Essentials of Running an iPro2 Clinic
- Reports Interpretation – Adjustments to Current Therapy / Rationale for Insulin Pump Therapy
- Question & Answer Session
- Practicum Session
(Duration: 50 Mins)
Pratik Choudhary

Best Practices Sharing
Running iPro2 and Insulin Pump Programs at Tertiary Level
- iPro2 Experience Sharing from Malaysia UMMC
(Duration: 20 Mins)
Alex Tan

- Insulin Pump Experience Sharing from Singapore Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH)
(Duration: 20 Mins)
Angela Koh

- Experience Sharing from United Kingdom
(Duration: 20 Mins)
Pratik Choudhary

Question & Answer Session
Pre-congress Workshop:
Essentials of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Sponsored by Ethicon


Opening Remarks:
Asim Shabbir

Video Session:
- A brief introduction to current metabolic procedures

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
Shah Shashank

Laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass
Asim Shabbir

Laparoscopic gastric band
Suthep Udomsawaengsup

- Beyond BMI: Patient selection for bariatric and metabolic surgery
Khoo Chin Meng

- IDF Guidelines for treating diabetes: Appropriate utilization of metabolic surgery – implications of surgery.
David Cummings

- Common complications of Bariatric surgery
Suthep Udomsawaengsup

Question & Answer Session
Mechanistic insights into obesity & type 2 diabetes from bariatric to metabolic surgery
David Cummings

Other metabolic procedures: a futuristic insight
Lee Wei-Jei

Durability of metabolic surgery in morbidly obese diabetic – clinical updates
Tham Kwang Wei

Metabolic surgery in low BMI Type II diabetic patients: what is the evidence?
Shah Shashank
1330 - 1730 **Pre-congress Symposium:
Clinical Diabetes Education: How Effective Are We?
Organised by Association of Diabetes Educators Singapore (ADES)


Guest Of Honour:
Dr Pauline Tan
Chief Nursing Officer
Ministry of Health, Singapore


a. Strategies for change in people with diabetes
Julie Seow

b. The effectiveness of diabetes education: From research to reality
Jo Jo Kwan

c. Managing older people with diabetes
Trisha Dunning

d. Clinical diabetes education in Taiwan
Yeh Mei Chang

e. Living well with diabetes
Heng Pei Yan

f. Nocturnal hypoglycaemia in diabetes
Winnie Chui
1600 - 2000 Pre-congress Workshop:
The Continuum of Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes
Sponsored by Novo Nordisk


- Interactive case studies
Chantal Mathieu

- Coffee break

- Insuline in combination with other anti-diabetes agents in advanced type 2 diabetes.
Chantal Mathieu

- Dinner
Pre-congress Workshop:
Nutrition in Diabetes
Sponsored by Abbott and Singapore General Hospital (SGH)


Introduction: Optimizing diabetes management (role of nutrition)
Daphne Gardner

Nutritional management of T2D
Kala Adaikan

Advanced Carbohydrate counting
Kala Adaikan

Food label reading
Switch over with:
Identifying nutrients in food and carbohydrate counting
Answers review

Tea break

Principles of DAFNE management
1. DAFNE overview
Goh Su-Yen

2. DAFNE eating principles
Kala Adaikan

3. Concept of insulin titration
Daphne Gardner

4. Sick day rules
Lim Huee Boon

5. Physical activity
Kala Adaikan

6. Referral Criteria and Wrap up
Daphne Gardner

The programme may be subject to some modification and is accurate as of 20 November 2014.

*IDF-WPR Council Meeting is by invite only.
**Please be advised that this pre-congress symposium requires separate registration and fee. Those interested to attend can email us at .

 
 
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