BIT's 4th Annual World Congress of Diabetes

Track 1: Advanced Approaches in Diabetes

Session 1-1: Diabetes Update and Prevention

• The Diabetes Market Outlook

• The Epidemiology of Diabetes: Global Concerns and Health Impact

• Future Perspectives of Exercise Therapy

• Risk Factors for Diabetes

• Management of Diabetes and Diabetes Policies

• Epidemiology of Diabetes Using Routine Data and Survey Data

• Evidence-Based, Personalized and Lifestyle Approaches to Diabetes

• Lifestyle and Exercise in Diabetes Prevention: Follow up of Finnish

• Tissue Therapies and Biologics in Diabetes

Session 1-2: Molecular Biology in Diabetes

• The Biomolecular Epidemiology of Diabetes • Monogenic Diabetes

• Maternal Genotype and Gestational Diabetes

• Genomics and Diabetes: Implications of Personalized Health

• Pharmacogenetics of Diabetes

• Advances in Health Disparities Genetics Research

• Protein Glycation in Diabetics

• Apolipoprotein B, a Marker of Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

• Prognostic Impact of Hemoglobin A1c in High-Risk Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Session 1-3: Insulin Resistance and Beta Cell Biology

• Genetics of Obesity and Insulin Resistance

• The B-Cell& Insulin Resistance

• Nuclear Receptors and Insulin Resistance

• New Roles for FGF1 in Metabolic Homeostasis and Insulin Sensitization

• Insulin Resistance and the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes

• Strategies and New Methods Overcoming Insulin Resistances

• Inflammation and Insulin Resistance

• Beta cell mass: Effects of Obesity and Aging

• Epigenome of Pancreatic Beta Cell

Session 1-4: Diagnostics and Medical Devices in Diabetes

• Continuous Glucose Monitor

• The Challenge of the Use of Glycemic Biomarkers in Diabetes

• Wireless Device Diagnostics and Therapeutics

• Novel Methods for Diabetes Diagnosis

• Drug Delivery Devices

• Urine Glucose Test

• HbA1c Test

• Oral Glucose Tolerance Tests

• Random Blood Glucose Tests

Session 1-5: Diabetes Education Work

• Diabetes Care, Mentors GLP-1ducators Programme

• Insulin Management in Primary Care

• GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Studies: Their Role in Diabetes Care

• Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Education

• Simple Education as Preventive Measure to Diabetic Foot Amputation

• New Models of Care for Long Term Conditions

• Glycemic Control in Hospitalized Patients

• Smoking and Diabetes

• Diabetes - Similarities & Differences between East & West

Session 1-6: Emerging Diabetes Drugs and Drug Targets

• Global Diabetes Markets Analysis

• Preclinical Assessment of New Diabetes Drugs

• New Molecular Targets and Biomarkers for Diabetes

• Identification of Novel Targets for Diabetes Drug

• Personalized Medicines in Diabetes

• Inhibitors for Diabetes

• Insulin Analogs

• A Novel Anti-Diabetic Peptide Nanomedicine Against Pancreatogenic Diabetes

• Insulin-Incretin Combination Therapy

Track 2: Clinical Diabetes Therapeutics /Management

Session 2-1: Hypoglycemia in Clinical Practice: Old Facts and New Perspectives

• Hypoglycemia and Diabetes: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatment

• Impaired Hypoglycemia Awareness in People with Diabetes

• The Challenges of Hypoglycemia in the Community

• Severe Hypoglycemia in End-Stage Renal Disease

• Glucagon for the Treatment and Prevention of Severe Hypoglycemia

• Residual ß-Cell Function and Severe Hypoglycemia

• Post-Exercise Hypoglycemia in People with Type 1 Diabetes

• Hypoglycemia in Hospital Inpatients with Diabetes

• Hypoglycemia in Elderly People with Diabetes

Session 2-2: Lipid Disorder, Metabolic Syndromes and Type 2 Diabetes

• An Increasing Web of Interactions in Diabetes and Obesity

• Vitamin D and Type 2 diabetes

• Inflammatory Origin of Type 2 Diabetes

• Genetic Variants Associated with Type 2 Diabetes

• New Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes

• Type 2 Diabetes Control and Complications Trial

• Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes

• The Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Lipid Levels in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

• Initial Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

Session 2-3: Nutrition and Psychology Management in Diabetes

• Medical Nutrition Therapy Principles

• Nutrition in Diabetes and Complications

• Artificial Sweetener

• Dietary Management of Diabetes

• Dietary Protein and the Blood Glucose Concentration

• Positive Psychology in Diabetes

• Understanding and Managing Diabetes: A Psychology Perspective

• Diabetes-Related Psychological Problems in Diabetes Consultations

• Psychological Stress as A Cause of Diabetes

Session 2-4: Surgical Therapy of Diabetes

• Gastric Bypass Surgery

• Biliopancreatic Diversion surgery

• Immunology of Diabetes Mellitus

• Pancreas and Islet Transplantation

• Artificial Pancreas

• Transplantation and Infectious Diseases

• Islet Cell & Regenerative Biology

• Insulin Gene Therapy

• DNA Immunotherapies for Type 1 Diabetes

Track 3: Diabetic Complications

Session 3-1: Diabetic Retinopathies, Diabetic Nephropathy and Diabetic Neuropathy

• Evaluate the Latest Clinical Development for Diabetic Retinopathy

• Diabetic Macular Edema

• Treating Diabetes Eye Disease with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

• An Animal Model of Diabetic Nephropathy that Offers Clues to Reversibility

• Molecular Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Nephropathy

• Structure-Function Relationships in Diabetic Kidney Disease

• Novel Pathogenic Pathways in Diabetic Neuropathy

• Chinese Herbal Medicine in Treatment of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

• Male & Female Sexual Dysfunction in Diabetics

Session 3-2: Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases

• Vascular Complications

• A New Mouse Model of Insulin Resistance and Increased Atherosclerosis

• Relationship of Glycemic Variability to Vascular Changes

• Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes

• Pathogenesis of Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease

• Cardiometabolic Disease Mechanisms

• Cardiovascular Effects of GLP1R Agonists

• Resistant Hypertension in Diabetes: Clinical Strategies

• Legacy Effects of Cardiovascular Outcome Studies: Metabolic Memory

Session 3-3: Inflammation, Wound Care and Diabetic Foot

• Infectious Diseases and Diabetes

• Biochemistry of Wound Healing: Role of Oxygen

• Cellular and Cytokine Profile for Wound Healing

• Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

• The Economic and Political Landscape of Diabetic Foot Care

• Physiotherapy for Diabetic Foot

• Tibial and Pedal Angioplasty

• Vascular / Limb Salvage

• Clinical Presentations of ischaemia in the Diabetic Foot

Session 3-4: Gestational Diabetes

• Screening Test for Gestational Diabetes

• Balancing Weight and Glucose in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Diet and Exercise Interventions for Preventing Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Psychological Aspects of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Clinical Care in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

• Potential Maternal and Fetal Complications

• Perinatal Changes Associated with Maternal Diabetes

• Fetal Growth in Diabetic Pregnancy

• Keys to managing DIP – diet, lifestyle and medical management