WONCA EUROPE REGION CONFERENCE 2015

(22/10/15 - 25/10/15 from 08:00 - 18:00)

WONCA is the World Organization of Family Doctors and National Colleges and Associations. WONCA has a global branch (WONCA World) and regional branches, WONCA Europe Region being the largest in member numbers and –as most of the state of the art primary care systems are located in Europe – most influential one.

WONCA Europe Region holds international regional meeting annually rotating in member countries. These meetings are usually attended by 6000-8000 international delegates, mainly from Europe, but also from other regions like North America and Canada, the Middle and Far East and Australia. The expected number of registrations for the WONCA Europe Region Conference 2015 in Istanbul is around 6000.

PCDE is the official Special Interest Group (SIG) for Diabetes within WONCA Europe Region. Therefore, PCDE is asked by the local organizers of WONCA Europe Region regional conferences to contribute to the scientific program related to diabetes.

The next WONCA Europe Region Conference taking place in October 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey will be special, because – apart from its rich scientific programme- the 20th anniversaries of WONCA Europe Region and of TAHUD (Turkish Association of Family Physicians, which is the local organizer) will be celebrated by this occasion, as well.

PCDE has five sessions within the official scientific program of WONCA Europe Region 2015, constituting the backbone of the diabetes track of the conference (which will also include the oral presentation sessions and poster talks with diabetes abstracts).

WONCA Europe Region 22-25 October 2015, Istanbul – Turkey

PCDE organises a diabetes track of five sessions within the conference.

[Session 1] Course. How to start and manage insulin therapy in primary care

Date: 22nd October 2015
Duration: 75 minutes
Aim: to build competence about the principles of insulin therapy in primary care

Facilitators:

  • Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Sargin (Family Medicine Clinic Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Kartal Lufti Kirdar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey)
  • Assoc. Prof. Xavier Cos Claramunt (Unit of Clinical Trials, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

[Session 2] Symposium. DAWN2

Date: 23rd October 2015
Duration: 75 minutes
Aim: to gain insight into the perceptions and expectations about diabetes from people with diabetes and  healthcare professionals, to enable better awareness for patient centeredness by this comparison

Chair: Prof. Dr. Johan Wens

Speakers:

  • Dr. Antonio Niccollucci (Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy)
  • Prof. Richard Holt (Professor in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Southampton, UK)
  • Dr. Ingrid Willaing (National Lead Investigator DAWN2-Study, Head of Patient Education Research at Universities, Copenhagen, Denmark)

[Session 3] Symposium. EXPLORE

Date: 23rd October 2015
Duration: 75 minutes
Aim: to discuss the EXPLORE study (EXpert and Patient views on living with and controlling type 2 diabetes) which was created to understand the complexity of T2DM management by discovering similarities and differences in perceptions of primary care providers and patients

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Pinar Topsever

Speakers:

  • Prof. Peter Schwarz (Professor of Internal Medicine, Head of the Department of Prevention and Care of Diabetes at the Technical University Dresden, Germany)
  • Prof. Johan Wens (Professor of Family Medicine University of Antwerp, Belgium – Chairman PCDE)
  • Dr. Martin Hadley-Brown (GP partner in Thetford, Norfolk. Clinical Tutor, University of Cambridge Clinical School, UK)

[Session 4] Symposium. Clinical management of elderly people with diabetes

Date: 24th October 2015
Duration: 75 minutes
Aim: to understand the provision of a multidimensional integrated approach to the comprehensive management of diabetes in older people

Chair: Dr. Samuel Seidu

Speakers:

  • Dr. Leocadio Rodriguez Manas (Head of Department of Geriatrics at the University Hospital of Getafe, Medicine Faculty at the University of Madrid, Spain)
  • Assoc. Prof. Serap Cifcili (Family Medicine Department, Marmara University Medical School, Turkey)
  • Dr. Berry van der Steen (General Practitioner, member of the Diabetes Huisartsen Advies Groep “DiHAG”, Netherlands)

[Session S] Symposium. Is Diabetes the Index Disease? Co- and Multimorbidity in Diabetic Individuals

Date: 25th October 2015
Duration: 75 minutes

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xavier Cos Claramunt

Speakers:

  • “Diabetes and mental health” – Prof. Frans Pouwer (Professor at Department Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • “Diabetes and cancer”- Dr. Manel Mata Cases (Vice-chairman of the Catalan Diabetes Association and member of the board of the Spanish Diabetes Society, Barcelona, Spain)
  • “Diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors” – Dr. Samuel Seidu (GP and GP Trainer, Hockley Farm Medical Practice, Primary Care Research Fellow, University of Leicester, Honorary GP Lecturer and Research Associate, Leicester Diabetes Centre, UK)

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