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Seattle Sweden Diabetes Awareness Day


3rd Annual Seattle Sweeden Diabetes Awareness Day

Saturday, October 18: 10am – 4pm
Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, WA

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TRIGGERS, TREATMENTS, TRENDS IN TYPE 1 DIABETES

Moderator:

Pat Cashman, Emmy Award Winning Television and Radio Personality

10:00

Opening Remarks and Introductions

10:05

Type 1 Diabetes Today
Cate Pihoker, M.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Annelie Carlsson, M.D.,Ph.D. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

10:45

Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and the Artificial Pancreas Project (APP)
Irl Hirsch, M.D. University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Aaron Kowalski, Ph.D., Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, New York.

11.30

Diabetes and Your Family – putting it all together
Joe Solowiejczyk, R.N., M.S.W., C.D.E., Animas Corp., New York.

12:30-1:30

Lunch and Exhibits

1:30

Triggers of Diabetes – News from TEDDY
William Hagopian, M.D., Ph.D., Pacific NW Diabetes Research Institute, Seattle, WA

Åke Lernmark, Ph.D., FACP, University Hospital MAS, Malmö, Sweden

2:00

Can we vaccinate against type 1 diabetes?
Johnny Ludvigsson, M.D.,Ph.D., Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Jerry P. Palmer, M.D. University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2:30

Can beta cells grow back?
Carla Greenbaum, M.D., Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA

Olle Korsgren, M.D., Ph.D., Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

3:00

Diabetes: Power of One
Key note speaker
Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., Rear Admiral and former Surgeon General of the United States

3:30

Conclusion – Exhibition Open

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

1:00

Kids and Diabetes
Joe Solowiejczyk, R.N., M.S.W., C.D.E.

2:00

Diabetes Download – show and tell
Lisa Gilliam, M.D., Ph.D., Seattle
Dori Kahpour, R.D. Seattle


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