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ADS Clinical Orals: Type 1 Diabetes

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Breakout 4: River Room 4
Friday, August 23, 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
River Room 4

Speaker

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Prof Alicia Jenkins
Clinical Research Domain Head
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Attainment of Traditional Risk Factor Targets in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Biography

Alicia Jenkins is an endocrinologist and clinician researcher with an interest in the prediction and prevention of diabetes complications and the use of technology in diabetes care. She is affiliated with the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, University of Melbourne, Monash University and St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
Dr Sarah Abdo
Co-Head of Department, Diabetes and Endocrinology
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital

Type 1 Diabetes Patient Treatment Journey – A Longitudinal Oservational study of a Young Adult Clinic (YAC)

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Biography

Dr Sarah Abdo is the Co-head of Department at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Diabetes centre. She leads the Young Adult Clinic, a multidisciplinary service for young people with Diabetes as well as the Metabolic Health Clinic for patients with diabetes and obesity.
Dr Jeffrey Cannon
Health Economist
Telethon Kids Institute

Optimal R&D Spending on Treatments and Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey Cannon is an early career researcher specialising in global disease burden, health economics, childhood health, Indigenous health, equality, and policy. His research interests lie in generating timely information on the full health, economic, and social burdens of disease and in developing and applying traditional and new epidemiology and economic models to facilitate policy decisions. Dr Cannon earned a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Western Australia in 2019 and previously received an Honours degree in Mathematics after a BSc (Mathematics) and BBus (Finance) dual degree.
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Dr Michael Huang
Senior Research Fellow
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Predicting Chronic Complications in 1100 adults with Type 1 diabetes: High Risk Rates and Concordance between Type 1 Diabetes-specific risk calculators.

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

Dr. Huang is a senior research fellow in the Diabetes and Vascular Medicine Laboratory (Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He has produced 47 papers with >16000 citations in high-impact journals & 1 patent in novel therapeutics. His current research seeks to better predict and elucidate the development of diabetes complication.
Prof Timothy Davis
Professor of Medicine
University of Western Australia

Prevalence of Autoimmune Diabetes among Aboriginal Australians: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Biography

Timothy Davis is an academic endocrinologist and general physician based at Fremantle Hospital. He is Principal Investigator of the Fremantle Diabetes Study, a community-based longitudinal observational study which has been running since 1993.
Prof Timothy Davis
Professor of Medicine
University of Western Australia

Application of a Validated Prognostic Protein Biomarker test for Renal Decline in Type 2 diabetes to Type 1 Diabetes: The Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

Biography

Professor Timothy Davis is a Professor of Medicine at the University of WA and a Consultant Physician at Fremantle and Fiona Stanley Hospitals. He has active clinical and research interests in diabetes/endocrinology. He has been principal investigator of the longitudinal observational Fremantle Diabetes Study since its inception in 1993.
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Prof Alicia Jenkins
Clinical Research Domain Head
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

REMOVAL Substudy: Relationship between Peripheral Augmentation Index and Renal Function Decline in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

Biography

David Chen is a cardiology trainee at Ryde Hospital, Sydney and a MPhil candidate at Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He has strong interests in cardiometabolic disease and is currently undertaking a MPhil looking at cardiometabolic outcomes and effects of adjunct glucose lowering therapies in adults with type 1 diabetes.
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Dr Jennifer Snaith
Endocrinologist
St Vincent's Hospital Sydney

Metformin reduces Insulin dose independent of changes in Insulin resistance in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: results from INTIMET, a 26-week, randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Biography

Dr Snaith is a Staff Specialist Endocrinologist and leads the young adult diabetes transition service at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. In her PhD studies, she performed hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamps to measure muscle and liver insulin resistance in type 1 diabetes and determine the effect of metformin on insulin resistance in type 1 diabetes. She is involved with adjunctive therapies clinical trials in type 1 diabetes through the Garvan Institute, including the INTIMET study (metformin), RESET1 (semaglutide), TIRTLE (tirzepatide). Jen’s post-doctoral work is a supported by JDRF Australia.
Prof Jane Holmes-Walker
Senior Staff Specialist
Westmead Hospital

Chairperson

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Biography

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Dr Michelle So
Endocrinologist/Clinical Research Fellow
St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research/Royal Melbourne Hospital

Chairperson

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Biography

Michelle So is a Clinical Research Fellow at St Vincent’s Institute and endocrinologist at Royal Melbourne and Northern Hospitals. She obtained her PhD in 2018 investigating C-peptide as a target of peripheral T-cells in type 1 diabetes. Michelle completed post-doctoral research in the area of type 1 diabetes prevention and translational immunology at the Diabetes Clinical Research Program at Benaroya Research Institute (Seattle, USA) in 2019-2020. Michelle is the education and training lead for the Australasian Type 1 Diabetes Immunotherapy Collaborative (ATIC).
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