ADEA Symposium: Paediatric to Adult Transition Care
Tracks
Breakout 5: BelleVue Ballroom 1
Wednesday, August 21, 2024 |
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
BelleVue Ballroom 1 |
Speaker
Dr Daphne Gardner
Senior Consultant
Singapore General Hospital
ADEA Symposium: Paediatric to Adult Transition Care
Biography
Dr Daphne Gardner graduated from Oxford University (UK) [BA (Physiological Sciences), BMBCh (Oxon)] and was a clinical lecturer in Plymouth (UK) before attaining specialist accreditation in Endocrinology in Singapore. Her fellowship year was spent in the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, UK. She now serves as a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist and lead clinician for Young Adults with Diabetes, Monogenic diabetes and the Intensive Insulin programme (including pumps and CGM) in Singapore General Hospital. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Director of Education in the SingHealth-Duke Disease Centre for Diabetes. She has held 2 grants aimed at stratifying diabetes to direct personalised therapy, and a Ministry of Health (Singapore) grant in the use of flash glucose monitoring to enhance diabetes education in type 2 diabetes.
Jacqueline Anne Curran
Paediatric Endocrinologist
Perth Children's Hospital
Youth onset Type 2 Diabetes, looking beyond TODAY
Biography
Dr Curran is a paediatric endocrinologist at Perth Childrens Hospital. She is head of service for the Healthy Weight Service, a tertiary clinical service for children affected by severe and complicated obesity and clinical lead of the youth onset type 2 diabetes service.
Mr Mark Shah
Nurse Practitioner
Perth Children's Hospital
Transition – Is there anything different about Youth type 2 diabetes?
Biography
Mark has been a Registered Nurse for 26 years, a Nurse Practitioner for 16 years and CDE since 2003. In 2021 Mark was awarded the National and WA CDE of the Year award. When Mark started his career, he quickly learned about the optimism of technology, new treatments and the everyday struggles of people living with diabetes, which continue today. He provides care for children and families with diabetes of all types, particularly youth onset T2D where he is also collaborating on several research studies.
Dr Ashley Ng
POC Chair
Australian Diabetes Educators Association
Chairperson
Biography
Dr Ashley Ng is a diabetes advocate, a diabetes researcher and accredited practising dietitian. Her lived experience has led to her passion in consumer and community involvement in research and healthcare improvement. Ashley's areas of interest in research include supporting young adults with diabetes during life transitions, digital health solutions in diabetes care and community engagement, including peer support.