Facilitated ADS Clinical Poster: Challenges in optimising glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes
Tracks
Breakout 2: Room 6
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Exhibition Hall |
Speaker
Assoc Prof Sarah Glastras
Head Of Department And Senior Staff Specialist
Northern Sydney Endocrine Centre
Associations between tirzepatide-treatment and bodily pain in people with obesity: post-hoc analysis of SURMOUNT trials
1:30 PM - 1:36 PMBiography
A/Prof Glastras is a clinician researcher, Head of Department and Senior Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at the Royal North Shore Hospital and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She also consults in a busy private endocrinology practice in St Leonards, Sydney. She runs many clinical studies in the areas of diabetes and obesity. Her research spans from preclinical mouse models of obesity to large investigator initiated clinical trials, with a special interest in obesity and pregnancy.
Prof Elif Ekinci
Head Of Department, Medicine Melbourne Medical School
University of Melbourne
Treatment with dual agonist improves eating behaviour in people living with overweight/obesity
1:36 PM - 1:42 PMBiography
Professor Elif Ekinci is Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Director of ACADI. A clinician-researcher in diabetes, she has shaped national guidelines and led transformative initiatives to improve diabetes care, research equity, and outcomes across Australia.
Dr Richard Yang
Advance Trainee
Campbelltown Hospital
The impact of type 2 diabetes and glycaemic control on the severity of sleep related breathing disorders in adults with class 3 obesity
1:42 PM - 1:48 PMBiography
Dr Richard Yang is an Advanced Trainee in General Medicine with a MD and a MMed in Advanced Metabolic Health from the University of Sydney. He has a strong clinical and academic interest in metabolic health, with a particular emphasis on managing and understanding type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Ms Mahtab Tabesh
PhD Student
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Hypoglycaemia is associated with dementia in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression
1:54 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Mahtab is a PhD student at La Trobe University and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. Her research is focused on complications of diabetes, especially non-traditional ones, including dementia. She uses epidemiology to uncover the role of risk factors in the development and progression of these complications.
Miss Renee Ng
Medical Student
University of Western Australia
Comparing clinical and biochemical features of hyperglycaemic and euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis associated with SGLT2-Inhibitors: A systematic review of case reports
2:00 PM - 2:06 PMBiography
Renee Ng is a Final Year Medical Student from The University of Western Australia. Renee's interest lies greatly in Internal Medicine and Clinical Research.
Miss Sadan Taher
Medical Student
University of New South Wales
Cohort analysis of SGLT2 inhibitor-induced diabetic ketoacidosis in hospitalised people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
2:06 PM - 2:12 PMBiography
Sadan Taher is a fifth-year medical student at UNSW with a keen interest in endocrinology. Following her involvement in a 5-month review of glycemic and admission metrics of people with T2DM last year, she expanded her analysis this year. Passionate about research and clinical care, she aspires to pursue endocrinology.
Chairperson
Ruth Frampton
Phd Student
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Ted Wu
Senior Specialist Endocrinologist And Director Of The Diabetes Centre
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
