Other Postgraduate courses

ISPAD-Cambodia Health Ministry-CDIC-GIZ Training of Trainers (ToT) Project Summary (2019-2020)

The initial project was proposed to ISPAD and initiated by the Cambodian Health Ministry to specifically focus on children with type 1 diabetes. Dr Stu Brink has been the organizer on behalf of ISPAD and in August 2019, he visited for two weeks: lecturing for a full week with about 30 different lectures translated into the local Khmer language based on the ISPAD-CDIC pediatric and adolescent training manual. During the first week meetings were held with physician participants and organizers, a local NGO called GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur International Zusammenarbeit) as well as with national ministry and several hospital leaders/directors and department chiefs.

The second Educational course involved a multidisciplinary team in December 2019, consisting of Stu Brink, Johnny Ludvigsson, Anju Virmani, Angie Middlehurst and Alan Delamater. The course included translated lectures as well as small group moderated sessions. There was great enthusiasm with participation of both nurses and physicians, adult and pediatric specialists already working with youngsters with diabetes but also interested in organizing and growing such a program. The ISPAD Guidelines in addition to the CDIC training manual formed the basis for this second set of 5 full days of lectures.

The first lecture series covered basic diabetes education approaches, educational theory and motivational interviewing, DKA earlier identification and optimized treatment as well as referrals to tertiary well trained centers around Cambodia. This covered the basics of food insecurity, financial insecurity as well as nutrition guidelines, activity/exercise effects, sick day rules, older less expensive insulin preparations as well as insulin pumps and sensors with a vision of what will be possible in coming years with such collaborative government and medical facility approaches.

At the second session in December 2019 after each plenary we split up into small discussion groups to review the lectures, see what might need to be adapted to their current level of care, have an opportunity for more interactive group learning and each of us led groups where the doctors and the nurses separately successfully were encouraged to ask more questions and have more detailed discussions about what we had presented. All the ISPAD lecturers were fantastic, worked and supported each other’s information presented and expanded it in a marvelous fashion.

The program was intended to have further Educational Sessions during early and late 2020 but has been on hold because of the coronavirus travel restrictions and safety concerns

22-24 November, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic

Participants had a unique opportunity to listen to and interact with experts and researchers in the field of diabetes from all over Europe in an informal setting. During lectures and workshops, faculty members shared their knowledge and clinical experiences and participants gained new insights in the treatment of type 1 diabetes and its complications.

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17-19 April, 2018, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

A workshop was held in Uzbekistan from 17-19 April 2018 by LFAC and ISPAD.

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3-4 February 2017

This ISPAD Diabetes Education Program, providing a Clinical Science Update on Pediatric Diabetes, attracted nearly 100 physicians from Mexico. Attendees heard numerous lectures related to standards of care and new approaches to optimizing the biomedical and psychosocial outcomes of pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients living with diabetes. 

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An ISPAD Postgraduate course entitled “An Update on Type 1 Diabetes management” was held in Athens, Greece, 2-3 December, 2016.

Approximately 150 participants (pediatric-endocrinologists, pediatricians and allied professionals) from Greece, Balkan and near eastern countries attended and were actively involved in the discussions on all aspects of pediatric diabetes.

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Mumbai, India, April 17, 2016

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In collaboration with ISPAD

14th-15th April, 2016, Cairo, Egypt

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Dates: August 13 - 16, 2008
Local Convener: Dr Kuben Pillay, paediatric endocrinologist at Westville and Albert Luthui Hospitals, Durban

• 2008 Conference highlights

• Abstracts from ISPAD 2008 in Durban, South Africa
  
  Index of authors
  Invited speakers
  Oral presentations
  Posters WED01-WED576
  Posters THU01-THU56

  Abstracts in Pediatric Diabetes 2008;9(Suppl 10) (with kind permission from Pediatric Diabetes).

The 2nd ISPAD Postgraduate Course and Conference “CONTEMPORARY DIABETES” will take place at the “Golden Sands” resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 25-27 April 2013. After the success of the Ist ISPAD Postgraduate Course in 2011, local organizers (Varna Pediatric Endocrine Society, VAPES) aim to attract any interested pediatric diabetologists and endocrinologists, pediatricians, medical students and diabetes nurses in 2013.

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April 19-23, 2006, Santiago de Chile, Hotel Crown Plaza

Curso Internacional Diabetes en niños y adolescentes 2006

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3rd ISPAD Postgraduate Course in Varna, Bulgaria

Second announcement

The III^rd ISPAD Postgraduate Course and Conference “FUTURE DIABETES” will take place at the“Golden Sands” resort, Varna, Bulgaria, 24-26 April 2015.

After the success of the I^st and II^nd ISPAD Postgraduate Course in 2011 and 2013, local organizers (Varna Pediatric Endocrine Society, VAPES) aim to attract any interested pediatric diabetologists and endocrinologists, pediatricians, medical students and endocrine nurses in 2015.

The topics concentrate on current state-of-the-art therapy bridging the future of diabetes in children and adolescents, alongside the ways to solve problems. At the same time, genetics of diabetes and short stature as a ongoing hot-topic will be presented. Our distinguished speakers are Carine de Beaufort (currently the ISPAD Secretary), Orit Pinhas-Hamiel, Khalid Hussain, Jan Maarten Wit, Stenvert Drop, Abdullah Bereket, Elisa De Franco, Edna Majaliwa. Apart from the lectures, participants will be provided with access to the ESPE e-learning portal with the possibility to listen to and interact with the authors (“blended learning”), as well as to vote on several relevant patient presentations.

Two MTE sessions are planned, with the possibility that everybody takes part:

MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE NEONATAL HYPOGLYCEMIA: Prof. Dr. Khalid Hussain, GOSH, London, UK.

A CHALLENGING PATIENT WITH DIABETES: Prof. Dr. Abdullah Bereket, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.

THE VENUE: “Golden Sands” Resort is situated near Varna - 12 km away from the city centre. The 4-star “Kaliakra Hotel” and 5-star “Admiral” hotels are offering nice atmosphere, excellent service and unbeatable prices of 30 Euros per bed in a double room to 42 Euros per single room per night, incl. breakfast. Final program, registration and accommodation details as well as possible updates can be found at www.vapesbg.org

Sponsors from the pharmaceutical industry (listed in alphabetical order for the moment):

• Berlin-Chemie
• Eli Lilly
• Medtronic
• Merck
• Novo Nordisk
• Pfizer
• Sandoz
• Sanofi
• and others