Diabetes Youth Conference report 6: Dr Carol Atmore.

10 September 2009
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I didn’t take that many notes during Dr Atmore’s talk, which is not to say that I didn’t enjoy it or get a lot out of it. Dr Atmore is a GP living in Greymouth, who recently had a son diagnosed with Type 1. I’ve often thought how lucky I am that I live in Auckland and have easy access to a variety of services as and when I need them. In the last year I’ve been to North Shore Hospital to be hooked up to a CGMS; to Waitakere for my regular care, again to Waitakere to get my retinopathy screening done, and of course to Auckland Hospital for the fantastic level of care I’ve had pre-pregnancy and during…

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By Nic on 10 September 2009 at 9.26 pm
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 5: Dr Craig Jefferies.

8 September 2009
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Dr Craig Jefferies is a Paediatric Endocrinologist, and the Director of Diabetes at Auckland Starship Hospital. I was looking forward to hearing him speak as his topic was listed as ‘latest technology and treatments’, which anyone who reads this blog will know I’m a fan of. To be honest, he didn’t reveal anything neeeew-new: in fact if you’ve been reading this blog or keeping an eye on overseas trends in general, you would have been nodding along, more than furiously taking notes for researching later. Nonetheless, he was a great speaker, and had us all paying full attention for the whole time he spoke. Some of the nuggets I picked up from his talk:

The kids with diabetes coming through

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By Nic on 8 September 2009 at 8.25 am
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 4: Elissa Renouf.

2 September 2009
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Again, Elissa being part of the conference was a big drawcard for me. I first read about Elissa and her amazing ways with her family a couple of years ago, and the company she started in order to make products for kids with diabetes, Diabete-Ezy.

For those of you who are less familiar with Elissa – here’s a quick background on her. Married to Australian Rugby League fella Steve Renouf (they were high school sweethearts), Elissa has five children: four boys and one girl. Three of the boys have type 1 diabetes, as well as Steve – so in a family of seven, 57% of them have type 1. Of the three boys who have diabetes,…

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By Nic on 2 September 2009 at 8.56 pm
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 3: Dr Jinny Willis.

1 September 2009
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Dr Jinny Willis talked to us about the Lipid and Diabetes Research she’s been undertaking since 1992. Unfortunately for Jinny she had the dreaded after lunch slot, and unfortunately for us her presentation contained a lot of graphs (many of them quite hard to read from a distance), so I didn’t take all that many notes. Here is what I did get down though:

NZ has really high rates of T1 (I just looked this up and if you look closely at Fig 1 at this link you’ll see we rank sixth in the world… the top ten being Finland, Sweden, Canada, Norway, U.K, NZ, Kuwait, Peurto Rico, Denmark, U.S.A, with

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By Nic on 1 September 2009 at 9.19 am
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Diabetes Youth Conference report 2: Professor Bob Elliott.

28 August 2009
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This is the man who I really wanted to see at this conference and he didn’t disappoint. He actually turned out to be more personable and charming than I’d expected, and I already have a very high opinion of this man so that was a great surprise.

Anyone who’s read this blog will get the impression I’m pretty interested in the xenotransplantation progress (pig cell trials) so I was delighted to be sitting a few rows away from the man who’s been pioneering these for so many years.

As I did for the overall summary, it’s probably best if I just bullet point it out for you. Here goes:

Prof Elliott did his first research project into cell transplants 49

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By Nic on 28 August 2009 at 7.19 am
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