American Diabetes Association Meeting Kicks Off This Weekend

The 77^th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association is being held in San Diego this weekend, June 9 through June 13, and Pharmacy Times will bring you all the latest diabetes news from this meeting.

Main events include the President’s Oral Session on Tuesday, June 13, from 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m., which will feature the planning committee’s picks of the best research conducted by students. A symposium presented by the Foot Care Interest Group for its 30^th Anniversary, which will be held on Saturday, June 10, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. will discuss how treatments have improved in this area of study over the past 3 decades.

Central themes for this year’s meeting include: behavioral medicine, acute and chronic complications; clinical nutrition, education, and exercise; clinical diabetes/therapeutics; epidemiology/genetics; immunology/transplantation; insulin action/molecular metabolism; integrated physiology/obesity; and islet biology/insulin secretion. Case studies, symposia, oral presentations, poster discussions and other forms of communicating new information and research.

More than 200 sessions will be presented on recent research including type 1 diabetes immune intervention trials, the integrated results of the CANVAS program, and the results of a clinical trial that looked at metformin’s effect on vascular adverse lesions in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Special events include a free 5K@ADA Fun Run/Walk Sunday, June 11, at 6:30 a.m. and a walking challenge throughout the 5 days to see which participant takes the most steps. The goal is to hit 77,000 steps for the 77^th Anniversary of ADA. Wear red on Sunday to promote research and diabetes prevention.

For more information and a full itinerary go to https://professional.diabetes.org/meeting/scientific-sessions/77th-scientific-sessions and if you can’t attend, make sure to check out this website all weekend for regular updates.