Scientific Programme

 

 Thursday, 19th June 2008

 

 09:00 – 09:45      Opening ceremony

                             H. Schatz (Bochum) and T. Temelkova-Kurktschiev (Sofia)

 

 

09:45 – 10:15      Guest Lecture: Oxidative stress in diabetes

                             A. Ceriello (Warwick, U.K. and Oklahoma City, U.S.A.) 

 

 

10:15 – 10:45      Coffee break

 

10:45 – 12:30      1st Session: Epidemiology, Genetics, Pathogenesis

                                                     

                             Obesity and type 2 diabetes

                             D. Micic (Belgrade)

                               

     Genetics of obesity and type-2-diabetes (FTO-, TCF7L2- and other genes)

                             B. Todorova, J. Salonnen (Sofia; Kuopio)

 

                  Nutrition and diabetes development              

                              U. Julius (Dresden)

 

                   Coagulation disturbances in diabetes

                      D. Tschöpe (Bad Oeynhausen)

 

12:30 – 13:30         Poster session

                                     

13:30 – 14:30        Lunch break

  

                               

14:30 – 16:15         2nd Session: Prevention, Cardiodiabetes

                                    

                      Physical activity in the prevention of cardiodiabetes

                      T. Temelkova-Kurktschiev (Sofia)

                

                      Diabetes as a cardiovascular disease    

                      M. Fuchtenbusch (Munich)

 

        State of the art lecture: Prevention of cardiovascular disease in type 2   

                               diabetes: How relevant is glucose lowering?

                      G. Schernthaner (Vienna)

 

 

16:15 – 16:45           Coffee break

 

16:45 – 18:20           3rd Session: Diabetic Complications and Associated Diseases

                                                                       

                                 Hypertension and type 2 diabetes – which treatment?

                                  J. Sieradzki (Krakow)

 

                          Challenges in the treatment of the elderly diabetic patients

                                   D. Koev (Varna)

 

                          Depression in the metabolic syndrome/ type 2 diabetes: mechanisms

                          and treatment

                                   S. Bornstein (Dresden)

 

                                   Diabetic foot

                                   V. Urbancic-Rovan (Ljubljana)

 

18:45 – 19:45             General assembly of FID-members

 

20:30                           “Get Together” Party

 

 

 Friday, 20. June 2008

 

09:00-10:30            4th Session: Diabetic Polyneuropathy – sponsored by Wörwag Pharma

                               

                                Diabetic polyneuropathy

                                P. Kempler (Budapest)

 

                       The place of alpha-lipoic acid in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy.

                                 I. A. Veresiu (Cluj-Napoca/Klausenburg)

                               

                                Treatment of diabetic neuropathy viewed through the prism of Bulgarian
experience.

                                 T. Tankova (Sofia)

 

                                 Benfotiamine in the treatment of diabetic complications and beyond.

                                 A. Stirban (Bad Oeynhausen)

 

10:30 - 11:00           Coffee break

 

11:00 – 13:30          5th Session: Therapy of Type 2 Diabetes

                                

                        Classical antidiabetic drugs – sulfonylureas and metformin in the

                         treatment of type 2 diabetes

 V. Pirags (Riga)

 

                        Treatment of postprandial hyperglycaemia: acarbose, glinides

                                 O. Schnell (Munich)

 

                     Glitazones in the treatment of type 2 diabetes according to recent studies and metaanalyses        

                                 E. Standl (Munich)

 

                        New oral antidiabetic drugs: GLP-1 analogues and DPP-IV inhibitors

                                 H. Schatz (Bochum)

 

                                Therapy of diabetic dyslipidemia  

                                C. Saely, H. Drexel (Feldkirch)

 

                                Blocking fatty acids' mystery tour: a therapy for metabolic syndrome?                                       

                                M. Roden (Vienna)

                              

13:30-14:30             Lunch break

 

14:30-15:30             Poster session

 

14:30-15:15             Meet the Professor Session

                                 Oral treatment of type 2 diabetes

                                 M. Hanefeld (Dresden)

 

15:30-17:00             6th Session: Insulin Therapy, Type 1 Diabetes

                         

                                  Insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes  

                                  R. Weitgasser (Salzburg)

 

                         Insulin analogues and pump therapy in children and adolescents 

                                  O. Kordonouri (Hannover)

                                

                         New data on pancreas and islet cell transplantation in diabetes  

                                   R. Lehmann (Zurich)

 

17:00 – 17:30            Coffee break

 

17:30 – 18:45            7th Session: Special Forms of Diabetes

                                       Gestational diabetes: Recommendations for screening and treatment 

    P. Bottermann (Munich) 

                               What should general practitioners know about LADA?  

                                E. Hatziagelaki (Athens)

 

                                   Guidelines for diagnostics and treatment of MODY

                                    J. Stanik (Bratislava)

 

18:45                          Closing ceremony  

                                    Invitation to the 4^th Central European Diabetes Congress

                                    in Salzburg 2009

                                    R. Weitgasser (Salzburg)

                                  

20:00                           Gala dinner