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In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the ABCD

About This Webinar

Join us to raise a glass in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists.

In this short virtual meet up, we will raise a glass to the ABCD founders and all past chairs, executive members and committee members who have led the association throughout the last 25 years, as well as our loyal membership.

Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Featured Presenters
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Royal Free Hospital, London, Chair ABCD
Dipesh Patel is consultant physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Royal Free NHS Foundation trust in London. He enjoys delivering high quality clinical care in Endocrinology and Diabetes. He is committed to patient safety and supports teams in secondary and community care. Professionally, he is a trustee and current chair of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD). He was awarded a PhD from Imperial College for research in the area of cellular cholesterol transport in people with dysglycaemia and works as an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL. He is principal investigator in clinical trials in cardiovascular and renal domains. He enjoys being the local teaching lead for undergraduate Endocrinology at the Royal Free Campus.
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Honorary Meeting Secretary, ABCD
Umesh Dashora is a consultant in Hastings and has trained in diabetes and endocrinology at Newcastle and Southampton among other centres.

He has been a keen member of the ABCD executive team since 2013 and has actively promoted and contributed to the ABCD journal as the news editor. He has represented ABCD in JBDS-IP and contributed to a number of recent national guidelines the most recent being diabetes management during delivery in which he is the first author. This is now published. Umesh and Dinesh have developed an online module for the Royal College of Midwives which has had very good uptake.

He is the first author of one of the first ABCD position statements on SGLT-2 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes and the updated position statement on SGLT-2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes.

Umesh also published on the use of U500 in UK on behalf of ABCD .

He is the new meeting secretary of ABCD. He also holds the regional adviser position for the Royal colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.
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Consultant Physician, City Hospital Birmingham & Clinical Lead, Nationwide Audits of New Diabetes Therapies, ABCD
Bob Ryder trained in South Wales and Sheffield. He has worked as a Consultant Physician/Diabetologist/Endocrinologist, City Hospital, Birmingham since 1991. Over the years special interests have included diabetic retinopathy screening; diabetic hypoglycaemia unawareness; diabetic autonomic neuropathy; diabetic impotence; clinical use of IT; treating to target; relative risks and benefits of pioglitazone He leads the ABCD nationwide audits of new therapies and devices – current/imminent audits include SGLT2i, liraglutide, exenatide qw, IDegLira, degludec, FreeStyle Libre, semaglutide, testosterone, closed-loop systems. He is chief investigator of two ABCD Endobarrier studies (https://youtu.be/xRcnMBOdb58, https://youtu.be/y1zm0Scq6YM). Beyond diabetes he is best known as principle author of best-selling "An Aid to the MRCP Short Cases", the 4th-edition of which is the three volume “An Aid to the MRCP PACES”.
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ABCD Ex-Officio Chair
Dr Dinesh Nagi is currently working as an Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and endocrinology at Pinderfields Hospital Wakefield. Having served as Chairman of the ABCD between 2017-2020, he has recently taken up the role of Vice-Chairman of the DCT (Diabetes Care Trust) UK, a charitable trust which works closely with the ABCD. His main interest in diabetes was to promote Integrated Diabetes Care among Primary and Specialist Diabetes Services.
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ABCD Founder and member of the "Gang of Three"
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Clinical Lead for Diabetes within the Yorkshire & Humber Cardiovascular Strategic Clinical Network
Chris is a graduate of Newcastle upon Tyne medical school. He currently works as a consultant diabetologist based within the Hull University NHS Teachings Hospitals Trust where he provides community diabetes services . He is Clinical Lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Diabetes Clinical Network where he is focused on acheiving more effective dietetic and lifestyle programs across the region for people with Type 2 diabetes , and the role out of technology for peope with Type 1. He served as Chair of the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists from May 2011 to May 2014 during which time he helped secure the acquisition of the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease (now the British Journal of Diabetes) as the official journal of the Association and launched with Patrick Sharp, then Secretary of ABCD the ‘Lost Tribe' campaign highlighting the need to focus on the needs of people with Type 1 diabetes. One of his roles with ABCD was to co-chair with Prof Alan Sinclair, the Diabetes in Care Homes National Audit. He was a member of the writing group for the NHS 2013 document entitled ‘Best practice for commissioning diabetes services-an integrated care
Framework’, and of the team which won the Royal College of Physicians Digital Innovation award in supporting the role out of FreeStyle Libre flash blood glucose monitoring in the NHS.
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Honorary General Secretary, ABCD
Susannah is a consultant at Pennine Acute NHS Hospitals Trust and based at Fairfield hospital in Bury.

Diversity seems to be the best aspect of Susannah's job as she provides diabetes care within both the hospital and community setting, endocrine services and still does GIM including “on call”.

The team started developing integrated diabetes services back in 2005 and this has evolved into services spanning 4 hospitals and 4 CCGs currently and is still in evolution with the challenge posed by “Devo Manc”.

Susannah represents ACBD on the RCP Diabetes & Endocrine Specialist Advisory committee and has an interest in the development and delivery of high-quality transition services.
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Diabetes Care Trust Chairman
I have had Type 1 Diabetes since 1974 and am in a good position to judge the significance of new developments in diabetes care. Although I spent my career as a diabetologist working in a district hospital I believe that I can best serve my fellow trustees by bringing the perspective of a person with diabetes, rather than as a specialist voice. However, it does help, as chairman, to have a background that enables me to follow the many complicated matters that the Board discusses. I have now retired from practicing medicine and am fortunate to be able to enjoy the family, garden and in the summer, messing about on boats. My ambition? To help people with diabetes by means of the many good things that our trust is able to do – and to get my Nabarro medal in 2024!
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York
Vijay has been a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology since 2005 and has received an MD (Hons) for his work on insulin resistance variability. He was Lead Clinician for the service from 2009 to 2017. In 2017 he was appointed Undergraduate Clinical Dean for his Trust.
In the last few years he has been involved in the transformation of Diabetes services in the York area with the creation of a Community Diabetes Service and a Diabetes Specialist Outreach service.
Vijay is the regional RCP Diabetes advisor and since 2017 an elected committee member for the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists.
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