Professional Resources In Medical Education and Research is back with ADA PRIMER – 2019. This ‘Clinical Update in Diabetes’ is being held at Hotel Conrad Bengaluru from August 16-18, 2019.

ADA PRIMER update is rated as one of the most authoritative & Clinically relevant conference, each year by attendees. Lead by the President of ADA, Dr. Louis Philipson, the event is designed to help clinicians translate Advances, Evidence & Guidelines into patient care. Conference is designed with multiple learning formats & includes Lectures, Plenaries, Clinical Case seminars, Debates, Interactive Panel discussions & more to allow Clinician to advance his/her learning. Conference caters to Clinicians, Dietitians-Educators & Researchers across the spectrum.

Dr. Allison Goldfine, Dr. Rohit Kulkarni, Dr. Sunder Mudaliar and Dr. Jiten Vora are among the elite invited foreign faculty. Indian faculty will include senior opinion leaders from across the country & will feature most of the luminaries.

Each year, PRIMER conference attracts over 1500 quality delegates, most of whom convert the knowledge obtained into better practice format. This is also an ideal platform to meet & network with established and upcoming doctors guided by the tremendous Science & Hospitality that PRIMER is known for and has always offered.

We welcome you to join the thousand plus deeply committed physicians who feel that this is the one program that helps them make a difference to the care of their patients.

The conference is designed to bring recent advances, new concepts, clinical dilemmas and practice perspectives combining global and local expertise, wisdom and flavor. The faculty and scientific content have been chosen to ensure relevance to a spectrum of learners importantly clinical practitioners. The expertise and experience of the faculty has been harnessed in a uniquely designed program to maximize a seamless translation of advances in Diabetology and Endocrinology to your prescription and care strategy. Unique sessions, many of them interactive raise your learning to new levels. These include: Plenary: Science from the master’s perspective Clinical Case Seminars: Every day medicine gets an expert treatment Symposia: Getting the basics right in care Translating advances to future therapies: Which advance will become a standard of care? Debates: To know both sides of a coin Is there enough evidence or reason for? Questioning our beliefs An abstract or publication that changed my practice: Because practice changes one advance at a time

PRIMER is a medical education firm managed by Dr. K M Prasanna Kumar, Dr. S R Aravind & Dr. Krishna G Seshadri. Operational since 2009, PRIMER has been a desired provider of continuing medical education for health care professionals. Besides immensely successful high impact CMEs PRIMER helps create medical education content, commissions & publishes books, periodicals and also partners with technology development. We also create patient centered programs and foster research.

Program Highlights

• • Plenary: Imagining the future of diabetes care
  • Plenary: Recent advances in the detection & management of Diabetic Retinopathy and the role of technology
  • Workshop: Improving clinical care & outcome via adoption of technology
  • Workshop: Inpatient management of T2DM
  • Workshop: Diet & diabetes: What works & what doesn’t
  • Debate: Should we screen for heart failure in all diabetics?
  • Special Focus : Diabetes & the failing Kidney
    • Management of HTN in DM & DKD
    • Prevention of progression of DKD in patients with declining eGFR.
    • Management of T2DM in patients undergoing dialysis.

     

  • New islet cell technologies – A preview of what is coming.

     

  • Smart insulins & the future of insulin

     

  • The pump revolution – ABC’s for every clinicians

     

  • Infection in Diabetes – Usual, Unusual

     

  • Will AI/ML replace diabetologists

     

  • Diabetes outcome in women – What is different? – Should our approach be different?

     

  • Diabetes dysglycemia and subfertility in men and women

     

  • A prescription for exercise – What works for women with T2DM – A review.

     

  • Muscle loss in the aging diabetic – consequences & solutions.

     

  • Management of T2DM with altered Sleep hygiene & circadian misalignment.

     

  • Environmental causes of Diabetes

     

  • Unusual forms of diabetes – Recognition testing & management

     

  • Metformin the more we learn – New insights into an old drug and its position in clinical care

     

  • Sulfonyl Urea in patients with established CVD

     

  • Does exercise improve diabetes outcome? – Evidence based overview

     

  • Dementia and cognitive dysfunction in diabetes – Prevention and care

     

  • Treating anti TPO and TSH – Myths and facts

     

  • Testing in Endocrinology – Common traps.

     

  • The patient with unusual fatigue – An Endocrine approach.

     

  • The Endocrinology of aging – Is there a magic potion ahead.

     

  • The colors of fat & its clinical implications.

    More debates, case discussions including what did we learn in 2019 and other usual features.