Upcoming Event – The Welsh Endocrine and Diabetes Society – Autumn Meeting; 23rd October 2025

Save the date: Our WEDS Autumn meeting details including speakers and talks will be released shortly.

The event will be held at De Courceys Manor in Cardiff on the 23rd October 2025.

Download Booklet (Word Doc)

MEETING PROGRAMME

11:00 – 12:00 Registration and meet the reps 
12:00 – 12:45 LUNCH  
12:45 – 13:30 GUEST SPEAKER: 

Parth Narendran – Birmingham University
Screening for, monitoring and treating early type 1 diabetes
13:30 – 13:42

RESEARCH:
Adel Habib, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Managing primary hyperparathyroidism associated with severe hypercalcaemia in a pregnant patient
13:42 – 13:54

Syeda Safa Fatima – Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Raised Sex Hormone binding globulin levels in man: A retrospective observational study
13:54 – 14:06

Shahriah Khan Sharjada. Royal Glamorgan Hospital and University Hospital of Wales
Impact of Somatostatin Analogues on glycaemic control in patients with neuroendocrine tumours: A retrospective observational study
14:06 – 14:18

Arshiya Tabasum, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Improved patient outcomes facilitated by C-Peptide testing, enabling reclassification and therapeutic changes for patients with diabetes
14:18 – 14:30

Ahmed Drah, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff
Dermatological impact of adhesives for insulin infusion sets and wearable glucose monitors in patients with type I diabetes  
14:30 – 14:50

GUEST SPEAKER:
David Fryer – Shetland NHS Trust
The challenges of general medicine and endocrinology in Shetland
14:50 – 15:10 COFFEE BREAK
15:10 – 15:22

Sara Crowley –  Diabetes Transitional Care National Coordinator – NHS Performance & Improvement
A national Survey of Welsh Diabetes Services mapped care across childhood to young adulthood highlighting where provision fragments during transition and in identifying opportunities for improving
15:22 – 15:34

CASES:
Fred Keen – Nevill Hall Hospital, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
TTR related dystransthyretinaemic hyperthyroxinaemia – A case of thyrotoxic mimic   
15:34 – 15:46

Giselle Sharaf, University Hospital of Wales
Hypercalcaemia induced Arginine Vasopressin Resistance AVP Resistance (AVP-R) – Diagnostic and Management difficulties 
15:46 – 15:58

Thein Myint Tun, Hasini Chandresekera – Morriston Hospital, Swansea Bay Health Board
Hidden Cause of Hypoglycaemia
15:58 – 16:10

Srikanda Krishnamoorthy Vasan Krishnamoorthy, Prince Charles Hospital
Case report: A case of central diabetes insipidus (DI) secondary to neurosarcoidosis involving pituitary infundibulum
16:10 – 16:22

Will John, Ahmed Masoud; University Hospital of Wales
A rare mimic of apoplexy      
16:25 – 16:50

“How do I” workshop
How do I manage my pre-diabetes clinic in a world of screening and immunotherapy
Colin Dayan – Cardiff
16:50 – 17:15

How do I manage thyroid eye disease from referral to the future.
Pete Taylor – Cardiff
17:30 MEETING CLOSE

The organisers would like to thank the Staff at De Courceys and also appreciation to
the following companies for their sponsorship of the meeting.

The above pharmaceutical companies have NOT had any input into the agenda. Pharmaceutical companies have sponsored the meeting through purchase of an exhibition stand.  Acknowledgement of sponsorship is shown on the printed Programme, Abstract Booklet and on the WEDS Website

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