Please find below details of timings, talks and speakers for the spring meeting, Miskin Manor.
MEETING PROGRAMME
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Registration and lunch |
| 13:25 – 13:30 | The Womens Health Symposium Rachel Churm, Swansea University |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | GUEST SPEAKER: Managing thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy Prof Kristien Boelaert MD, PhD, FRCP – University of Birmingham |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Automated insulin delivery use around exercise in type 1 diabetes: Bridging the artificial to natural pancreatic gap’ Olivia McCarthy, Researcher in Clinical Exercise, Physiology and Type 1 Diabetes Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Borgmester Ib Juuls Vej 83,2730 Herlev, Denmark Richard Bracken – Swansea University |
| 14:15 – 14.30 | An Audit of the care of women with Gestational Diabetes at the University Hospital of Wales Jeffymol Joseph. Dr Lowri Allen, Alison Ellis, Aled Roberts, Hemanth Bolusani, Lindsay George, Lisa Bull, Henry Cole, Dr Maitrayee Choudhury – University Hospital of Wales |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Routine screening for steatotic liver disease in people with diabetes: a patient survey David M Williams, Laura Wilkinson, Jagadish Nagaraj, Jeffrey W Stephens, Thinzar Min Swansea Bay University Health Board |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Targeted reduction of a proinflammatory subset of Th17 T-cells by Ustekinumab is associated with C-peptide preservation in Type 1 diabetes – Phase II multicentre, double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial in children and adolescents Peter Taylor, Danijela Tatovic, Ashish Marwaha, Stephanie J. Hanna, Kym Carter, W.Y. Cheung,Steve Luzio, Gareth Dunseath, Hayley A. Hutchings, Gail Holland, Steve Hiles, Greg Fegan,Evangelia Williams, Jennie H. M. Yang, Clara Domingo-Vila, Emily Pollock, Muntaha Wadud, Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge, Susie Marques-Jones, Jane Bowen-Morris, Rachel Stenson, Megan KLevings, John W Gregory, Timothy I.M. Tree, Colin Dayan, USTEKID STUDY GROUP – University Hospital of Wales / Cardiff University |
| 15:00 – 15.15 | Recent changes in the management of Graves’ disease by endocrinologists in Wales and the UK: Report of a 2023 British Thyroid Association survey Medha Agarwal, Michael Atkinson, Onyebuchi Okosieme – Aneurin Bevan University Health Board |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Maternal type 1 diabetes confers long-term relative protection against type 1 diabetes in the offspring: Results from five cohort studies Lowri Allen, Taylor PN, Carlsson A, Fraser DP, Hagopian WA, Hedlund E, Hill AV, Jones AG, Ludvigsson J, Mortimer GL, Onengut-Gumuscu, Redondo MJ, Rich SS, Williams CL, Gillespie KM, Dayan CM, Oram RA – University Hospital of Wales / Cardiff University |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | C O F F E E B R E A K |
| 16:00 – 16.15 | Continuous Subcutaneous Hydrocortisone infusion (CSHI) : Potentially Life changing treatment for Addison’s Disease Aneela Arooj, Joseph Miles, Mousumi Biswas – Royal Gwent Hospital, Aneurin Bevan University |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Shedding light on shadows: A ‘non- classical’ presentation of recurrent miscarriages – A Case Report Sarath Kumar, Ayesha Zulifiqar, Muhammad T. Saeed, Shah R. Malik, Syeda S. Fatima, Blaise Emery, Sam Rice – Prince Philip Hospital, HDUHB & Singleton Hospital, SBUHB |
| 16.30 – 16.45 | There is diabetes and then there is … Diabetes! Syeda Safa Fatima, Shah Rukh Malik, Muhammad Talha Saeed, Leanne Jenkins, Prof. S.Bain, Akhila Mallipedhi – Singleton Hospital, Swansea and Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Malignant prolactinoma: a rare but important entity Lowri Allen, Andrew Lansdown, Aled Rees – University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff |
| 17:00 – 17.15 | It’s fatty liver disease. We see it all the time Leanne Jenkins, Laura Jones, Syeda Safa Fatima, M. Saeed & Sam Rice – Prince Philip Hospital / Ty’r Felin GP Surgery, Swansea |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Propylthiouracil-induced ANCA associated vasculitis: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge May Myat Mon Win Yin, Thinzar Min, – Neath Port Talbot Hospital, Swansea Bay UHB |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Thyroxine intolerance: A rare but significant clinical entity Asif Nawaz, David Williams, Peter Taylor, Thinzar Min, Win Yin – Morriston Hospital, Swansea Bay University Health Board |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Liothyronine and a sudden unexplained death: cause or coincidence? Suhani Bahl, Pete Taylor,Onyebuchi Okosieme, Mike Stedman, Adrian Heald, LD Premawardhana, Colin Daya – University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff |
| 18.00 | M E E T I N G C L O S E |
The organisers would like to thank the Miskin Manor Hotel and also appreciation to the following companies for their sponsorship of the meeting
No pharmaceutical companies have had any input into the agenda. Pharmaceutical companies have sponsored the meeting through purchase of an exhibition stand. Acknowledgement of sponsorship shown on the printed Programme, Abstract Booklet and on the WEDS Website
