Endocrinology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition

 The Sixth Annual Diabetes Symposium of Wisconsin
The Italian Community Center, Milwaukee, WI
May 16th-17th, 2013

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Featured Speakers & Topics
Deborah Burnet, MD, MA
Community-Engaged Research to Decrease Childhood Obesity & Diabetes Risk on Chicago's South Side
Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine
Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Medicine
  University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Abhimanyu Garg, MD
Obesity & Lipodystrophy
Professor, Distinguished Chair in Human Nutrition Research
  UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Srividya Kidambi, MD, MS
Treatment Update for Diabetes Mellitus
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition
  Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Abbas Kitabchi, MD, PhD
Hyperglycemic Crises (DKA & HHS): Pathogenesis & Therapy
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Science; Director of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Director, Training Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

E. Douglas Lewandowski, PhD
Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes: Dysregulated Cardiac Lipid Dynamics
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research and Program in Integrative Cardiac Metabolism
Professor, Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Medicine, Bioengineering
  University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Richard M. Marks, MD, FACS
Evaluation and Treatment of Diabetic Neuroarthropathy
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Director, Division Foot & Ankle Surgery
 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FFAN
The COPE/Healthy Lifestyles TEEN Program for Overweight/Obese Adolescents
Associate Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer
Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, Professor of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, College of Medicine
  Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Raghu G. Mirmira, MD, PhD
The Dysfunctional Beta Cell in Type 2 Diabetes
Lilly Professor of Pediatric Diabetes
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Physiology, and Biochemistry
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
  Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Mark E. Molitch, MD
Management of Advancing Diabetic Nephropathy
Martha Leland Sherwin Professor of Endocrinology
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, & Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine
  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Michael C. Riddell, PhD
Exercise & Diabetes
Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health
  York University, Toronto, Canada

Shailendra Patel, MD, PhD
Update on Diabetes Cardiovascular Trials
Professor, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition
  Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Guillermo Umpierrez, MD
Issues and Management of Diabetes in the Minority Population
Professor of Medicine, Director, Grady Hospital Clinical Research Unit, A-CTSI Emory Univ. School of Med., Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Grady Health System
  Grady Memorial Hospital & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Nelson B. Watts, MD, FACP, MACE
Diabetes & Bone
Director, Mercy Health Osteoporosis and Bone Health Services
  Cincinnati, OH

William E. Winter, MD
Biomarkers of Autoimmune Diabetes
Professor, Departments of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Principle Investigator, Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet ICA Core Laboratory Director, UF Pathology Laboratories, Endocrine Autoantibody Laboratory Pathology Course Director
  University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL

Clinical Case Discussions with audience participation presented by:
Shailendra Patel, MD, PhD
Olena Hungerford, MD
Laura Levin, MD
Kathleen Marquart, MD
Sujani Poonuru, MD
Tejal Shah, MD
Katarzyna Zarnecki, MD

Program Information
This is a two day program with the specific purpose of increasing education and knowledge of all aspects of endocrine clinical practice and research. This symposium consists of medical lectures given by healthcare professionals on topics related to Diabetes Updates. This course is designed for primary care physicians, adult & pediatric endocrinologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, dieticians, physician assistants, fellows, residents, and medical students.

Program Objectives
This conference is designed to:

• Improve diabetes care by identifying and expounding evidence-based advances in management.
• Outline the areas that are at the outer limits of current knowledge and define our limitations.
• Improve Management and knowledge of drugs and therapy, using well-controlled trial data.
• Gain further knowledge about the scientific knowledge of the pathophysiological processes involved in diabetes

Planning Committee
Chair: Shailendra Patel, MD, PhD, Professor, Endocrinology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Staff Attending, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Committee Members:
Ramin Alemzadeh, MD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes
Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nancy Havas, MD, Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
Beth Wilke, Division of Endocrinology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Susan Hjesland, Associate Director, American Diabetes Association

Location Information
Italian Community Center, 631 East Chicago Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Italian Community Center is located near Lake Michigan in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. Located only three blocks from downtown Milwaukee, the Italian Community Center is easily accessible from I-794, one block west of Henry W. Maier Festival Park. For more information, please call (414) 223-2800 or visit their website at: http://www.italianconference.com/