7a. Updates to the 2024-2027 management of type 2 diabetes.
Track 1
| Friday, November 22, 2024 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
| Riverside Theatre |
Details
60min clinical presentation
This session will inform primary care practices and GPs about the updated evidence-based guidelines for managing type 2 diabetes. Participants will learn to apply these guidelines for individualized assessments and diagnoses, implement systems for primary and secondary prevention, utilize new therapeutic approaches for managing complications, develop risk management tools for emergencies, and create quality improvement activities to enhance patient outcomes and reduce risks for individuals living with diabetes.
This session will inform primary care practices and GPs about the updated evidence-based guidelines for managing type 2 diabetes. Participants will learn to apply these guidelines for individualized assessments and diagnoses, implement systems for primary and secondary prevention, utilize new therapeutic approaches for managing complications, develop risk management tools for emergencies, and create quality improvement activities to enhance patient outcomes and reduce risks for individuals living with diabetes.
Speaker
Dr Gary Deed
Chair, RACGP Diabetes Specific Interests Committee
RACGP
Updates to the 2024-2027 Management of type 2 diabetes: A handbook for general practice
Biography
Dr Gary Deed is a general practitioner with a passionate interest in promoting quality patient care of diabetes and obesity in general practice through education, development of resources including guidelines, policy development, research and strategic collaboration. He is the Chair of the Diabetes Specific interest network for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). He is the editor for the General Practice management of type 2 diabetes guideline for the RACGP and remains a member of the ADS Clinical Guidelines/Standards Advisory Committee . He is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of Monash University and helps co-ordinates the NHMRC funded ‘STAREE’ Statins in Reducing Events in the Elderly trial - http://www.staree.org.au/ . He has published peer reviewed journal articles in diabetes and is an editor for Diabetes Therapy and adviser/editor for Endocrinology Today
Dr Tess van Duuren
Censor-in-Chief
RACGP
Session chair
Biography
