Session 1

• Epidemiology of complications of diabetes – Peter H Bennett

Session 2

• Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Diabetes Interventions – William H. Herman

Session 3

• Trials in diabetes: issues past, present and future – Amanda Adler

Participant presentations

• The relationship between telomere length and diabetic kidney disease- The Hong Kong Diabetes Register – Feifei Cheng
• Discovery of risk factors for sudden cardiac arrest in (pre)diabetes – Laura Helena van Dongen
• Sex differences in the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with diabetes – Marit de Jong
• Patterns in general practitioners’ performance of type 2 diabetes procedures and relations with patients’ risk of cardiovascular disease – Kjersti Nøkleby
• Gestational diabetes and maternal-fetal-neonatal complications – Vanina Pagotto

Session 4

• Seminar overview – Nita Forouhi