Attend an Event

-an Educational Symposium

Thursday June 2, 2011, Crowne Plaza Alice Springs

This symposium is designed to inform medical care and treatment options of Indigenous people with diabetes and cardiovascular disease living in Central Australia. It aims to highlight best practice service delivery, inform preventative strategies and detail treatment protocols. It will discuss various models of care and explore risk factors such as social, cultural and psychological issues impacting the clinical management of people with diabetes and related chronic illness.

The symposium aims to attract remote health care workers and those providing frontline treatment and care to patients with diabetes. It is designed to promote engagement between local health care providers and educators, to expand awareness and knowledge of evidence-based care in an effort to reduce the ill health and mortality caused by diabetes and related complications.

The symposium will have a particular focus on the provision of practical and sustainable care options and is particularly relevant to local health care providers who work in remote settings. It will also examine preventative and educational programs in remote communities and barriers to improving health outcomes in these settings.

Key topics include:

• Diagnosis and screening for diabetes
• Treatment of diabetes - in particular Type 2 diabetes
• Gestational diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes in Indigenous youth
• Screening for complications and their management.

Registration is free but essential.

Visit www.bakeridi.edu.au for further information and registration details or contact the symposium coordinator on 1300 728 900.

This symposium is funded by the
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing