East Meets West 2011 > Annual Meeting

Scientific Programme

1 October 2011 (Saturday)

08:45 – 09:30

Registration for Lay Programme and Insulin Workshop

09:30 – 11:30

Lay Programme for Patients (conducted in Cantonese) (Chairpersons: Dr. Jenny Leung and Ms. Maisy Mok)
09:30 – 10:10	控糖護心飲食攻略黃思敏註册營養師
10:10 – 10:50	血糖指數走勢追踪區家燕糖尿科專科護師
10:50 – 11:30	糖尿病家中阻力訓練運動介紹潘世顯註冊體適能教練

Workshop on Intensive Insulin Treatment (Chairpersons: Dr. K. P. Lau and Dr. Andrea Luk)
09:30 – 10:10	Basal-bolus insulin Ms. Kit-man Loo (Hong Kong)
10:10 – 10:50	Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion Dr. Jason Ng (Hong Kong)
10:50 – 11:30	Continuous glucose monitoring system Professor Ronald Ma (Hong Kong)

12:00 – 17:30

Registration for 13th EMW

12:45 – 13:45

Mini-buffet Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

13:45 – 14:45

BMS/AZ Lunch Symposium: Current Trends in the Management of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes
(Chairperson: Professor Juliana Chan)
Incretin-based therapies: a physiological-based strategy to improve metabolic control in diabetes
Professor Harold Lebovitz (USA)

14:45 – 15:25

Opening Ceremony

15:25 – 17:05

HKFRDD Symposium
(Chairpersons: Dr. Clive Cockram and Professor Edward Janus)
Vascular benefits of anti-diabetic drug in hypertension - a mechanistic perspective
Professor Yu Huang (Hong Kong)

Management strategy for the retardation of atherosclerosis in Asian diabetic patients
Professor Yoshimitsu Yamasaki (Japan)

Depression and cardiovascular outcome in type 2 diabetic patients
Dr. Rose Ting (Hong Kong)

17:05 – 17:45

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

17:45 – 18:35

HKFRDD Plenary Lecture
(Chairperson: Professor Ronald Ma)
Diabetes: an evolutionary and development mismatch
Professor Peter Gluckman (New Zealand)

2 October 2011 (Sunday)

08:00 – 17:00

Registration

08:30 – 10:30

Free Paper Oral Presentation
(Chairpersons: Dr. W. B. Chan and Professor H. Y. Lan)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break, Exhibition and coffee break

11:00 – 11:50

HKASO Plenary Lecture
(Chairperson: Dr. Vincent Yeung)
Sugar sweetened beverages, obesity and diabetes
Professor Robert Lustig (USA)

11:50 – 13:20

HKASO Symposium
(Chairpersons: Dr. T. H. Leung and Dr. Peter Tong)
Can microbial agents cause obesity?
Professor Mary Waye (Hong Kong)

Management of the overweight child and adolescent
Professor Albert Li (Hong Kong)

Sleep disorder and obesity
Professor Yun-kwok Wing (Hong Kong)

13:20 – 14:20

Mini-buffet Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

14:20 – 15:20

East Meets West Lunch Symposium: Detection and Management of Diabetic Kidney Disease
(Chairperson: Dr. C. B. Leung)

Importance of early detection of chronic kidney disease in diabetic patients
Dr. Risa Ozaki (Hong Kong)

Management of dyslipidemia in diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease
Professor Sydney Tang (Hong Kong)

Natural-Med Lunch Symposium: Oxidative Stress Underlying Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Stroke
(Chairperson: Professor Brian Tomlinson)

Stroke for screening in vulnerable patients
Professor Li-ping Liu (China)

Therapeutics strategy for reversal of coronary atherosclerotic plaque reversal
Professor Xiao-ping Meng (China)

15:20 – 16:10

HKAS Plenary Lecture
(Chairperson: Professor Brian Tomlinson)
HDL-C: from bench to bedside
Professor Kerry-Anne Rye (Australia)

16:10 – 16:40

Coffee Break, Exhibition and Poster Viewing

16:40 – 18:30

HKAS Symposium
(Chairperson: Professor Philip Ding and Dr. Rody Sy)
Novel cardiovascular risk factors
Professor Børge Nordestgaard (Denmark)

Prophylaxis and treatment of thromboenbolic disease - focus on peripheral arterial disease
Professor Philip Ding (Taiwan)

Vascular stiffness in managing cardiovascular disease
Dr. Gabriel Yip (Hong Kong)

18:30 – 18:35

Presentation of Young Investigator Awards

18:35 – 18:45

Closing Remarks