Research, Abstracts, Posters, Presentations

Diabetes UK

British Endocrine Society

Who we are.

Gus Brooks - ST6 Royal Devon & Exeter
An avid United fan with (tenuous) links to Manchester. Currently on a big money loan to Newcastle for research.

Buki - ST7 Derriford Hospital taking part in the Early Bird research team.

Ali Chakera - aka Shakira, on account of his twinkle toes. SpR Royal Devon & Exeter. Currenly doing research with Prof Hattersley.

Chenchi Reddy - ST6 Royal Cornwall Hospital
Has moved to the region from Northern Ireland, where he was doing research.

Ioannis Dimitropoulos - ST5 Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.The keen, mean, Greek machine. First to work and last to leave - stop putting us all to shame!

Tom Fox - ST7 Derriford Hospital. Our Type A/ Red colleague.

Angus Jones - ST7 Royal Devon & Exeter
Currently undertaking research into C-peptide in Exeter.

Carly Lawrence - ST4 Torbay Hospital Back from a year working in Australia.

Aftab Aziz - ST3 at Torbay

Obesity - a growing problem!

This was a really interesting session, leading to healthy debate on the solution to the obesity crisis. As ever, debate led to polarised views about the role of the endocrinologist, the role of government, the role of society and the role of surgery in the management of obesity.

Here is Tom's balanced look at things:

Obesity

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Addison's disease

Ali, having done some work with Bijay on Addison's disease presented this at a Thursday lunchtime to the DEVHC staff.

The first section is a general overview on Addison's disease, the second looking at the evidence for replacement steroid doses for patients with Addison's disease undergoing surgery and the last, looking at the short-synacthen tests performed in the hospital over the past three years.

Addison’s Disease

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Torbay Mid-Foot Amputation Audit

The Torbay Foot team, have audited their mid-foot amputations in the two years to 2007. These are their results.

Mid Foot Amputations Torbay 2009

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Estimated Average Glucose - eAG

It has been deemed by the powers that be that estimated average glucose isn't going to be used in the UK, yet.

However, in mainland europe and in the States - they are going for it and for every HbA1c request, you get back three numbers: a percent, a mmol/mol value and an estimated average glucose.

This American presentation explains what it is and why it might be useful. I wouldn't be surprised if we start using it here.

eAG - Estimated Average Glucose

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