Young Leaders in Diabetes Training Programme 2013 Melbourne

We are in the final stages of preparing for the 2nd bi annual Young Leaders in Diabetes Training Programme which will take place in Melbourne Australia from the 28th November till the 6th of December 2013.

Including in this time the Young Leaders will have the oppertunity to attend the World Diabetes Congress where some of the Young Leaders have been invtied to present a talk, poster and participate in symposiyms.

We have 139 Young leaders who will be in attendance and they shall be supported by an amazing faculty which include:

Debbie Jones (Bermuda Diabetes Association, Bermuda)

Paul Madden (Project HOPE, USA)

Michael Jones (Bermuda)

Mark Barone (Associação de Diabetes Juvenil, Brazil)

Roque Cardona (Sant Joan de Deu Hospital, Spain)

Erum Ghafoor (Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology, Pakistan)

Jen Hanson (Connected in Motion, Canada)

Fran Kaufman (Children’s Hospital LA, USA)

Nancy Larco (Fondation Haïtienne du Diabète et des Maladies Cardiovasculaires, Haïti)

Claire Pesterfield (Addenbrooke’s Hopsital, United Kingdom)

Joseph Solowiejczyk (Diabetes Consulting Services, USA)

Mahen Wijesuriya (Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka)

Shelly Yeager (Diabetes Education & Camping Association, USA)

Neal Kaufman (UCLA School of Public Health)

Dhanya Laksha (Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka)

Amany Henein (Emirates Diabetes Society - SweetKidz Supporting Group)

Sameer Pathan (Public Health Foundation of India)

The training programme scheduled is now online and I encourage you to take a moment and have a read through to see what stature the YLD Training Programme is.

For the first time the Young Leaders in Diabetes will be hosting "Lunch & Learns" for the IDF Member Associations and will include topics such as, Diabetes Camps, Diabetes and Disasters and the discussion around the DAWN 2 study.

I will be including at a later stage my suggestions on traveling to Melbourne as well as my main objectives going into Melbourne.