Diabetes to Be Topic of Day-Long UB Seminar On Oct. 4

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A day-long seminar, “Update in the Management of Diabetes, Insulin Resistance and Obesity,” will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 8 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the Radisson Hotel and Suites, 4243 Genesee St., Buffalo.

The seminar is sponsored by the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York at Millard Fillmore Hospital, Gates Circle. It will provide health professionals with information about the most recent advances in the treatment of diabetes and its complications.

Nationally known experts will address the following clinical and scientific topics: insulin structure, biological activity and action; molecular mechanism of insulin resistance; obesity management and insulin resistance in type II diabetes; mechanisms of diabetic complications; treatment of type I and type II diabetes; mechanisms and treatment of diabetic nephropathy; management of diabetes in older adults, and diabetic atherosclerosis.

Members of the seminar faculty are Vivian Fonseca, M.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Eli Friedman, M.D., and Harold Lebovitz, M.D., SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn; Timothy Lyons, M.D., Medical University of South Carolina, and Arshag Mooradian, M.D., St. Louis University.

Also, David Smith, Ph.D., Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute and Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Morris White, Ph.D., Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, and Bernard Zinman, M.D., Banting & Best Diabetes Center, University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Paresh Dandona, M.B., B.S., UB professor of medicine, head of UB medical school’s Division of Endocrinology and director of the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, is director of the seminar and will be a presenter.

For registration information, call 716-887-4523.