Diabetes Clinical Trials Update 2016

Learning Objectives

• Gauge the burden of macrovascular and microvascular disease in diabetes.
• Understand the results and implications of recent cardiovascular outcome trials of antihyperglycemic agents.

Agenda

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Chairs

Lawrence A Leiter
MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACE, FAHA
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism,
St. Michael’s Hospital
Director, Lipid Clinic, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences,
University of Toronto

Stewart B Harris
CM, MD, MPH, FCFP, FACPM
Professor,
CDA Chair in Diabetes Management
Ian McWhinney Chair of Family Medicine Studies
Centre for Studies in Family Medicine
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry,
Western University

Faculty

Alice Y Y Cheng
MD, FRCPC
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Credit Valley Hospital and St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Ronald M Goldenberg
MD, FRCPC, FACE
Consultant Endocrinologist, North York Hospital and LMC Diabetes & Endocrinology

Subodh Verma
MD, PhD, FRCSC, FAHA
Division of Cardiac Surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto

Bernard Zinman
MDCM, FRCPC, FACP
Director, Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes, Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes
Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Peter P Liu
MSc, MD, FRCPC, FACC
Chief Scientific Officer / Vice President of Research, Director, Cardiac Function Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

David H Fitchett
MD, FRCC, FACC, FESC
Division of Cardiology, St. Michael’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Robert A Hegele
MD, FRCPC, FACP, FAHA, FCAHS
Jacob J. Wolfe Distinguished Medical Research Chair in Human Gene Function
Edith Schulich Vinet Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics
Martha Blackburn Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario