The DSMA was formed in Leicester in September 2015 and has delivered Annual Conferences in Copenhagen (2016), Galway (2017), Glasgow (2018) Stockholm (2020), Belfast (2022) and this years conference Leicester (2024). Up to 100 people have attended each Conference
The focus of the Annual Conference has been to update people on different and new ways of promoting self-management based on the research evidence. A mix of plenaries and workshops have been delivered with involvement of people living with diabetes in shaping and delivering the programme.
Topics have included: involving people living with diabetes in service design and research, using digital tools and social media to promote self-management, accreditation of diabetes self-management education programmes and tools and techniques to support and maintain behaviour change and peer-support.
A conference about self-management and structured education needs to role-model different styles of delivery so that attendees have the opportunity to experience these approaches.
Just as important as the content, is how it is to be delivered to the intended audience and this is where the workshops as part of this conference facilitate different approaches to learning .
DSMA is a collaboration of the following institutions:
Leicester Diabetes Centre
This years conference features a host of diabetes experts who are recognised internationally. Professor Melanie Davies, Co-Director of the LDC, will deliver the opening plenary reflecting on the experiences and learning from 20 years of the DESMOND programme.
The Diabetes Self-Management Alliance is delighted to announce that the 6th International Conference will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 21- 22 November 2022. We are delighted to be be able to meet in person for the first time since our successful Stockholm conference in January 2020.
DSMA 2020 will provide participants with the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops led by global experts in the field of Diabetes Self-Management. Workshop facilitators will include representatives from the Steno Diabetes Center, Copenhagen; Leicester Diabetes Centre, UK; NUI Galway, Ireland with facilitators also from Sweden, Norway, Australia, USA, Greece and Germany.
DSMA 2018 will offer a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective in patient education research, self management support and methods of helping people living with diabetes to manage their condition successfully.
We encourage you to participate in the second international summit hosted by the Alliance for Diabetes Self-Management and Prevention. We welcome newcomers as well as previous participants to join this summit. This year we aim to cultivate the great potential for synergy across modern approaches to diabetes self-management and prevention and build on the success of the 2015 inaugural meeting.
These are your two days during which we will all hope to exchange ideas, thoughts and opinions on creating and supporting a Therapeutic Alliance for Better Self-Management and Care in Diabetes. This meeting will establish an implementation strategy for self-management and establish a group to take this vision forward.
