Our meeting aim is to raise the profile of self-management and prevention by: 

• Establishing a forum for discussing and developing new approaches in diabetes self-management and prevention

• Broadly disseminating knowledge, challenges and needs in modern diabetes self-management and prevention

• Contributing to a state of the art position paper on the challenges of and recommendations for development and research

The meeting will be opened by the Rt. Hon Keith Vaz MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes, UK.

Already secured as key note speakers are:

Prof Lawrence Fisher – Working in the Behavioral Diabetes Research Group, University of California, USA. Lawrence Fisher leads on studies looking at behavioural change interventions 

Dr Natalia Piana - An expert in therapeutic education for those with chronic diseases and in  training health care professionals in therapeutic patient education based at the University of Perugia, Italy

Prof Bjarne Bruun Jensen - As director of Steno Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center in Gentofte, Denmark, Bjarne is a front-runner in health promotion research in diabetes

Prof Melanie Davies – Internationally-renowned in the field of diabetes and beyond, Melanie’s research  interests include prevention, self-management and treatment of type 2 diabetes.