Diabetes

THE EUROPEAN Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting is the largest international annual conference on diabetes research worldwide. Founded in 1965,

Diabetes is predicted to affect 5.5 million individuals by 2030 in the UK alone. There is no known cure for this increasingly common condition and current treatment includes medication, weight loss surgery, and lifestyle changes.

The most exciting changes have actually been to the changes in format. The EASD this year is, again, a virtual meeting only. There’s a couple of interesting changes in format. First of all, we are starting not at 8 a.m. in the morning, Central European Summer Time, but 10 a.m.; and it goes on until 5:30 p.m. or 6 p.m. This is so that people in different time zones don’t have to get up at 3 in the morning or stay up until 3 at night at the end of each day.

In my previous role, I worked in the Pharma and was in the industry for about 20 years, but I felt that by working in medical affairs, I was also working closely with people. By with people, I mean people with diabetes first of all, and also with disease experts. So, in a role such as this, I would say that it involves working both for the company, with commercial interests, and for the real world, which is the world of patients and physicians. Being a bit in between, testing what disease experts and patients think about your solutions, and bringing that back internally to the company was really interesting for me.

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Prof Chantal Mathieu | Professor of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit; Chair of Endocrinology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg; Vice President of EASD…