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2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes.
March 28-30, 2011
Hilton New York

The Second World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary forum with a stellar faculty of leaders in diabetes, cardiology, surgery, gastroenterology, basic science and public health. The First World Congress is regarded as a highly influential event that raised attention to diabetes surgery as an important research priority and fostered debate about its implications for diabetes care and health policies.

The signature design of this congress includes state-of-the art review lectures by leading world experts followed by a debate aimed to solving controversies and generating consensus. Specific themes of the Second World Congress include:

• Latest research findings on interventional therapies for type 2 diabetes and criteria for indication to diabetes surgery
• Impact of interventional therapies on cardiovascular risk in diabetic patients
• Role of integrated surgical and medical approaches for uncontrolled diabetes (multimodality therapies)Novel technologies and gastrointestinal devices for diabetes
• The role of the endocrinologist, the surgeon, and the family physician in the modern, disease-based approach to diabetes and metabolic diseases
• Conventional paradigms vs novel ideas on the etiology of diabetes and obesity: a forum for debate by leading scientists in the field
• Mechanisms of surgical control of diabetes: gastrointestinal targets for drug development
• Oral and poster presentations

For more information, visit the conference website at www.wcidt.org.