SED will offer the most important advances in diabetes of the Congresses of the ADA and the EASD 2014 through the Internet.
The Spanish Diabetes Society (SED) will offer its partners the main novelties of the two most important diabetes congresses worldwide in an agile, dynamic and immediate way.In this sense, both the Annual Congress of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) that will be held between June 13 and 17 in San Francisco, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes(EASD, for its acronym in English) that will take place between September 15 and 19 in Vienna, will be the subject of videos to which the partners of thirst will be able to access through their mobile phone.These initiatives, sponsored by Astrazeneca, are framed within the company's commitment to continued training and the latest advances in the field of diabetes.
Keypoints in Diabetes is an application for mobiles and tablets that specialists can download for free on their iPhone or Android mobile devices.They can access the four daily videos of the main presentations and presentations of these congresses that will be prepared by four thirst members.These summaries will last between four and six minutes and will be accompanied by a selection of slides to complete the information provided by specialists.
In addition to the Keypoints in Diabetes application, thirst makes available to its partners Sedpoints in Diabetes (www.sedpointsindiabetes.com), an online platform in which specialists will be able to access a videoconferencing in which five Spanish experts will debate, of aDynamic form, on the novelties presented in the Congress of the ADA, of San Francisco.The videoconference will be held on June 17 at 3:30 p.m. (Spanish time).
Thanks to this initiative, specialists will not only be able to follow live videoconference but also send their questions to the speakers in real time through this online platform.
The specialists who will be present in this videoconference are the following:
• Moderator.Prof. Holder José Esteban Jódar Gimeno, Head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Quirón University Hospital in Madrid.
• Participant.Prof. Ramón Gomis de Bárbara, Executive Director of IDIBAPS.
• Participant.Prof. Luis Antonio Castaño González, scientific director of the Biocruces Research Institute
• Participant.Dr. Javier Díez Espino, from the Tafalla Health Center of Navarra.
• Participant.Dr. Juan Francisco Merino, Head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the La Fe hospital in Valencia.
