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ANDA Webinar – 26th May
26 May, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Topic: Australian National Diabetes Audit Webinar
Speaker: Professor Sophia Zoungas and Dr Konrad Kangru
Professor Sophia Zoungas is an endocrinologist and a leading clinician scientist and trialist. She is Head of the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University and Professor of Diabetes, Vascular Health and Ageing.
Her research focus is on the generation and implementation of evidence for the prevention, screening and management of chronic conditions such as diabetes and its complications of kidney and cardiovascular disease.
Professor Zoungas directs and supports projects and teaching on health care delivery, as well as advises on clinical epidemiological methods and trial design/conduct/reporting.
Dr Konrad Kangru, General Practitioner Whitsunday Doctors Service President, Rural Doctors Association of Queensland Adjunct Senior Lecturer, James Cook University School of Medicine.
Dr Kangru gained his MBBS from University of Queensland in 2000. He has been in private Rural General Practice in the Whitsundays region of Queensland since 2005, where he has been a GP Supervisor and Medical Educator since 2009.
He has remained a very active advocate for improving the support of rural doctors, especially through the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland, having convened their 2011 and 2015 conferences.
Dr Kangru has also undertaken and presented his research on the Self-Care of rural doctors, and has special interests in Medical Education and Diabetes management, particularly in up-skilling colleagues about this important condition.
