PRIMARY CARE DIABETES WEBINAR SERIES
The National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC) in partnership with the Primary Care Diabetes Society of Australia (PCDSA) is pleased to invite you to a series of lunchtime webinars for healthcare professionals.
A range of topics and speakers is available to all healthcare professionals live and FREE, fortnightly on Thursdays from 12.30 to 1:15 pm through to December 2021.
Save the space in your diary now and ensure you let your healthcare colleagues know that these are FREE to join and certificates will be available as evidence of CPD.
All previous Primary Care Diabetes Webinar episodes can be accessed through our PCD library. If you haven’t yet, sign up on the button below to receive your access to the previous Primary Care Diabetes Webinar episodes.
Watch all previous Primary Care Diabetes Webinar episodes through our PCD library. Sign up on the link below to access the library.
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When: 21 October 2021
Time: Thursday 12:30PM AEDT
Speakers:Dr Melinda Morrison and Associate Professor Glynis Ross
Topic: Gestational diabetes in primary care
When: 18 March 2021
Time: Thursday 12:30PM AEDT
Speaker: Dr Ralph Audehm and Dr Rajna Ogrin
Topic: Foot Complications – FootForward and the role of primary care
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
Dr Melinda Morrison is an APD and CDE with more than 20 years’ experience in diabetes education. She has worked for Diabetes NSW ACT since 1999 and from 2013-16 was employed as the National Program Leader for the NDSS Diabetes in Pregnancy National Development Program which focused on initiatives to support women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to plan and prepare for pregnancy. In 2014 she was awarded a PhD by the University of Newcastle for her research into postnatal health and lifestyle behaviours of Australian women with gestational diabetes. Melinda has published articles in a number of other consumer publications and medical journals. Melinda works closes with the NDSS Diabetes in Pregnancy Expert Reference Group in ensuring the delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based NDSS information and support for women with diabetes.
Associate Professor Glynis Ross is a Visiting Endocrinologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and a Senior Staff Specialist at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital. Glynis has been on the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) Council since 2012 and is currently President.
Her major clinical and research interests are Diabetes in Pregnancy, Type 1 Diabetes, Insulin Pump Therapy and In-patient Diabetes Management.
Dr Ross serves on State and National working parties in these areas and is Chair of the ADS-ANZCA joint working party on Guidelines for Perioperative Diabetes Management to hopefully be released in 2020. She has been Lead Endocrinologist of the Diabetes and Pregnancy service at RPAH for 30 years.
She was on the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) Council from 1991-1998 and 2002-2010 (President 2008-2010). She is involved in the teaching programs of the ADS, Australasian Colleges of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (RANZCOG), and Physicians (RACP), general practitioners and midwives, and previously ANZCA.
Brought to you by the National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC) and the Primary Care Diabetes Society of Australia (PCDSA)
