ADA Scientific Sessions

Snapshots and Snippets from the ADA Scientific Sessions

By MikeH on June 10, 2012

Our team is sprinting around the Philadelphia Convention Center for the 72nd American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions this weekend, trying to pick up on all the latest and greatest progress in the diabetes world! Here are some snapshots and interesting nuggets on what we’re seeing and hearing.
Photos inside the massive Expo Hall with hundreds of exhibitors and industry folk are not allowed, so we got some fun “candids” instead.  We should note that walking…

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Live from ADA 2012: A Chat with the Org’s CEO

By AmyT on June 9, 2012

Our team is in Philadelphia right now at the biggest diabetes event of the year: the annual American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions conference. We’re soaking up the abundant research and technology news, and will have much to report this coming week!
As a kick-off, please enjoy today’s video interview (below) that I was able to snag with the ADA’s CEO Larry Hausner.
Note that we’ve interviewed him before in a two-part printed series:
1)…

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Headed to ADA 2012 in Philly: Got Questions?

By AmyT on June 7, 2012

Our team will be out of the office tomorrow as we all head to Philadelphia to attend the 72nd annual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions conference. We at the ‘Mine are very excited to be covering this event for the 8th year running (!)
For the first time ever, the ADA is all over social media, not only with a twitter feed (@ADA_DiabetesPro), a Facebook page, an iPhone app and a Blackberry/Android app for attendees,…

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EASD: Europe’s Big Diabetes Shindig

By AllisonN on September 16, 2011

Since we tend to be pretty America-centric over here, we wanted to shine a spotlight on the annual conference for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which is Europe’s equivalent to the American Diabetes Association. EASD is a huge professional org for doctors, researchers, nurses, students, and so on, with 7,000 members — from 110 different countries!
In addition to the annual conference, the EASD also produces their own trade publication, Diabetologia,…

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