LAHORE: Pakistan Endocrine Society President Professor Dr Ali Jawa said Wednesday that around 50 globally renowned doctors and researchers will share their researches and studies at the 15th Annual Pakistan Endocrine Society conference to be held on November 23.
Addressing a pre-conference press briefing, he said the conference was a rare opportunity for Pakistani doctors who treated diabetes to benefit from the knowledge of world experts on the subject. It is important to mention here that the event would be attended by more than 70 medical consultants from across the country.
Dr Ali said that the four-day South Asian Federation of Endocrine would be bringing experts from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal to share their research and experience with participants of the conference.
He said that endocrine experts from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region would formulate a joint strategy to assess prevalence, as well as address common endocrine disorders, as the region had similar cultures and eating habits.
Dr Ali further said that the highlight of the conference would be the unveiling of the largest research study on prevalence of diabetes ever conducted in the country. The study, he said, had been conducted by collecting data of more than 19,000 subjects from across the country, including interior Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Federally Administered Tribal Area.
He also said that a study had been conducted by Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar in collaboration with the Pakistan Endocrine Society and the University of Manchester, University of Glasgow and Khyber Medical College University.
He added that on the concluding day of the conference, SAFES Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) guidelines would be discussed. These guidelines have jointly been developed by the South Asian Endocrine Society for the benefit of practicing doctors treating patients with gestational diabetes.