We are very excited to partner with the Northern Community Health & Research Foundation (NCHRF) to host international guest presenter, Professor Ian MacDonald from Nottingham UK to share what is happening to diabetes internationally and the intervention studies on prevention and remission of type 2 diabetes.

About the speaker:

Prof Ian MacDonald is Emeritus Professor of Metabolic Physiology and former Head of the School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

His research addresses the functional consequences of metabolic and nutritional disturbances in health and disease, with specific interests in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and exercise. His recent work has focused on the metabolic aspects of diabetes and obesity, including the effects of diet composition and weight loss, and the impact of dietary supplements on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, and of the effects of surgical trauma and of immobilisation on insulin sensitivity and whole body metabolism.

He has published over 400 peer-reviewed original research papers, together with reviews, book chapters and invited contributions. He was President of the UK Nutrition Society from 2007-2010 and was Treasurer of FENS from 2011 to 2019, and of the World Obesity Federation from 2009 to 2019. He was joint Editor of the International Journal of Obesity from 2000 to 2021, a member of the UK Department of Health’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition from 2008 to 2020, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, a Registered Nutritionist and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Nutrition, a Fellow of the Physiological Society, and a Fellow of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

In August 2020 he took up a 2 year post as Scientific Director of the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Nestle Research, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand strategies to reduce the risk of developing diabetes.
• Explore diabetes remission and the methods by which it can be accomplished.
• Examine how metabolism, obesity, and lifestyle choices interplay in the prevention and remission of diabetes.
• Explore key messages for GPs to communicate to patients regarding diabetes prevention and remission.

CPD accreditation with RACGP and ACRRM pending.