Solvable Problems in Diabetes at ATTD 2025

Join us for a festive social gathering and enlightening panel discussion, moderated by Professor Tadej Battelino

Friday, March 21, 2025 at 7:00pm
(registration opens at 6:30pm)

RAI
Hall B (Emerald Room)
RAI, Amsterdam

This is a ticketed event to benefit the non-profit work of diaTribe. A limited number of complimentary tickets are available for ATTD faculty and session presenters. (Use coupon code FACULTY at check out. Eligibility for complimentary tickets will be checked at door.) Deeply discounted tickets are also available for all clinicians, researchers, and non-profit advocates without the need of a coupon code. Please contact Rachel Allen with questions.

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Esteemed women at the forefront of diabetes care, research, and advocacy, joined by Professor Tadej Battelino, will discuss diagnosing, delaying, managing and reversing diabetes to improve the daily lives and long-term outcomes for people living with diabetes. Panelists include Julia Mader (Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology at Medical University of Graz), Elaine Chow, MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCP, FHKAM (Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR) Katrien Benhalima (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).

Join us for an evening of food, drink, exceptional networking and learning.

If your company is an event sponsor (below), please email Rachel Allen to learn if there might still be sponsor tickets available for your company.

PANEL CHAIR and MODERATOR

Tadej Battelino, MD PhD

UCH, University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana

Co-chair and organizer of ATTD, Tadej Battelino completed his medical degree at the University of Ljubljana in 1990. He completed a PhD focusing on glucose metabolism in neonatal endotoxic shock in 1996. He completed his clinical fellowship at Loyola University of Chicago, USA, and his postdoctoral fellowship at INSERM, Paris, France. Professor Battelino is currently Consultant and Head of Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, UMC Ljubljana, Head, Chair of Pediatrics, and Professor of Paediatrics at Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. He is PI on several publicly funded research projects in the field of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, and was awarded the Slovene national award for research in 2014, Gold medal for research at the University of Ljubljana in 2017, the ISPAD Achievement Award in 2020, and the Presidential Medal from Children with Diabetes society in 2022.

Professor Battelino serves on the editorial boards for the journals Diabetes Care, Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Acta Diabetologica, and was Editor for the European Journal of Endocrinology from 2009 to 2015. He has authored or co-authored over 316 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and participated in chapters to several international books. He has a cumulative h index of 58.

Professor Battelino is a member of numerous professional associations including the American Diabetes Association (ADA), European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), for which he served as President for the 35th Annual Congress. He served on the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) council and is co-organizer of fifteen annual meetings of the Advanced Technologies and Treatment of Diabetes - ATTD. He is an elected Honorary member of the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SIEDP) and the Hellenic Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology (EEPEE). Professor Battelino is a member of the Slovenian Medical Academy, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

PANELISTS

Julia Mader
Julia Mader is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology at Medical University of Graz and Deputy Head of the Diabetes Outpatient Clinic. She graduated at Medical University of Graz where she also trained in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. She was Visiting Professor at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland (2016-2017). She leads the Diabetes Technology Research Unit at Medical University of Graz.

Her research focuses on diabetes technology with emphasis on insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring, automated insulin delivery systems, decision support systems and technology to monitor diabetic foot syndrome. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has received several national and international awards in the field of diabetes technology. She is management board member of the Austrian Diabetes Society, within which she heads the Diabetes Education Committee and is a member of the Diabetes Technology Committee. She has authored and co-authored several national guidelines in the field.

Elaine Chow, MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCP, FHKAM
Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Professor Elaine Chow received her medical training in the UK and completed her PhD on cardiovascular effects of hypoglycaemia with Prof. Simon Heller at University of Sheffield in 2015. She has since joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong with Prof Juliana Chan and her group, where she helped set up glucose clamp and sensor evaluation studies at the Phase 1 Clinical Trial Center. She secured a number of external grants, and currently leads clinical trials on use of CGM in prediabetes, advanced chronic kidney disease, and peritoneal dialysis. In particular, she is interested in the use of CGM to evaluate basal insulins as well as other drug and non-drug interventions. She has been principal investigator or co-investigator for over 70 Phase 1 to 4 studies relating to cardiometabolic drugs. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including articles in Diabetes Care, Diabetes, and Nature Reviews Endocrinology. She has also received several awards, including the Hong Kong College of Physicians Richard Yu Lecture and Women’s Interprofessional Network of the American Diabetes Association abstract award in 2022. In addition to teaching and research, she is associate editor and editorial board member for several journals.

Katrien Benhalima
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

Katrien Benhalima is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has a senior clinical research fellowship from the Flemish Research Council (FWO). Her clinical areas of interest include new technologies for type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes in young adults, gestational diabetes and pre-gestational diabetes & pregnancy. Her research is focused on gestational diabetes, pregestational diabetes and pregnancy, and postpartum prevention of diabetes. She is the principal investigator of several large RCT’s, including the CRISTAL study, on the MiniMed 780G system in pregnancies complicated by type 1 diabetes.

She is actively involved in the ‘Diabetic Pregnancy Study Group’ (DPSG) associated with EASD. She won several awards for her research such as the rising star researcher award by Primary Care Diabetes Europe in 2018, and in 2020 the Belgium Novo Nordisk award for Diabetetology and the Dr. Karel-Lodewijk Verleysen award of the ‘Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium’.