| ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Organizing Committee consists of a body of internationally renowned faculty responsible for the overall planning and organization of the symposium:
Aaron Vinik, MD, PhD, FCP, MACP
Organizing Committee Chair
Director, Strelitz Diabetes
Research Institutes
Professor of Medicine/Pathology/Neurobiology
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Soruku Yagihasi, MD, PhD
Scientific Program Committee Chair
Professor of the Department of Pathology
Hirosaki University School of Medicine
Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
Andrew JM Boulton, MD, FRCP
Professor of Medicine
University of Manchester
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
University of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Vera Bril, BSc, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
University Health Network
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paul Valensi, MD
Professor of Nutrition
Department of Endocrinology Diabetology Nutrition
Jean Verdier Hospital
Paris Nord University
Bondy, France
Nigishi Hotta, MD, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Nagoya University School of Medicine
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Dan Ziegler, MD, FRCP
German Diabetes Clinic
German Diabetes Center
Leibniz Institute at the
Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Germany
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The following esteemed international faculty are responsible for the development of the Scientific Program and selection of invited speakers and abstract presenters:
Soruku Yagihasi, MD, PhD
Scientific Program Committee Chair
Professor of the Department of Pathology
Hirosaki University School of Medicine
Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
David G Armstrong, DPM, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Chair of Research and Assistant Dean
Dr. William M. Scholl
College of Podiatric Medicine at
Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, Illinois,
United States of America
Nigel Calcutt, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California,
United States of America
Solomon Tesfaye, MB ChB, MD, FRCP
Head of Diabetes Research
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Mary Cotter, PhD
Professor of Systems Physiology
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Peter Kempler MD, PhD, DSc
Professor of Medicine
1st Department of Medicine
Semmelweis University Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
Douglas Zochodne, MD, FRCPC
Professor With Tenure
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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