UHN / MSH Medical Grand Rounds: "New Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes"

Wednesday, September 8, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Mount Sinai Hospital
Auditorium, 18th Floor

Videoconferenced to:
Toronto General Hospital - EN 1-429/430**
Toronto Western Hospital – Main Auditorium, 2 West Wing, Room #401

“New Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes”

SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel J. Drucker
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Division of Endocrinology, UHN/MSH
Director, Banting and Best Diabetes Centre
Senior Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute,
Mount Sinai Hospital

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify unmet needs in diabetes therapeutics
2. Review current approaches to treating type 2 diabetes
3. Understand physiological mechanisms regulating metabolic control
4. Assess risk:benefit ratio of recently approved diabetes medications

UHNMSH FLYER Sept 8 10 MSH Drucker