Speakers

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Scientific Program

Confirmed Speakers and Titles: (Alphabetical)

M. B. Anand-Srivastava (Montreal)          
"Alterations in G-Protein-Linked Signal Transduction in Vascular Smooth Muscles in Diabetes" 
Todd Anderson  (Calgary)
"Impact of Diabetes on Vascular Function: Implications
     for Angioplasty"
Jamie Blanchard  (Winnipeg)
"The Prevalence of Diabetes in Canada"
David Brindley  (Edmonton)
"Interaction of TNF with Insulin Signaling"
                
Ellen Burgess  (Calgary)
"The Effect of Hypertension on Diabetes Outcomes"
George Carruthers  (London)
"Hypertension, Its Management and Outcomes"
Subrata Chakrabarti  (London)
"Vasoactive Factors in the Diabetic Heart and
    Microvasculature"
Jean Louis Chiasson  (Montreal)
"Implications of UKPDS Trial"
Arun Chockalingam  (Ottawa)
"Cost Effectiveness of Blood Pressue Monitoring"
David E. Cole  (Toronto)
"Homocysteine as a Risk Factor in Cardiovascular Disease"
Phil Connelly  (Toronto)
"Relationship of Apo-Lipoproteins and Diabetes in the
     Canadian Heart Health Study"
Jean Davignon  (Montreal)
"Advances in Lipid Lowering Therapy in Atherosclerosis"
Heather Dean  (Winnipeg)
"Type 2 Diabetes in the Young"
Prakash Deedwania  (San Francisco)
"Diabetes, Insulin Resistence and CV Disease in
    Asian Indians"
Noella Depew  (Winnipeg)
"Diabetes: The Manitoba Strategy - A Public Health Approach"
Jean-Pierre Després  (Ste. Foy)
"The Insulin Resistence Syndrome of Abdominal Obesity:
    Clinical and Public Health Implications Beyond the
    Prevention of  Type 2 Diabetes"
John Embil  (Winnipeg)
"Amputation Prevention and Rehabilitation in Diabetes"
John Farquhar  Stanford)
"Risk Factor Reduction in a Community Setting"
Erika Froelicher  (San Francisco)
"The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease in Women"
Jiri Frohlich  (Vancouver)
"Modified Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Risk"
Dale Gelskey  (Winnipeg)
"Patterns of Glycosylated Hemoglobin and Fasting Plasma
     Glucose in a Population with Diagnosed and
     Non - Diagnosed Diabetes"
Jacques G. Genest Jr.  (Montreal)
"Lipoproteins, Diabetes and Coronary Disease"
Hertzel Gerstein  (Hamilton)
"Plasma Glucose - A Continuous Risk Factor for Vascular
     Disease in the Non-Diabetic and Diabetic"
Avrum I. Gotlieb  (Toronto)
"Endothelial Integrity and Repair"
Ramesh K. Goyal  (Ahmedabad)
"Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Disease in
     Asian Indians"
S. K. Gupta  (New Delhi)
"Effect of Diabetes on Hemodynamics and
     Cardiometabolic Correlates in Experimental
     Myocardial Infarction"
Randy Guzman  (Winnipeg)
"Peripheral Vascular Surgery in Diabetes:
     A Population Study"
Andrew Hamilton  (Winnipeg)
"Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Manitoba (1994 - 1998):
     Effects of Diabetes on Outcomes"
Dexter Harvey  (Winnipeg)
"Heart Health Dissemination: Scientific and Practical
     Knowledge from the Canadian Experience"
Robert Hegele  (London, ON)
"Multi-Gene Associations of Diabetes, Obesity and
    Lipid Risk Factors"
Bruce Holub (Guelph)
"The Role of Omega 3 Fatty Acids in Heart Health"
Issei Imanaga  (Fukuoka)
"Abnormalities of Intercellular Impulse Propagation in
     Diabetic Cardiac Muscle"
Sushil K. Jain  (Shreveport)
"Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
    Factors in Diabetes"
Kiminori Kato  (Niigata)
"Modification of Diabetes-Induced Changes in Cardiac
    Na+- K+ ATPase by Etomoxir"
C. L. Kaul  (Chandigarh)
"Sympathetic Nervous System in Diabetes and
     Hypertension"
Keld Kjeldsen  (Copenhagen)
"Human Muscular Na, K-ATPase in Diabetes"
Maria Z. Koltai  (Budapest)
"Is the Hyperglycemia the Primary Factor Impairing
    Endothelial Function of the Coronary Artery in
    Diabetes Mellitus?"
Jeffery Koplan  (Atlanta)
"American Cardiovascular Health Initiative"
Jos. M. J. Lamers  (Rotterdam)
"On the Role of Glucose-Induced Signaling and  
    Changes in Protein Expression in the Evolution
    of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy"
David Lau  (Ottawa)
"Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Insights form Adipose
     Cell Biology"
Gary Lewis  (Toronto)
"Insulin Resistence and Lipoprotein Metabolism"
Gary Lopaschuck  (Edmonton)
"Abnormal Control of Fatty Acid Oxidation in the Diabetic
    Rat Heart"
Claire Lugnier  (Illkirch)
"Cyclic Nucleotides Phosphodiosterases Families in
    Intracellular Signaling and Diabetes"
Michel Joffres  (Halifax)
"Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in
     Canadians with Diabetes Mellitus: 
     The Canadian Heart Health Surveys"
Sharon Macdonald  (Winnipeg)
"Putting Policy into Actioin"
Naoki  Makino  (Beppu)
"Cardiac Hypertrophy in Diabetic Patients without 
     Hypertension is Associated Hyperinsulinemia"
Ashwani Malhorta  (Valhalla)
"Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin System in Experimental
     Diabetes"
Klaus Malmberg  (Stockholm)
"Insulin Treatment Post Myocardial Infarction:
    The DIGAMI Study"
Ricky Man  (Hong Kong)
"Low Density Lipoprotein Oxidation, Diabetes and
    Endothelial Function"
Dennis B. McNamara  (New Orleans)
"Response of the Vascular Wall to Balloon Catheter Injury
    in Alloxan-Induced Diabetes: Intimal Thickening,
    Re-endothelialization and Enthothelium-Dependent
    Vasorelaxation"
John McNeill  (Vancouver)
"Insulin and Endothelial Function: Diabetes
    and Hypertension"
W. Phillip Mickelson  (Ottawa)
"Federal Role in Health: Canadian Diabetes Prevention and
    Control Strategy"
Makota Nagano  (Tokyo)
"The Diabetic Heart and Cardiac Glycosides"
C. David Naylor  (Toronto)
"Clinical Epidemiology of Coronary Artery Disease and
    Outcomes of Coronary Intervention"
Brian O'Connor  (Vancouver)
"The Canadian Heart Health Initiative"
Kenji Okumura  (Nagoya)
"Alterations in 1, 2-Diacylglycerols and Ceramides in
    Diabetic Rat Heart"
Shunzo Onishi  (Osaka)
"Study of Pathology in the Diabetic Heart Disease of
         the Rat"
Vincenzo Panagia  (Winnipeg)
"Pathophysiology of Sarcolemmal Phospholipid-Mediated
    Signaling in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy"
Xavier Pi-Sunyer  (New York)
"Reducing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in
    People with Diabetes"
Grant N. Pierce  (Winnipeg)
"Ischemic Injury in the Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetic
     Aninal"
Barry I. Posner  ((Montreal)
"The Mechanisms of Insulin Action"
Jennifer O'Loughlin  (Montreal)
"G7 Project Promoting Heart Health"
S. S. Rastogi  (Vikas Marg, Delhi)
"Vascular Disease in Diabetes - New Therapeutic Options"
Tanya Ravingerova  (Bratislava.)
"Response to Ischemia and Endogenous Myocardial
    Protection in the Diabetic Heart"
Bruce Reeder  (Saskatoon)
"National and International Strategies in the
     Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes"
R. Timothy Regan  (Newark)
"Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in the Diabetic:  
     Role of Collagen Alterations"
Wilson Rodger  (London)
"The Diabetes COuncil of Canada: Co-ordinating
     National Diabetes Strategies"
Peter Rösen  (Düsseldorf)
"Molecular Mechanisms of Endothelial Dysfunction of the
     Diabetic Heart"
Heinz Rupp  (Marburg)
"Differential Effects of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase 
     Activation and CPT-1 Inhibition on the
     Diabetic Heart"
J. C. Russell  (Edmonton)
"Type 2 Diabetes: Pharmacological Intervention in
     Animal Models"
Stephen W. Schaffer  (Mobile)
"Protection Against Ischemic and Hypoxic Injury 
     by Diabetes and High Glucose Treatment"
David Severson  (Calgary)
"Cardiac Function in Perfused Hearts from Diabetic and
    Transgenic Mice"
Pawan K. Singal  (Winnipeg)
"Oxidative Stress and Functional Deficit in
    Diabetic Cardiomyopathy"
Ashok Srivastava  (Montreal)
"Modulation of Vasoactive Peptide Signaling by Insulin
     in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells"
George Steiner (Toronto)
"Lipoprotein Disorders in Diabetes: Rationale and
     Appproach to Therapy"
Michael P. Stern  (San Antonio)
"Diabetes and High Risk Ethnic Populations"
Heinrich Taegtmeyer  (Houston)
"Transcriptional Responses of the Heart in
    Insulin-Deficient Rats"
Nobuakira Takeda  (Tokyo)
"Cardiac Gene Expression in the Diabetic Heart"
Hiroshi Watanabe  (Hamamatsu)
"Role of Insulin in the Regulation of Endothelial [Ca 2+],
    and Vascular Tone"
Kue Young  (Winnipeg)
"Undiagnosed Diabetes: Does it Matter?"
Attila Ziegelhoffer  (Bratislava.)
"Regulation of Na, K-ATPase in the Diabetic Myocardium:
    Quantitative Changes Related to Modulation of
    Calcium Sensitivity of the Diabetic Heart"
Bernard Zinman  (Toronto)
"Prevalence and Impact of Diabetes in a Canadian Native
     Community: The Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes
      Project"

      Workshops

  1. Cardiovascular Diasese Risk Reduction Clinic: Optimum Model

                    Jiri Frohlich (Vancouver)
                      Kori Kingsbury
                    John Farquhar

  1.    Tight Gylcemic Control

                 Moderator:     Sora Ludwig
                Speakers:        Jean Louis Chiasson
                                      Mike Leroux

 

    3.     Promoting Heart Health

               "The Canadian Heart Health Initiative"
                      Brian O'Connor (Vancouver)

               "G7 Project Promoting Heart Health"
                      Jennifer O'Loughlin  (Montreal)

               "American Cardiovascular Health Initiative"
                         TBA

                "Heart Health in the Diabetic Population"
                       TBA

 

HEALTH POLICY FORUM

Speakers:    Sharon Macdonald  (Winnipeg)
                  Bruce Reader    (Saskatoon)
                  Wilson Rodger  (London)
                  Government Representative: W. Phillip Mickelson  (Ottawa)

 

Meet the Professor Sessions

Friday June 4th, 1999        
    John Embil
    Director Foot Clinic at Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg)

Saturday June 5th, 1999     
    George Carruther
    Professor and Chair of Medicine at University of Western Ontario

Sunday June 6th, 1999
    Moderator    Vincent Woo
    Discussant    Sara Meltzer

 

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