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Programme 

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Day 1 - Monday 9th June 

TimeSession/Presenter/Topic
09:00 - 13:00     Screening Programmes 
The Italian Experience - Emanuele Bosi, Milan
The US Experience - Marian Rewers, Denver, Colorado
ELSA - Lauren Quinn, Birmingham 
T1DRA - Kathleen Gillespie - Bristol
UK National Screening Committee POV - TBC
A patient experience of screening - 10 mins for family and adult (ELSA, T1DRA)

Panel discussion on implementing screening in the UK: PCDS, UKNSC, Patient, all speakers


Screening Process

Optimising Ab assays for T1D screening – Alex Richter, Birmingham

How can genetic analysis support the identification of children and adults with pre-symptomatic T1D? – Richard Oram, Exeter


Parallel ‘meet the expert’ sessions in breakout rooms 

a) Screening programmes or b) The screening process

13:00 - 14:00       LUNCH
14:00 - 17:00Research studies into Monitoring of pre-T1D
Current UK Research Monitoring studies in Children: Loredana Marcovecchio, Cambridge


Current UK Research Monitoring studies in Adults: Anna Long, Bristol


Managing pre-T1D in UK clinical practice

Monitoring children in UK clinical practice and the UK Ab Registry: Rachel Besser - Oxford 

Accurate disease classification and monitoring of pre-T1D in adults: Nick Thomas - Exeter 


Panel Discussion with Marc Atkin, Fulya Mehta, led by Fiona Campbell, Parth Narendran


Parallel ‘meet the expert’ sessions in breakout rooms 

a) Running a pre-T1D service in paediatrics (RD/RB) or b) Running a pre-T1D service in adults (NT/PN)


Day 2 - Tuesday 10th June 

TimeSession/Presenter/Topic
09:00 - 13:00     The psychological impact of early detection T1D detection 
Summary of evidence so far
- Olga Boiko, Birmingham 
Peer support - Ian Litchfield, Birmingham
New ways to assess impact - TBC 

Panel discussion led by Felicity Boardman with all speakers


Disease Modifying Therapy for T1D 

Lessons from MS - Gavin Giovannoni, London

The US Experience - Kimber Simmons, Denver 

The UK Experience - Renuka Dias, Birmingham and Neil Wright, Sheffield

Experience of a local family - TBC 

Navigating the practicalities of accessing and delivering a 14-day therapy - Phil Newland Jones, Southampton

Early finding from the NHS FIT study of DMT therapy in the UK - Matthew Randell, Warwick


13:00 - 14:00       LUNCH
14:00 - 17:00
The Future 

Pipeline of DMTs in T1D - TBC

The T1DRC, Platform trials and the future - Colin Dayan - Cardiff 

Close and Departure