Latin America Summit presentations 

Address by Professor Pierre Lefébvre, Chairman, World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark 

Address by Professor Jean-Claude Mbanya, President, International Diabetes Federation, Brussels, Belgium

Address by Dr James Hospedales, Senior Advisor, Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA

Address by Dr Luis Orlando Perez, Senior Health Specialist, World Bank, Argentina   (Replacement for Dr Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo, Senior Health Specialist, Human Development Network, World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA)

Address by Dr Roger Glass, Director, Fogarty International Centre NIH, Bethesda, USA

Message from Dr Ala Alwan, Assistant Director General, World Health Organization, Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health, Geneva, Switzerland

Keynote Lecture by Dr Griffin Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, USA

Address by His Excellency Minister of Health, Mr José Gomes Temporão

Address by His Excellency Governor of Bahia, Mr Jaques Wagner

 Thursday

Estimates of global and regional burden of diabetes. Dr Gojka Roglic, Technical Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Diabetes related excess risk of cardiovascular diseases, chronic renal failure, retinopathy and limb amputations. Dr Maria Inês Schmidt, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, Brazil

Rising burden of diabetes and consequence for tuberculosis control. Dr Blanca Restrepo, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA  (Will not be published here) 

The cost of diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr Alberto Barcelo, Regional Advisor, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA

Gender and Diabetes in the Americas. Micheline Marie Milward de Azevedo Meiners, NCD Technical Division, PAHO, Brazil  (Replacement for Dr Aurora del Rio Zolezzi, Assistant Director General for Gender Equity, Ministry of Health, Mexico)

Maternal malnutrition and small for gestational age (SGA) babies. Dr Bruce Duncan, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Allegre, Brazil

Gestational and pregestational diabetes and large for gestational age (LGA) babies. Dr Patrick Catalano, Professor, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Early infancy as a critical period for development of obesity and diabetes. Dr Mathew Gillman, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Primary prevention is possible, can it be done at the community level? Dr Roberto Treviño, Director, Social and Health Research Centre, San Antonio, Texas, USA  (Presentation cancelled)

Translating research into action for diabetes, learnings from the TRIAD project. Dr Edward W Gregg, Chief of the Epidemiology and Statistics Branch in the Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Improving care provider and patient knowledge is key to better diabetes outcomes in low resource economies. Dr Juan Jose Gagliardino, Director of the Center of Experimental and Applied Endocrinology at the National University of La Plata, Argentina

Addressing the double burden of diabetes and tuberculosis: is programme integration at the primary care level possible? Dr Mauricio Barreto, Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Developing and implementing national policy for hypertension and diabetes - the Hiperdia programme in Brazil. Dr Rosa Sampaio Vila Nova de Carvalho, National Coordinator Hypertension and Diabetes, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil

Cost-effective interventions for preventing and treating diabetes and its complications in low resource and emerging economies. Dr K Venkat Narayan, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

Pan American Health Organization's regional strategy and plan of action on an integrated approach to the prevention and control of chronic diseases. Dr James Hospedales, Senior Advisor, Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA

Quality improvement initiatives for diabetes in the Caribbean. Dr Tamu Davidson-Sadler, Medical Epidemiologist for Chronic Diseases and Injuries, Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica

E-access to diabetes education and information. Dr Maria Cristina Escobar, Head of the Health of the Adult Programme, Ministry of Health, Chile

E-learning for health professionals in Latin America. Dr Ayeza Bonilla, Adjunct Professor of the diabetes educators bachelor degree, Mexican Diabetes Federation, Mexico City, Mexico

Building research partnerships. Dr Roger Glass, Director, Fogarty International Centre NIH, Bethesda, USA

Models for building in-country capacity for chronic disease/diabetes research. Dr Manuel Ramirez-Zea, General Coordinator, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala

Priorities and future vision for diabetes research. Dr Griffin Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, USA

Training the primary care units - UBS - SUS in diabetes. Professor Fadlo Fraige Filho, President, National Association of Diabetes Care, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Regional diabetes centres in Cuba. Dr Oscar Díaz Díaz, Consultant Professor, Medical University of Havana, Cuba

Prevention of foot complications - the Andean Vascular Axis. Ms Martha Mora de García Belaunde, President, Peruvian Juvenile Diabetes Association, Lima, Peru

Improving access to prevention and care of diabetes in Bolivia. Dr Elisabeth Duarte de Munoz, Director, Live with Diabetes Centre, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Developing and implementing nutrition protocol in the Caribbean. Dr Laura D Richards, Consultant Medical Dietitian, Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute, Kingston, Jamaica

Gestational diabetes diagnosis and treatment in Panama and Jamaica. Dr Jose Ramon Calvo, Director General, International Centre for Migration, Health and Development, Madrid, Spain   (Replacementy for Dr Manuel Carballo, Director, International Centre for Migration, Health and Development, Geneva, Switzerland)

Strengthening care for diabetes and pregnancy in Cuba. Dr Antonio M. Márquez Guillén, National Institute of Endocrinology, Havana, Cuba

Promoting a healthy lifestyle in school children in the Caribbean. Mrs Christine Bocage, Nutritionist, Trinidad Centre Caribbean Food & Nutrition Institute, University of the West Indies Campus St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

Capacity building to improve diabetes care - the PROCED programme. Dr Reine Marie Chaves Fonseca, Director of CEDEBA, Salvador, Brazil

The chronic care model and diabetes control in Veracruz, Mexico: the VIDA project. Dr Esperanza Medina Holguin, State Manager, Ministry of Health, Veracruz, Mexico

Diabetes in Central America. Dr Eduardo Palacios, Chief of the National Programme of Chronic Disease, Ministry of Health, Guatemala

Building blocks in diabetes education and control in missions. Dr Gilda Benitez Rolandi, Director, National Diabetes Programme, Ministry of Health, Paraguay

The World Diabetes Foundation Report (global and regional initiatives). Dr Anil Kapur, Managing Director, World Diabetes Foundation, Lyngby, Denmark

The Bahia Call for Action