Diabetes 2020
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Diabetes & Endocrinology 2020
Euroscicon is proud to host the International Conference on Diabetes & Endocrinology taking place on September 21-22, 2020 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The conference is themed around “Current challenges and innovations in the field of Diabetes” with the aim to bring together a wide audience of industry, healthcare, research, and medical practitioners to educate and bring about a fruitful debate on the confined topics. This Diabetes Conferences will be a great event to network, learn and engage with professionals in the field of diabetes and endocrinology.
Benefits of Participation:
Call for research abstracts are open for oral papers, poster presentations and scientific panel discussions across the highlighted sessions in the website and proposals on other topics that are not listed are also welcome provided, they meet the objectives of the conference. Our moto is to inspire, discuss, and work together to bring out a solution for various problems associated with diabetes and endocrinology.
- Best platform to develop new partnership & collaborations.
- Best location to speed up your route into every territory in the World.
- Most of our conference attendees are the Key contact in their labs purchasing decisions.
- Network development with both Academia and Business
- Professional learning experience.
Who can attend?
International Diabetes Conferences lays a platform for the diabetologists, endocrinologists and experts both from Industry and Academia working in various sub domains of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism. The conference is open for all the professionals working in:
Diabetes professionals
Endocrinology professionals
Researchers
Physicians
Business Analysts
Academicians
Lab technicians
Educators
Primary care specialists
Health care specialists
Policy makers and direct service providers
Sessions/Tracks
Diabetes impacts how the body coordinates blood glucose levels. Insulin diminishes measurements of blood glucose however glucagon's job is to grow blood glucose levels. In people without diabetes, insulin and glucagon collaborate to keep blood glucose levels balanced. In diabetes, the body either doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't respond authentically to insulin causing unevenness between the effects of insulin and glucagon. In type 1 diabetes, the body can't convey enough insulin therefore blood glucose ends up being excessively high aside from if insulin is implanted.
In type 2 diabetes, the body is unfit to respond feasibly to insulin, which can in like manner bring about higher than conventional blood glucose levels. Medications for type 2 diabetes consolidate those which help to assemble insulin affectability, those which empower the pancreas to release more insulin and various remedies which prevent the appearance of glucagon.
Diabetes happens when the glucose, or sugar, in the blood is insufficiently controlled and dependably high. Type 1 happens when the body doesn't make enough of the hormone that empowers cells to hold and use glucose. This hormone is called insulin. While an individual can deflect type 2 by avoiding a sugar-rich eating normal and torpid lifestyle, staying away from type 1 is past the domain of creative mind. The safe system attacks gatherings of cells in the pancreas that would consistently make insulin, called islets, stopping or subsiding insulin age. Without enough insulin, glucose can't enter the cells and remains in the flow framework. A person with sort 1 diabetes should take insulin for a stunning leftover portion. Not doing in that capacity can bring about normally extending glucose levels and hazardous complexities. Type 1 Diabetes can occur at any age, despite the way that it is dynamically fundamental in adolescents and energetic adults.
Diabetes is an issue with your body that causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than run of the mill. This is furthermore called hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is the most outstanding sort of diabetes.
If you have type 2 diabetes your body doesn't use insulin really. This is called insulin opposition. From the start, your pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. Regardless, after some time it can't keep up and can't make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at run of the mill measurements.
Diabetic retinopathy is the most broadly perceived purpose behind vision disaster among people with diabetes and a primary wellspring of visual disability among working-age adults. DME is an aftereffect of diabetic retinopathy that causes expanding in the region of the retina called the macula. Diabetic retinopathy is realized by mischief to the veins in the tissue at the rear of the eye (retina). Inadequately controlled glucose is a peril factor. Early signs fuse floaters, haziness, diminish zones of vision and issue seeing shades. Visual disability can occur. Smooth cases may be treated with mindful diabetes the administrators. Impelled cases may require laser treatment or medicinal strategy.
Diabetic neuropathy is a kind of nerve hurt that can occur if you have diabetes. High (glucose) can hurt nerves all through your body. Diabetic neuropathy much of the time hurts nerves in your legs and feet. Dependent upon the affected nerves, reactions of diabetic neuropathy can go from anguish and deadness in your legs and feet to issues with your stomach related structure, urinary tract, veins and heart. A couple of individuals have smooth symptoms. However, for others, diabetic neuropathy can be exceptionally anguishing and weakening. Diabetic neuropathy is an ordinary and veritable multifaceted nature of diabetes. Be that as it may, you can as often as possible keep away from diabetic neuropathy or moderate its empowering with tight glucose control and a sound lifestyle.
There are four fundamental kinds of diabetic neuropathy they are peripheral neuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, radiculoplexus neuropathy and mononeuropathy
Diabetic nephropathy (diabetic kidney disease) is kidney hurt that results from having diabetes. Having high blood glucose levels on account of diabetes can hurt the bit of the kidneys that channels your blood. The hurt channel pushes toward turning out to be 'broke' and gives protein access to your pee. For specific people, diabetic nephropathy can progress to kidney frustration. Regardless, a considerable number of individuals with diabetes don't make kidney disorder that advances to kidney disillusionment.
Diabetic nephropathy usually has no signs at a perfect time. You can't tell that there is protein in your pee – it's something that is perceived with a pee test.
It can take various years for the kidney harm to progress. Symptoms commonly conceivably show up when kidney hurt has disintegrated basically.
- weight loss;
- a poor appetite or feeling sick;
- swollen ankles and feet (due to retaining fluid);
- puffiness around the eyes;
- dry, itchy skin;
- muscle cramps;
- needing to pass urine more often;
- feeling tired; and
- having difficulty concentrating
Pathophysiology of Endocrine Glands and Hormones
The endocrine system is a progression of organs that produce and emit hormones that the body utilizes for a wide scope of capacities. These control a wide range of substantial capacities, including:
- Respiration
- Metabolism
- Reproduction
- Sensory perception
- Movement
- Sexual development
- Growth
- Hormones are conveyed by organs and sent into the course framework to the various tissues in the body. They send signs to those tissues to uncover to them what they ought to do. Exactly when the organs don't convey the fitting proportion of hormones, sicknesses develop that can impact various pieces of life.
- A part of the components that impact endocrine organs fuse developing, certain diseases and conditions, stress, nature, and inherited characteristics.
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeries
Metabolic issue is the name for a gathering of hazard factors that raise your hazard for coronary disease and other therapeutic issues, for instance, diabetes and stroke. The articulation "metabolic" implies the biochemical strategies connected with the body's run of the mill working. Hazard factors are properties, conditions, or inclinations that extension your shot of working up a disease.
Different "metabolic" ailments and conditions are connected with genuine or dismal bulkiness including Type 2 Diabetes, hypertension, raised cholesterol, non-alcoholic oily liver disease, and obstructive rest apnea. The gastrointestinal (GI) tract and little entrail accept essential occupations in the rule of glucose levels, fat processing, and in the control of longing for and body weight. Metabolic issue can in like manner coronary illness (CHD), a condition wherein a waxy substance called plaque (plak) creates inside the coronary conductors. Plaque sets and confines the stockpile courses, reducing circulation system to your heart muscle. This can incite chest torment, coronary failure, heart harm, or even passing.
Metabolic bariatric medical procedure method can essentially improve or fix diabetes in some powerful patients including a social occasion that doesn't cautiously meet the criteria of grim chunkiness. Metabolic medicinal system can institutionalize blood glucose levels and mull over a finish of insulin treatment. Re-establishing diabetes through metabolic therapeutic system has been a stunning and welcome improvement for an ailment that has irrefutably been seen as consistent and irreversible.
Obesity is an erratic issue including an absurd proportion of muscle to fat proportion. Obesity isn't just a helpful concern. It extends your risk of diseases and therapeutic issues, for instance, coronary sickness, diabetes and hypertension. Being incredibly strong techniques you are especially inclined to have medicinal issues related to your weight. Luckily in any event, unassuming weight decrease can improve or keep the therapeutic issues related with chubbiness. Dietary changes, extended physical development and lead changes can empower you to shed pounds. Doctor suggested medications and weight decrease restorative technique are additional decisions for treating huskiness.
Obesity is examined when your weight list (BMI) is 30 or higher. Your weight record is controlled by disconnecting your weight in kilograms (kg) by your stature in meters (m) squared. For most by far, BMI gives a reasonable measure of muscle to fat proportion. Regardless, BMI doesn't clearly evaluate muscle versus fat, so a couple of individuals, for instance, solid contenders, may have a BMI in the weighty grouping notwithstanding the way that they don't have bounty muscle to fat proportion. Ask with respect to whether your BMI is an issue.
Clinical research and Case studies
A clinical preliminary is a way to deal with unequivocally test another prescription or device in patients before it is embraced by the FDA to be used in broad daylight. Clinical preliminaries are a significant and basic advance in our having the ability to have new meds for diabetes and other shifted conditions. A contextual analysis is an approach and a procedure that explores a marvel with its genuine setting. Contextual analyses and clinical preliminaries are utilized to create or evaluate the nature of the drugs being created.
Diabetic Nutrition & Physical Fitness
A diabetic eating regimen just strategies eating the most gainful sustenance's in moderate aggregates and holding fast to standard eating times. A diabetes diet is a decent counting calories game plan that is ordinarily rich in enhancements and low in fat and calories. Key parts are characteristic items, vegetables and whole grains. Without a doubt, a diabetes diet is the best eating game plan for the most part everyone.
A diabetes diet relies upon eating three dinners for each day at standard events. This causes you better use the insulin that your body makes or moves beyond a drug. An enlisted dietician can empower you to gather an eating routine reliant on your prosperity goals, tastes and lifestyle.
Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous social event of dissipates depicted by industrious hyperglycemia. The two most fundamental sorts of diabetes are type 1 diabetes (T1D, as of late known as insulin-subordinate diabetes or IDDM) and type 2 diabetes (T2D, as of known as non-insulin-subordinate diabetes or NIDDM). Both are realized by a blend of genetic and characteristic peril factors. Regardless, there are other remarkable kinds of diabetes that are really gained. These fuse maturity onset diabetes in the young (MODY), and diabetes on account of changes in mitochondrial DNA.
A wide range of diabetes impacts affects prosperity. Despite the results of surprising absorption of glucose (e.g., hyperlipidaemia, glycosylation of proteins, etc.), there are different long stretch perplexities related with the disease. These consolidate cardiovascular, periphery vascular, visual, neurologic and renal varieties from the standard, which are accountable for dreariness, inadequacy and abrupt going in energetic adults. In addition, the infection is connected with regenerative challenges causing issues for the two mothers and their children. But improved glycemic control may reduce the risk of working up these burdens; diabetes stays a critical purpose behind social, mental and budgetary loads in peoples far and wide.
Cell transplantation in Diabetes
Islets are cells found in bundle all through the pancreas. One of these is beta cells, which make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that empowers the body to use glucose for essentialness. Islet cell transplantation trades cells from an organ provider into the collection of another person. It is a test treatment for sort 1 diabetes.
In type 1 diabetes, the beta cells of the pancreas never again make insulin. A person who has type 1 Diabetes must take insulin consistently to live. Transplanted islet cells, nevertheless, can expect power over made by the crushed cells. The beta cells in these islets will begin to make and release insulin. Experts trust islet transplantation will assist people with sort 1 diabetes live without step by step insulin infusions.
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) is a cautious subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology that trains specialists in regenerative solution keeping an eye on hormonal working as per multiplication similarly as the issue of desolateness. While most REI aces basically base on the treatment of Infertility, conceptive endocrinologists are set up to similarly evaluate and treat hormonal dysfunctions in females and folks outside fruitlessness. Regenerative endocrinologists have distinguishing strength getting ready in obstetrics and gynecology (ob-gyn) before they experience sub-specialty planning (participation) in REI.
Prediabetes suggests that your glucose level is higher than common anyway not yet adequately high to be type 2 diabetes. Without lifestyle changes, people with prediabetes are in all regards inclined to progress to type 2 diabetes. In case you have prediabetes, the long stretch damage of diabetes — especially to your heart, veins and kidneys — may starting at now be starting. Prediabetes impacts adults and adolescents. A comparative lifestyle changes that can help foresee development to diabetes in adults may in like manner help take adolescents' glucose levels back to normal.
Diabetes manifestations fluctuate contingent upon how much your glucose is raised. A few people, particularly those with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, may not encounter indications at first. In sort 1 diabetes, manifestations will in general please rapidly and be increasingly serious.
A portion of the signs and side effects of sort 1 and type 2 diabetes are:
- Increased thirst
- Frequent urination
- Extreme hunger
- Unexplained weight loss
- Presence of ketones in the urine (ketones are a byproduct of the breakdown of muscle and fat that happens when there's not enough available insulin)
- Fatigue
- Irritability
- Blurred vision
- Slow-healing sores
- Frequent infections, such as gums or skin infections and vaginal infections
Type 1 diabetes can create at any age; however it regularly shows up amid youth or immaturity. Type 2 diabetes is the more typical sort, can create at any age; however it's more typical in individuals more seasoned than 40.
Public Health challenges of Diabetes
Public Health ensures and advances the soundness of the individuals where they live. General wellbeing experts mean to counteract individuals living in networks from becoming sick and make mindfulness among them to energize sound air. Inoculating kids to dodge spread of ailment, instructing them as far as hazard components and preventive measures, creating nourishing projects and so on are done by individuals in general wellbeing offices. They likewise shed light on why not many networks of individuals are more inclined to an ailment than others.
Gestational diabetes just happens in the midst of pregnancy. It suggests you have high glucose levels, anyway those measurements were common before you were pregnant. If you have it, you can at present have a sound baby with help from your master and by doing direct things to manage your glucose, also called blood glucose. After your new-born child is imagined, gestational diabetes when in doubt leaves. Gestational diabetes makes you bound to make type 2 diabetes, anyway it won't happen.
Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) is a social occasion of fluid in the macula—some part of the retina that controls our most distinct vision limits—due to spilling veins. In order to make DME, you ought to at first have diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a disease that damages the veins in the retina, realizing vision obstruction. Left untreated, these veins begin to create weight in the eye and discharge fluid, causing DME. DME generally takes on two structures
- Focal DME, which happens in light of variations from the norm in the veins in the eye.
- Diffuse DME, which happens due to augmenting/swelling retinal vessels (extremely meager veins).
Diabetic Retinopathy and DME are regular issues for diabetics. Generally 8% of the U.S. populace is diabetic, and about 28% of those diabetics have eye inconvenience as a result of it. Frequently, DME is related with:
- those who have had diabetes for an extended amount of time,
- serious hypertension (high blood pressure),
- fluid retention,
- hypoalbuminemia (low levels of protein in body fluids),
- and hyperlipidemia (high levels of fats in the blood)
Thyroid issue are conditions that impact the thyroid organ, a butterfly-formed organ in the front of the neck. The thyroid has basic occupations to oversee different metabolic methodology all through the body. Different sorts of thyroid issue impact either its structure or limit.
The thyroid organ is arranged underneath the Adam's apple collapsed over the trachea (windpipe). A slight zone of tissue in the organs inside, known as the isthmus joins the two thyroid folds on each side. The thyroid uses iodine to convey vital hormones. Thyroxin, generally called T4, is the basic hormone made by the organ. After transport by methods for the circulatory framework to the body's tissues, a little piece of the T4 released from the organ is changed over to triiodothyronine (T3), which is the most unique hormone.
The limit of the thyroid organ is constrained by an info segment including the cerebrum. Right when thyroid hormone levels are low, the operational hub in the mind conveys a hormone known as thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) that causes the pituitary organ (arranged at the base of the cerebrum) to release thyroid stimulaating hormone (TSH). TSH animates the thyroid organ to release more T4.
Since the thyroid organ is obliged by the pituitary organ and operational hub, issue of these tissues can similarly impact thyroid limit and cause thyroid issues.
Nanotechnology for diabetes treatment
Nanotechnology is extending hugeness in diabetics' investigation in the continuous decade. It is a field that incorporates nanomaterials, nanostructures, nanoparticle structure and their applications in individuals, etc. It in like manner gives dynamically exact information to diagnosing diabetes mellitus. Nanotechnology has overhauled sedate transport to those zones which were unfavorable for macromolecules. It is advancing new implantable identifying headways as such giving exact helpful information. The blend of nanotechnology and drug has made another field "nanomedicine" to improve human social protection. A segment of the employments of nanotechnology in treating diabetes mellitus are phony pancreas, as opposed to pancreas transplantation use of fake beta cells, for oral transport of insulin use of nanospheres as biodegradable polymeric bearers, etc. In this assessment, usages of nanotechnology in treating diabetes mellitus are discussed.
The endocrine framework is a game plan of organs that pass on and discharge hormones that help control different basic body limits, including the body's capacity to change calories into centrality that forces cells and organs. The endocrine framework impacts how your heart throbs, how your bones and tissues grow, even your capacity to make an infant kid. It expect an imperative part in paying little notice to whether you make diabetes, thyroid malady, progression issue, sexual brokenness, and a huge social event of other hormone-related disperses.
The hormonal system (called the endocrine structure in medical terminology) has various organs that release differing hormones. It's the way by which one bit of the body (the organ) tells another bit of the body (the goal cell) to achieve something indispensable. The endocrine organs sway multiplication, absorption, improvement and various limits.
Coming up next is a summary of the rule organs (see diagram for their zone), a part of the hormones they produce and what impacts they have on the body.
- Hypothalamus
- Pituitary gland
- Pineal gland
- Thyroid gland
- Parathyroid gland
- Adrenal glands
- Pancreas
- Ovaries (females only)
- Testes (males only)
Endocrine cancers growths are those found in tissues of the endocrine framework, which incorporates the thyroid, adrenal, pancreas, parathyroid, and pituitary organs.
Pediatric endocrinology (British: Pediatric) is a remedial subspecialty overseeing disarranges of the endocrine organs, for instance, assortments of physical advancement and sexual improvement in youth, diabetes and some more.
By age, pediatric endocrinologists, dependent upon the age extent of the patients they treat, care for patients from most punctual stages to late pre-adulthood and energetic adulthood.
The most broadly perceived illness of the forte is type 1 diabetes, which generally speaking speaks to at any rate half of an ordinary clinical practice. The accompanying most normal issue is advancement issue, especially those genial to improvement hormone treatment. Pediatric endocrinologists are commonly the fundamental specialists related with the remedial thought of children and adolescents with intersex issue. The strength in like manner oversees hypoglycemia and various kinds of hyperglycemia in youth, assortments of pubescence, additionally other adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary issues. Various pediatric endocrinologists have interests and fitness in bone digestion, lipid digestion, pre-adult gynecology, or intrinsic mistakes of digestion.
Market Research
As per the studies conducted recently, there are more than twenty-seven million diabetes patients within the U.S.A., thus world’s third largest country in terms of diabetes patients in 2018. The major reasons behind these prevailing cases of diabetes is the rise of obesity levels associated with the increasing aging population. It's been found in the studies conducted that over half the U.S.A. population is either obese or overweight that is especially because of their inactive lifestyles, physical inactivities and unhealthy consumption habits. Moreover, the aging population within the U.S.A. has been on the increase since the 1960’s. individuals aged sixty five years and on top of accounted for around 11th of September of the overall population in 1960 whereas in 2018, this cohort accounted for around 15 August 1945 of the whole U.S.A. population. Driven by rising incidences of polygenic disorder and therefore the incontrovertible fact that the U.S.A. has one amongst the very best per capita tending expenditures, the U.S.A. marketplace for polygenic disorder medication has grownup at a CAGR of around eleven.8% throughout 2011-2018, reaching a price of US$ forty five.4 Billion in 2018.
Diabetes has increasingly become a lifestyle related disease as it afflicts young and old. As the number of patients grow across the globe, there has never been a stronger and more urgent need for novel therapeutic measures in clinical and preclinical evaluation, that arrest the growth of the disease. The diabetes market, consisting mainly of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is large and growing significantly. Global diabetes market is expected to grow at CAGR of 7.6% for the forecasted period of 2018-2023.the market is segmented on the basis of type of diabetes, drugs class and diabetic devices. Diabetic drugs have the highest market share amongst drugs and devices and are also expected to have the highest growth rate with a CAGR of 8.9% . some of the top selling diabetic drugs include Lantus(sanofi), Januvia(Merck and Co), Humalog(Eli Lily And Co),Novo rapid(Novo Nordisk),Levemir(Novo Nordisk),Victoza(Novo Nordisk),Janumet(Merck And Co),Novolog(Novo Nordisk),Humalin (Eli Lily And Co) and Galvus (Novartis).with the diabetic population expected to cross the 350 million market by 2030 the market is expected to show strong growth rate. Diabetic drugs are highly priced which could be one of the major drawbacks.
Diabetes drug research market in Europe is expected to progress with a 5.08% CAGR over the forecast years of 2018-2026. It is the second largest market for diabetes drugs. High blood glucose kills about 3.4 million people annually worldwide. Approximately 80% of these deaths take place in underdeveloped and developing countries, and almost half are people aged less than 70 years. As per recent research in WHO diabetic deaths will double between 2005 and 2030. India had 69.2 million people living with diabetes (8.7%) in 2015. About 90% of the patients are suffering from Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research Market is expected to grow at the average CAGR of 6.5% time period of 2016-2023. India’s Diabetes Market is growing rapidly. India is expected to grow US$ 7441.6 million by 2023 from US$ 4778.7 million in 2016. The data varies from $263 billion spent in North America to $147 billion in Europe and Northern Asia. Followed by China, Mongolia, South East Asia and Oceania with a total of $88 billion.
Societies Associated with Diabetes Research:
- SBDR - Society for Biomedical Diabetes Research
- Austrian Diabetes Association
- Flemish Diabetes Association
- Association of Juvenile Diabetes
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Chile
- German Diabetes Union
- Diabetic Society of Singapore
- Japan Diabetes Society
- Hong Kong Diabetes Federation
- The International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology
- Royal Society of Medicine Endocrinology and Diabetes Section
- International Society of Psych neuroendocrinology
- International Neuroendocrine Federation
- European Society of Endocrinology
- Clinical Endocrinology Trust
- Swiss Diabetes Society
- Spanish Diabetes Society
- Korean Diabetes Association
Diabetic Research Centers World wide:
- University of Michigan Albert Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Center
- Boston Area
- Columbia University
- Indiana University
- Johns Hopkins University/University of Maryland
- Joslin Diabetes Center - Harvard Medical School
- Stanford University
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- UCSD-UCLA
- UCSF
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Washington
- Washington University
- Vanderbilt University
- Yale University
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Emory University
- Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado
- International Diabetes Federation, UAE
- Public Health Research Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, UAE
- Global Diabetes Research Centre, India.
- Diabetes Research Center, PUMCH, China
- Center for Diabetes & Endocrinology, Japan
- Leicester Diabetes Centre, United Kingdom
- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
- Persatuan Diabetes Indonesia Research Centre
- Mayo Clinic – Rochester, MN
- Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland, OH
- Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, MA
- Johns Hopkins Hospital – Baltimore, MD
- UCSF Medical Center – San Francisco, CA
- New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell – New York, NY
- Yale-New Haven Hospital – New Haven, CT
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital – Chicago, IL
- UCLA Medical Center – Los Angeles, CA
- University of Washington Medical Center – Seattle, WA
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian – Philadelphia, PA
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Boston, MA
- Florida Hospital Orlando – Orlando, FL
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – Los Angeles, CA
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University – St. Louis, MO
- Beaumont Hospital – Grosse Pointe, MI
- Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, NY
- Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI
- Lancaster General Hospital – Lancaster, PA
- University of Kansas Hospital – Kansas City, KS
- KEM Hospital, Pune
- Lakeshore Hospital & Research Center, Kochi
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi
- M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, Chennai
- St Vincent's Hospital Sydney
- The Australian Centre for Behavioral Research in Diabetes.
- Mahkota Diabetes Centre, Indonesia
- Newcastle Hospitals, UK
- Parkmore Medical Centre, South Africa
- Degla Diabetic Center, Egypt
- Diabetes & Metabolism Centre, Singapore
