Professional Conference Award Winners 2024

Diabetes UK Primary Care Poster Award

P305 - Dr Clare Hambling on behalf of Protect-NoW, J Brown, S Brown, C Hamlet, R Jakeman, A LeGrys, J Moule, S Weston, S Haney

'Protect-now digital weight management: A primary care collaborative model enhancing equitable access to the NHS Digital Weight Management Programme (DWMP) through a population health management approach'

Diabetes UK Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professional Diabetes Research Award

P151 - A Bolou, D Lanz, Z Drymoussi, A Wright, A Mehay, A Harden, A Sanghi, GA Hitman, SBM Huda, S Thangaratinam

'Mediterranean diet in the postnatal period to prevent type 2 diabetes in women with gestational diabetes: A UK mixed method single-arm feasibility study (MERIT)'

Diabetes UK Psychological Care Poster Award

Winner: P276 - M Ladwa, M Moorthy, R Sudra, L Fuller, S Saroya, C Alonso Soriano, S Jambani

'Diabetes-associated distress in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with type 2 diabetes'

Runner-up: P281 - M Due-Christensen,  R El-Hakim, E Romancsuk, J Lindberg Wad, A Forbes

'Psychosocial support for adults with new onset type 1 diabetes: Experiences of participating in the living with and adapting to diabetes programme (ladder)'

Diabetes UK Paediatric Diabetes Award

P161 - D Kariyawasam, A Forbes, C Glen, R Forde, T Soukup, F Fiorentino, K Ismail, S Pender, N Sevdalis, J Parsons

'Feasibility study and process evaluation of a psychosocially modelled diabetes education programme for young people with type 1 diabetes: The Youth Empowerment Skills (YES) programme'

Diabetes UK Basic Science Poster Award

Winner: P90 - C Lekka, J Hopkinson, J Hill, S Fatoumata, J Perez-Hernandez, C Flaxman, R Mallone, NG Morgan, SJ Richardson

'Differential expression of classical HLA-I and induction of non-classical HLA-I in type 1 diabetes'

Runner-up: P7 - PCA Phillips, CL Cliff, JK Ward, U Mouritzen, PE Squires, CE Hills

'The connexin-43 (Cx43) channel modifier Danegaptide prevents changes associated with cell senescence in an in vitro model of diabetic nephropathy' 

Diabetes UK Clinical Science Poster Award

Winner: P100 - LM Guedemann, JM Dennis, C Angwin, RR Holman, N Sattar, ER Pearson, AT Hattersley, BM Shields, AG Jones

'Using crossover trial data to test the proposed five diabetes subgroups from cluster analysis for targeting treatment'

Runner-up: P65 - JJC Thomas, P Divilly, G Maxine-Edith, SA Amiel, P Choudhary, on behalf of the HypoMETRICS Consortium

'Evaluating heart rate responses to asymptomatic hypoglycaemia in the hypoMETRICS study'

Diabetes UK Early Career Investigator Award

Winner: A47 - TG Hill, R Gao, H Dou, C Miranda, C Guida, LJB Briant, A Clark, Q Zhang, P Rorsman

'Loss of electrical beta to delta cell gap junctional coupling in pancreatic islets leads to impaired hypoglycaemia-induced glucagon secretion'

Runner-up: A51 - KG Young, R Hopkins, JM Dennis, N Qureshi, AG Jones, BM Shields

'Misclassification matters: Individuals with misclassified type 1 diabetes can be identified in UK primary care data and are at increased risk of hypoglycaemia and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)'

Diabetes UK Young People’s Diabetes Service Award

P177 - T Abi Chahine, A Forbes, L Goff, K F Hunt, D Kariyawasam, R Myers Ingram, E Omari, R Thistlethwayte, J Parsons

'Co-designing an educational support programme for young adults with type 2 diabetes: Type 2 Take 2'

Young Diabetologists and Endocrinologists Forum Travel Award

Joint Winners:

A25 - NJM Thomas, A Hill, D Fraser, TJ McDonald, R Nice, AE Long, KM Gillespie, RA Oram

'Pre-symptomatic adult type 1 diabetes case detection: Type 1 diabetes genetic risk guided islet autoantibody screening in a general population'

A27 - TSJ Crabtree, TP Griffin, P Narendran, MA Karamat, G Gallen, AL Liarakos, A Lumb, REJ Ryder, P Choudhary, EG Wilmot

'Factors predicting achievement of recommend time-in- range and HbA1c at 12 months post-commencement amongst closed loop users with elevated baseline HbA1c levels'

Runner-up: A28 - LM Quinn, J Elliott, F Zakia, C Burt, J Garstang, D Shukla, SM Greenfield, A Richter, RP Dias, P Narendran

'Screening children for paediatric diabetes (the ELSA study): Accessing underserved communities'

Diabetes UK Education and Self-management Award

A52 - R Churm, A Reynolds, B Bone, J Pitt, D Flint, R Hamilton, A Tan, R Bracken

'Ameliorating type 2 diabetes risk through a walking and touch rugby programme in overweight males'

Runner-up: A53 - AC Cooper, AC Cowie, HMZ Ullah, J Klepacki, B MacDonald, L Browne, L Grant, J Dymott, S McGeoch

'A successful step for our service: HbA1c results at 12 months for patients going through the Scottish Type 1 Education Programme (STEP)'