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Diabetes congress diary
Date
Conference
Venue
Contact details to register
APRIL 2012
19–22 April
SEMDSA/NOFSA 2012 Congress
Bantry Bay, South Africa
20–22 April
Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes
Birmingham, UK
21 April
Pain Symposium 2012
Houghton, Johannesburg,
South Africa
MAY 2012
5–9 May
European Congress of Endocrinology
Florence, Italy
9–12 May
19th European Congress on Obesity
Lyon, France
24–27 May 27th Annual Clinical Conference on Diabetes
Florida, USA
JUNE 2012
8–12 June
72nd American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions
Pennsylvania, USA
JULY 2012
9–12 July
The 3rd International Congress on Abnormal Obesity (ICAO)
Quebec City, Canada
Icao2012.myhealthwaist.org
24–26 July CDE Centres for Diabetes and Endocrinology
Johannesburg, South Africa
25–28 July 1st African Diabetes Congress
Arusha, Tanzania
OCTOBER 2012
1–5 October
48th EASD Annual Meeting
Berlin, Germany
10–13 October ISPAD 2012 – 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for
Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes
Istanbul, Turkey
20–22 October 8th Asian Pacific Society of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Disease
Phuket, Thailand
DECEMBER 2012
4–6 December 1st American Diabetes Association Middle East Congress: Diabetes
Prevention and Treatment
Dubai, UAE
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