Epidemiology and Genetics of Diabetes and Diabetic complications: Insights from the Hong Kong Diabetes Register

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Human Genomics and Metagenomics in Metabolism, invites you to this lecture.

By Prof. Ronald Ching Wan MA.
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Head, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes.
Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The main scientific interests of Prof. MA are:

• Epidemiology of diabetes: Identification of novel risk factors for diabetes and diabetes-related co-morbidities, characteristics of diabetes in Asians, epidemiology of diabetes in Asia, role of early development on risk of diabetes and obesity.
• Genetics of diabetes and diabetic complications: Identification of novel genetic variants associated with diabetes and diabetic complications, risk prediction, application of clinical and genetic predictors for personalized medicine in diabetes, epigenetics in diabetes.
• Gestational diabetes and intra-uterine programming, epigenetics: Elucidation of the impact of gestational diabetes and maternal environment on risk of diabetes and obesity in the offspring, role of gestational diabetes in relation to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases, mechanism of transgenerational diabetes.
• Polycystic ovary syndrome: Epidemiology of polycystic ovary syndrome and related complications, relationship to young-onset type 2 diabetes, epigenetic factors, role of insulin resistance and treatment.

The presentation and publication list.

Time: December 14 2018, 11.00-12.00 hrs
Venue: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Holst Auditorium