About International Symposium on Diabetes
"Revolutionalising diabetes care through cutting edge research, technology and making India the Diabetes Care Capital of the world."
On behalf of the Organising Committee, Mumbai once again welcomes all the delagates to the latest update in Diabetes, Metabolism, Weight Management and other burning issues in the field of Diabetology and Metabolism. Each year, thousands of experts from the field of endocrinology convene to collaborate, learn and earn CME, through a combination of state-of-the- art-lectures, advanced learning experiences, engaging sessions, expert panel discussions, abstracts and more.

Who Attends?

The meeting is structured to provide relevant, practical and immediate application of clinical education for endocrinologists, fellows, primary care physicians, physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, diabetes care and education specialists, clinical pharmacists, registered dietitians, and others in the endocrine care team. With a wide array of educational offerings and connection building opportunities attendees can select to attend the sessions that are most relevant to their practice.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the meeting, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the latest scientific and clinical discoveries in the field of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.
  • Apply newfound knowledge to the diagnosis and management of patients with disorders of endocrinology, diabetes, or metabolism for improved patient outcomes.
  • Assess the potential applications of emerging scientific advances that affect the practice of endocrinology.
  • Explain to your patients the latest clinical treatment options in endocrine health.

Conference Topics

  • Diabetes and Diabetes Technology
  • Bone and Parathyroid
  • Thyroid and Thyroid Procedures
  • Cardiometabolic and Lipids Management
  • Nutrition and Obesity
  • Pituitary, Adrenal, Gonad, and Neuroendocrine

WIDF Awards

The 23rd Annual International Symposium on Diabetes (IDSI | Home) will be held January 6-7, 2024 in Mumbai.

As a previous recipient of the award, I request you to nominate one or two people for outstanding investigator award and for innovation award that we can submit to a three-member International committee (Professors Chris Adams, MD, Mayo Clinic; Rocco Barazzoni, M.D., Ph.D, University of Trieste, and Michael Roden, German Diabetes Center, Dusserdorf, Germany).

The committee will select the awardees as we have done in the previous years.

As you may know, just like many other awards, repeated several submissions are usual, please do not hesitate to nominate someone who did not receive an award in the previous years if you think they are deserving.

I would also appreciate if you can collect a CV from the nominee or request the nominee to send a CV to us directly to Melissa Aakre aakre.melissa@mayo.eduDeadline is Tuesday, December 12.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With best wishes, K. Sreekumaran Nair, M.D., Ph.D. President, Scientific, World-India Diabetes Foundation Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition Dr. Richard F. Emslander Professorship in Endocrinology and Nutrition Research Distinguished Investigator, Mayo Clinic Melissa Aakre Coordinator, World-India Diabetes Foundation 200 First Street SW, Joseph 5-194 Rochester, MN 55905 Phone: 507-255-2415, Fax: 507-255-4828 aakre.melissa@mayo.edu

WIDF OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Recipients

2023 Dr. S. V. Madhu

2022 *Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, Head & Chief Diabetologist, MV Hospital for Diabetes (*co-recipients)

*Professor Sanjay Bhadada, HOD, Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh

2021 Professor Ambrish Mithal

2020 Professor Satinath Mukhopadhyay

2019 Professor Anil Bhansali

2018 Professor Nihal Thomas

2017 Professor Nikhil Tandon

2016 Professor Chittaranjan Sakerlal Yajnik

2013 Professor Anoop Misra

2012 Professor V. Mohan

2011 Professor A. Ramachandran

WIDF APPLIED INNOVATION AWARD Recipients

2023 Dr. Aaron Chapla

2020 R. M. Anjana, M.D.,Ph.D.

2019 Naval Kishore Vikram, M.D., MNAMS

2017 Manik Pradhan, Ph.D.

Prof. Dr. Shashank R Joshi
Organizing Chairman