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If you have trouble reading use zoom on your tool bar 😎 This is big time stuff ! I am not a comp expert & don't know how to download posters to the right size etc. 😎
Inaugural Open Meeting
21st February 2015
Institute of Transplantation Freeman Hospital
9.00am: Registration and coffee
9.30am: Prevention of dangerous hypoglycaemia: education, innovation and transplantation
James Shaw
10.00am: Setting up an islet isolation laboratory for research and clinical cell therapy
Minna Honkanen
10.30am: Coffee Break
11.00am: Protecting pancreatic beta-cells in type 2 diabetes Sarah Armour
11.10am: Beta-cell stress in islet transplantation
Scott Anderson
11.20am: Maintaining healthy islets from organ donation to engraftment Helen Marshall
11.30am: The nucDIABETES charity
11.40am: Meet the team and view our posters
Thank you "Northy" 🙂 My kids are miles better than me at computers. 😉 This is about as important as it gets. You will have a full report from me if you cant make it but I know anyone that goes will be pleased at the wonderful work going on in the "North East"
Northy its not very often this happens but this is "WORLD CLASS" stuff. I think the whole world have heard of the "Freeman Hosp".. My mate is one of the oldest Heart transplant patients in the country & guess where he got that done 😎 He is T2 & when he was 73 he asked me how to take a M/Bike test. I gave him a disc for his comp & a week later there was a brand new Honda 125cc on his drive. Would you be up for that ? At 73 ?
I'm going to see if I can combine attending the morning with visiting friends. I was working in the Freeman heart transplant unit the evening the land war of the First Gulf War started. So, somewhat surreally, the patients sent out for pizza, and staff popped in and out of TV room to see events develop - and have the odd bite of pizza.
Hope you can make it. There is something magical about the Freeman 😎 My son was 3 & he caught Pneumonia. ! 1x lung full & other 3/4 😱 Blue lights up there & in for 6 weeks. He has RAN for Duk at 3 JGNorth run & They are Brilliant Drs & staff in there 🙂
A very good & positive set of talks by some brilliant & committed Drs 😎 My head is still full of info about Islets & keeping them alive & kicking. There was a good turnout of interested people/patients & parents. I can see a big future in the work they are doing so they NEED some support. Watch this space pls 😎