Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last month I attended the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World Congress in Melbourne. This was the largest diabetes conference ever held in Australia -- with over 10,000 clinicians, researchers, industry representatives and patients from 140 countries. And I felt a change in the air.
I sense this small, global, Belgium-based 40-staff member association that represents more than 200 member countries is outfitting itself to put speed and muscle behind halting diabetes' ravage around the world.
From the formation of its "Young Leaders in Diabetes" (YLD) Programme to the hiring of its new CEO and president -- both with decades experience in health care (yet outside of medicine, in technology and politics, respectively) -- there seems a stronger focus on strategic leadership and more clear-cut goals to achieve.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riva-greenberg/diabetes_b_4641169.html
I sense this small, global, Belgium-based 40-staff member association that represents more than 200 member countries is outfitting itself to put speed and muscle behind halting diabetes' ravage around the world.
From the formation of its "Young Leaders in Diabetes" (YLD) Programme to the hiring of its new CEO and president -- both with decades experience in health care (yet outside of medicine, in technology and politics, respectively) -- there seems a stronger focus on strategic leadership and more clear-cut goals to achieve.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riva-greenberg/diabetes_b_4641169.html