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PG course in diabetology

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI SEPT. 21. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) on Friday began a three-day post-graduate course here on `Diabetes Care in the New Millennium' for more than 850 doctors and medical students from all over the country.

This was the first time that the faculty of the American-based diabetes health care and research association was conducting a course outside the USA, said the president of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), V. Mohan. The MDRF, in association with the ADA, organised the course--the `MDRF-ADA Post Graduate Course in Diabetology'.

Dr. V. Mohan said the ADA chose to conduct the course in India as, according to a WHO projection, the country was slated to be the diabetes capital of the world by 2010 and would have 57 million diabetics by 2025.

India already had the most diabetes cases in the world and had 32.7 million diabetics in 2000.

The president of the ADA, Francine R. Kaufman, unveiled a plaque dedicating the Dr Jerome Markovitz Laboratory for Atherosclerosis in MDRF to the memory of former associate professor of medicine in the University of Alabama, Jerome Markovitz, who expired early this month.

The vice-consul at the American Consulate, Frank Wierichs, president of the ADA-health care and education, Martha M.Funnell, the chief scientific and medical officer of the ADA, Richard Kahn, and the vice-president of the MDRF, Rema Mohan, participated in the inauguration of the course.

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