Dr Steven Miller, Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes at North Shore Hospital, Auckland will discuss type II diabetes in young people in NZ, focusing on the following topics:
- Diagnosis in young people: what are we doing well, what could we improve?
- How should we approach young people at high-risk, or those with pre-diabetes?
- Management: what works well? How we can improve?
- Complications – prevalence and screening/management.
- Long-term outcomes for this population.
- Case examples of new diagnose, starting insulin, and managing poorly compliant patients.
Resources
- Enough of the problem: a review of time for health care transition solutions for young adults with a chronic illness JCN (2010)
- Complications are more common in young people with type 2 diabetes than type 1 BMJ (2017)
- Managing patients with type 2 diabetes: from lifestyle to insulin BPAC (2015)
Presenter
Dr Steven Miller
Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes
Dr Steven Miller completed a intercalated BSc(Hons) in Genetics before being awarded MBChB with Commendation in 1999 at the University of Glasgow. He was awarded a PhD for diabetes research in 2007. After completing a 1 year Fellowship at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research and St Vincents Hospital, Sydney Dr Miller moved to New Zealand in 2010. He is now a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology and Diabetes, and General (Internal) Medicine and is based at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, and Waitemata Endocrinology.
