Date and Time

Saturday, September 10, 2005, 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM

place

Hotel Granvia Osaka, 20th floor "Peacock Room"

Duty caretaker

Dr. Jun Minamikawa of Minamikawa Clinic
Dr. Hiroyuki Koshiyama, Director of the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Kitano Hospital

Mini-Lecture

Chair: Dr. Jun Minamikawa, Director of Minamikawa Clinic
"Is Type 2 Diabetes a Progressive Disease? A Paradigm Shift in Insulin Treatment"
Kitano Hospital, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute
Dr. Hiroyuki Koshiyama, Director of the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology

special lecture

"Molecular mechanisms of sulfonylurea drug action"
Professor Nobuya Inagaki, Department of Diabetes and Nutrition, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

Closing Remarks

Director of Kansai Electric Power Hospital
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Yutaka Seino, Chairman of the Japan Diabetes Association