The upcoming Indo-UK Diabetes Summit scheduled for January 18-19, 2013 in Chennai is set to be the largest bilateral healthcare event ever staged between the two countries.
According to Dr Rajgopal Mani, Consultant in Clinical Sciences, Southampton University, the Summit will bring together advances as well as in depth experience in healthcare, academic and industry sectors as applicable to management of diabetes and its complications in both countries, the United Kingdom (UK) and India. Secondly, it offers a rare opportunity for colleagues to assimilate, to present and to discuss in sessions as well as in small groups; colleagues from all sectors will have occasion to meet with those serving in similar and other sectors.
The event is designed to engage healthcare professionals at every facet of the industry. Dr Mani explains that researchers are offered a chance to participate in seminars/ discussions gaining specific knowledge and information while for workers from healthcare sectors in both primary (community) and secondary (hospital) and university settings, it will be a platform to exchange information, interact to explore partnership possibilities.
For instance, Dr Mani, who is Head of Clinical Measurements and Honorary Senior Lecturer Lead for Research and Innovation in Medical Physics and Bioengineering, and is developing a joint wound healing laboratory with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will be reviewing the role of technology applicable to wound healing.
In Southampton, Dr Mani developed the vascular laboratory and applied some of the techniques to diagnostic care as well as research. His research group, nested in the Human Disease & Health Division led by Professor Mark Hanson, is committed to wound repair through prevention and regeneration.
EH News Bureau
