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The International Diabetes Federation World Diabetes Congress 2015
1Programme Committee Chair of the World Diabetes Congress 2015.
Abstract:
Bernard Zinman, Programme Committee Chair of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World Diabetes Congress 2015, talks about the scientific programme highlights, the experience of attending the Congress and his involvement in diabetes care and research. Bernard Zinman is Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes and holds the Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes Research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
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