3rd May 2024 - Sydney Health Partners Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group (DO-CAG) "Next Steps" Virtual Online Meeting

You are cordially invited by DO-CAG chairs Professor Louise Baur, Professor Stephen Twigg as well as coordinator Stephanie Noonan.

The Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group (DO-CAG) is holding a 2-HOUR Virtual (online) “Next Steps” meeting co-chaired by Professors Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur. The session will emphasise research idea generation AND mentorship/ support for Early Mid-Career Researchers/ Clinicians. 

Zoom link with no password required is https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/8...

The meeting will aim to be recorded and have members that represent all Sydney Health Partners across i.e. Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (Westmead campus), Sydney Local Health District, The University of Sydney and Western Sydney Local Health District.

Don't miss out on this unique and exciting opportunity to network, learn, and collaborate with leading professionals in the field.

Order of nearly finalised program below:

Time	Facilitator	Activity	Speaker(s)
1400-1410	Prof Stephen Twigg	Acknowledgement of country, welcome, introductions, housekeeping, overview of the day, SHP and DO-CAG	Prof Stephen Twigg
1410-1430	Prof Louise Baur	Capacity Building, Translating Mentorship, Support/Networking/Training for EMC clinicians/researchers /Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI)	Prof Louise Baur Ms Sharon Kitt
1430-1555	Prof Louise Baur	Prediabetes rapid-fire presentations from senior and early & mid-career researchers and clinicians supported by individual(s) with consumer/lived experience background	Prof Louise Baur
1430-1440	Prediabetes and Databases	Prediabetes with focus on community data -prevalence and incidence - past, present and future	Prof Glen Maberly
		Prediabetes with focus on service delivery data capture – federal, state, LHD options	A/Prof Eugen Molodysky
		Overview of the PREVIEW study: past achievements and ongoing efforts	Dr Yanfei (Jacob) Qi
1445-1500	Profs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur	15 minute Q + A plus Finalising Next steps: Generating an operational strategy/identifying co-leads for Prediabetes and Database projects	DO-CAG chairs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur
1500-1515	Prediabetes and Community Awareness	Obesity/Prediabetes and general community awareness	Mr Andrew Wilson (Consumer)
		Prediabetes, DA and SPHERE	Prof Freya MacMillan
		GDM and Prediabetes	Prof Jencia Wong
		Supporting General Practices in Managing Pre-Diabetes and Obesity	Ms Sally Inglis
1515-1525	Profs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur	10-15 minute Q + A plus Finalising Next steps: Generating an operational strategy/identifying co-leads for Prediabetes and Community Awareness projects	DO-CAG chairs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur
1525-1540	Embedding Prediabetes Models of Care	A broad community perspective on prediabetes and implementation (the SLHD experience)	Prof Stephen Twigg (representing Prof Stephen Colagiuri)
		Very low energy diets (VLEDs) in adolescents with obesity or T2DM	Prof Louise Baur
		Nepean Metabolic Health Model of care and implementation	Dr Kathryn Williams
		RPAH Healthone Green Square opportunities, virtual/Online and Apps	Dr Sarah Parry
1540-1555	Profs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur	15 minute Q + A plus Finalising Next steps: Generating an operational strategy/identifying co-leads for Embedding Prediabetes Models of Care projects	DO-CAG chairs Stephen Twigg and Louise Baur
		Break and stretch legs
1555-1600	Prof Stephen Twigg	Wrap-up, future plans, Further questions	Prof Stephen Twigg

What is Sydney Health Partners?

• An Advanced Health Research Translation Centre that has partnered with the University of Sydney, its affiliated Local Health Districts and 11 medical research institutes to improve local capacity and capability for clinical translational research.
• At the end of 2023, SHP funded eleven Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs) that are each united around a single clinical problem or patient group i.e. Cardiovascular, Geriatric Medicine, Perioperative Care of Surgical Patients, Sydney Cancer Partners, Sydney Musculoskeletal, Child and Adolescent Health, Diabetes and Obesity, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Reproductive/Maternal/Newborn Health, Sleep Health and Virtual Care CAGs.
• CAGs are multidisciplinary teams focussed on building capacity and capability, ensuring community and consumer involvement in research, fostering collaboration and improving impact and competitiveness in research translation. Research translation bridges the gap between knowledge gained through research and its application in policy and practice.
• More information on Research Translation vs Translational Research is available on the SHP website.

Who is the Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group?

• One of the Sydney Health Partners Clinical Academic Groups
• >130 members across – listed Sydney LHDs and USyd - covering many areas of clinical, public health, lived experience and research expertise relevant to diabetes and obesity across the life-course
• To sign up for free membership, which includes receiving our newsletters, please go to: https://sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQY2EuT9nbOVc3A

Our aims:

• To bridge the gap between clinicians, academics and consumers and to deliver health outcomes of people with diabetes and obesity, across the life-course, through enabling high quality multidisciplinary research that is translatable back to clinical practice
• To mentor early and mid-career researchers
• To grow our network of translational and clinician researchers
• To improve the competitiveness and impact of our translational research
• To build long-lasting collaborations with our partners and stakeholders

What do we do?

• Recruiting and surveying members about what they would like from the Diabetes & Obesity Clinical Academic Group
• Holding showcases, webinars, and workshops and incubator sessions for idea generation and peer review
• Reaching out to our partners and stakeholders to collaborate with research and on prioritisation of strategies

Leadership team

• The co-chairs are Professor's Stephen Twigg (SLHD and USYD) and Louise Baur (SCHN and USyd), with Project Officer, Ms Stephanie Noonan
• The full list of the Leadership Group is at Diabetes and Obesity » Sydney Health Partners

We want to be of service to our members and to have impact. Hence the need for broad membership and engagement especially of early and mid-career clinician leaders and researchers, as well as of people with lived experience.

Thank you for contributing to today’s meeting (as well as to our most welcome launch in November 2023 and Half-Day Strategy Planning in February 2024), which brings together key partners and stakeholders that continues to inform development of further DO-CAG planning.