Report of the International Conference on Diabetes and Obesity

Since the establishment of the EMRC, diabetes research and education has been one of the major priorities of the center. The EMRC organizes annual congresses in the field of endocrinology and this year’s congress was the International Conference on Diabetes and Obesity, in collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). The aim of this educational conference was to provide an update in the field of diabetes and obesity by several national, and international, experts. This conference was organized with the help of Abbas Kitabchi, MD, University of Tennessee (TN, USA). Several distinguished speakers from the IDF & World Health Organization (WHO) including: Pierre Lefebvre (IDF President), Samed Shera (IDF Honorary President), Arab Morsi (Middle East IDF Regional president) and Oussama Khatib (Regional Advisor, non-Communicable Diseases EMRO, WHO) were invited to the meeting. There were also 36 other speakers who participated in the conference. The Conference took place at Imam Khomeini Hospital, which is one of the main hospitals of Tehran and has a beautiful and historic architecture.