ATTD 2011 Year Book – Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes

Prof. Moshe Phillip, Director, The Jesse Z. and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. Vice Dean for Research and Development, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Dr. Tadej Battelino, Head of Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University Children's Hospital, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tadej Battelino is professor of pediatrics at the Ljubljana Medical Faculty, and head of pediatric endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University Children's Hospital Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has participated as principal investigator in the CPT trial sponsored by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and is involved in many other international clinical and basic research projects. He has published more than 180 papers, of which 51 are published in SCI listed international journals, and is a member of many international societies, including ESPE, EASD, ISPAD. He has been an invited lecturer in Vienna and Tel Aviv Universities, and at many international meetings and symposia.

List of Contributors, vii Preface, xvii 1 Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose, 1 Satish K. Garg and Irl B. Hirsch 2 Continuous Glucose Monitoring in 2011, 21 Tadej Battelino and Bruce W. Bode 3 Insulin Pumps, 42 John C. Pickup 4 Closing the Loop, 56 Eyal Dassau, Christian Lowe, Cameron Barr, Eran Atlas and Moshe Phillip 5 New Insulins and Insulin Therapy, 83 Thomas Danne and Jan Bolinder 6 New Ways of Insulin Delivery, 96 Lutz Heinemann 7 Using Health Information Technology to Prevent and Treat Diabetes, 109 Neal Kaufman 8 Technology and Pregnancy, 136 Lois Jovanovic, Nicole A. Sitkin, Jennifer K. Beckerman and Moshe Hod 9 Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Immune Intervention, 157 Jay S. Skyler 10 Advances in Exercise, Physical Activity and Diabetes Mellitus, 174 Howard Zisser, Mark Sueyoshi, Kelsey Krigstein, Andrei Szigiato and Michael C. Riddell 11 Diabetes Technology and Treatment in the Paediatric Age Group, 203 Shlomit Shalitin and H. Peter Chase 12 Diabetes Technology and the Human Factor, 225 Alon Liberman, Bruce Buckingham and Moshe Phillip 13 New Medications for the Treatment of Diabetes, 243 Satish K. Garg and Jay S. Skyler Index, 271