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p r i m a ry c a r e d i a b e t e s 8 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 8 7 – 9 0

available at www.sciencedirect.com

Primary Care Diabetes journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pcd

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Announcement (becoming an active member for PCDE).

• PCDE’s peer reviewed Journal ‘Primary Care Diabetes”, published by Elsevier, is indexed in Thomson Reuters SCI, Pubmed, PsycInfo and Scopus.

PCDE (Primary Care Diabetes Europe) is a non profit NGO with over 4000 members in different European countries. Our mission is to provide a focal point for primary care clinicians

• The website http://www.pcdeurope.org is under continued development. • PCDE is

linked with other international associations as

and their patients by promoting high standards of care for

WONCA, EGPRN, IDF, FEND, EASD, ECD, EURADIA, EPCCS,

people living with diabetes throughout Europe. Emphasis is

PCDS,etc.

placed on incorporating evidence based medicine into daily practice as well as promoting diabetes education and research

Due to expansion of our activities, PCDE would like to get in

in primary care.

contact with new active members.

PCDE is active in different fields of diabetes care :

We are looking for primary care clinicians…

• Research: within EASD as the official “Study Group of

– Preferably with an academic background

Primary Care Research in Diabetology” and involved in different European projects as ‘Diamap’, ‘Sweet’, ‘MANAGE CARE’, ‘Calliope’, ‘Image’, ‘TransFoRm’, DAWN2, etc. • Conference organisation: WONCA; Since 2010 PCDE is a Special Interest Group. Annual or bi-annual stand alone conferences or together

– Connected with a primary care association in their home country – With a special interest in high quality diabetes care – Available for dedicated tasks in promoting diabetes in their country and abroad – Looking for networking across Europe

with other associations (like EPCCS, AHEAD, DESG etc.) www.2014pcdeconference.org • Advocating diabetes at the political level by participating in

If you are interested in becoming an active member for PCDE please contact:

the “European Coalition for Diabetes”, together with

Ottilia Hoogeslag (operational manager)

IDF-Europe, FEND and EURADIA.

[email protected]