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Contents<br />

Diabetes<br />

& Primary Care Australia<br />

Volume 2 No 3 2017<br />

@PCDSAus<br />

Website: www.pcdsa.com.au/journal<br />

Editorial<br />

Our second national conference 85<br />

Rajna Ogrin introduces this issue and reflects on the success of the PCDSA's second national conference.<br />

From the other side of the desk<br />

I love my CGM: Managing my diabetes is no longer a performance 86<br />

How continuous glucose monitoring helped Tim Burnham get his career back on track.<br />

Meeting report<br />

2 nd National Conference of the Primary Care Diabetes Society of Australia 88<br />

Mark Kennedy summarises the sessions from the PCDSA's recent national conference held in Melbourne.<br />

CPD module<br />

Managing dyslipidaemia in the context of diabetes 100<br />

For this issue’s free education module, Mike Kirby and Roy Rasalam explore the latest thinking on the links between dyslipidaemia and<br />

cardiovascular risk, and review the evidence for lipid management in people with diabetes.<br />

Articles<br />

Sexual health and dysfunction in men and women with diabetes 91<br />

David Edwards and Nicholas Forgione outline the identification and treatment of sexual dysfunction in people with diabetes.<br />

Primary care practitioner guide to the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot:<br />

Recommendations for the Australian context 111<br />

Rajna Ogin and Jane Tennant discuss the prevention of diabetes-related foot ulcers and translates international guidelines into the Australian<br />

primary care setting.<br />

The new class war: SGLT2 inhibitors versus DPP-4 inhibitors 119<br />

Merlin Thomas compares the benefits and risks associated with SGLT2 and DPP-4 inhibitors when added to metformin in type 2 diabetes.<br />

Editor-in-Chief<br />

Rajna Ogrin<br />

Senior Research Fellow, RDNS<br />

Institute, St Kilda, Vic<br />

Associate Editor<br />

Gary Kilov<br />

Practice Principal, The Seaport<br />

Practice, and Senior Lecturer,<br />

University of Tasmania,<br />

Launceston, Tas<br />

Editorial Board<br />

Ralph Audehm<br />

GP Director, Dianella Community<br />

Health, and Associate Professor,<br />

University of Melbourne,<br />

Melbourne, Vic<br />

Werner Bischof<br />

Periodontist, and Associate<br />

Professor, LaTrobe University,<br />

Bendigo, Vic<br />

Anna Chapman<br />

Research Fellow, RDNS Institute,<br />

St Kilda, Vic<br />

Laura Dean<br />

Course Director of the Graduate<br />

Certificate in Pharmacy<br />

Practice, Monash University, Vic<br />

Nicholas Forgione<br />

Principal, Trigg Health Care<br />

Centre, Perth, WA<br />

John Furler<br />

Principal Research Fellow and<br />

Associate Professor,<br />

University of Melbourne, Vic<br />

Mark Kennedy<br />

Medical Director, Northern Bay<br />

Health, Geelong, and Honorary<br />

Clinical Associate Professor,<br />

University of Melbourne,<br />

Melbourne, Vic<br />

Peter Lazzarini<br />

Senior Research Fellow,<br />

Queensland University of<br />

Technology, Brisbane, Qld<br />

Roy Rasalam<br />

Head of Clinical Skills and<br />

Medical Director,<br />

James Cook University, and<br />

Clinical Researcher, Townsville<br />

Hospital, Townsville, Qld<br />

Suzane Ryan<br />

Practice Principal, Newcastle<br />

Family Practice, Newcastle, NSW<br />

Editorial team<br />

Olivia Tamburello, Tracy Tran,<br />

Charlotte Lindsay<br />

Editorial Manager<br />

Richard Owen<br />

Publisher<br />

Simon Breed<br />

© OmniaMed SB and the Primary Care<br />

Diabetes Society of Australia<br />

Published by OmniaMed SB,<br />

1–2 Hatfields, London<br />

SE1 9PG, UK<br />

All rights reserved. No part of this<br />

journal may be reproduced or transmitted<br />

in any form, by any means, electronic<br />

or mechanic, including photocopying,<br />

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system, without the publisher’s<br />

permission.<br />

ISSN 2397-2254<br />

Diabetes & Primary Care Australia Vol 2 No 3 2017 83

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