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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 />
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ISSN 2397-2254<br />
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