Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an increasingly prevalent and aggressive condition, associated with earlier and higher rates of cardiometabolic disease, microvascular complications and mental health burden.
This advanced course equips GPs to recognise early risk factors and presentations, differentiate youth-onset T2D from other causes of hyperglycaemia, and initiate timely referral. The course explores comorbidity assessment, family-based risk and intergenerational influences, and the GP’s ongoing role within the multidisciplinary care team. Participants will review current management pathways and recommendations for patients who present in their youth, as well as those who transition to, or present in early adulthood.
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Dr Peña is an Associate Professor at The University of Adelaide and a Staff Specialist at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She has been the deputy Chair of the Patient Care Ethics Committee at the Women's and Children's Hospital since 2019. Dr Peña has a strong research interest in management of childhood and adolescent obesity; and its comorbidities including Type 2 diabetes and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Her research has been published in high impact factor journals and has been presented nationally and internationally.
Dr South is both a GP and dietitian with over 30 years’ healthcare experience. She has a specific interest in metabolic health, serves as Chair of the RACGP Obesity Management Specific Interest Group, and is a member of the RACGP Diabetes Specific Interest Group. She brings clinical, multidisciplinary, and lived experience to advancing metabolic health care and education in general practice.
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