MAJOR SPONSORS:

Eli Lily & Co., USA
Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

SPONSORS:

Abbott GmbH Diagnostika, Germany
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, USA
Bayer plc, UK
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co./Sanofi-Synthelabo
Disetronic Medical Systems AG, Switzerland
Glaxo Wellcome plc, UK
IDD - The Institute for Diabetes Discovery Inc, USA
Merck Lipha S.A., France
MiniMed, USA
Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Pfizer Inc., USA
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Israel, Ltd.
Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
Servier, France
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, USA
Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., Japan

CONTRIBUTORS:

El Al Israel Airlines
Ministry of Tourism, Israel
Pharmaclal Bayer, Israel
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Israel

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Chairperson: Pesach Segal

LOCAL EXECUTIVE

Meir Berezin
Moshe Hod
Avraham Karasik
Ardon Rubinstein
Eleazar Shafrir

LOCAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hanoch Bar-On
Geoffrey Boner
Erol Cerasi
Irun Cohen
Ohad Cohen
Ilana Harman-Boehm
Tommy Herskovits
Yoram Kanter
Eddy Karnieli
Moshe Karp
Zvi Laron
Zecharia Madar
Maximo Maislos
Oskar Minuchin
Moshe Phillip
Micha Rapoport
Itamar Raz
Irit Rosenblatt
Naim Shehadeh
Pnina Vardi
Julio Wainstein
Shimon Weitzman
Yehiel Zick

PROJECT MANAGER

Daniella Dreman, Kenes

ABSTRACT SELECTION COMMITTEE

S. Baumgartner-Parzer, Austria
B.O. B?hm, Germany
I. De Leeuw, Belgium
S. Del Prato, Italy
K. Docherty, UK
D. Eizirik, Belgium
B. Frier, UK
J. Fuller, UK
L. Groop, Sweden
A. Karasik, Israel
D. Koev, Bulgaria
H. Kolb, Germany
N. Lalic, Yugoslavia
M. Marre, France
D. Matthews, UK
D. Mauricio, Spain
A. Melander, Sweden
A. Mitrakou, Greece
A. Pfeiffer, Germany
T. Pieber, Austria
F. Pociot, Denmark
M. Porta, Italy (Chairman)
P. Pozzilli, Italy
G. Riccardi, Italy
A. J. Scheen, Belgium
P. Segal, Israel
J. Skrha, Czech Republic
E. Standl, Germany
C. Stehouver, The Netherlands
K. Strojek, Poland
C.J. Tack, the Netherlands
M. Uusitupa, Finland
E. van Obberghen, France
N. Welsh, Sweden
J. Zierath, Sweden

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

I. De Leeuw, Belgium
K. Docherty, UK
D. Eizirik, Belgium
J. Fuller, UK
A. Karasik, Israel
A. Pfeiffer, Germany
T. Pieber, Austria
F. Pociot, Denmark
M. Porta, Italy
G. Riccardi, Italy
P. Segal, Israel
C. Stehouver, The Netherlands
K. Strojek, Poland
J. Zierath, Sweden

European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Association Européenne pour l'Etude du Diabète
Europäische Gesellschaft för Diabetologie

ORGANISATION SECTION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President:
J. Nerup, Denmark
Vice-Presidents:
G. Solt?sz, Hungary
G.H. Tomkin, Ireland
Honorary Secretary:
M. Porta, Italy
Honorary Treasurer:
R.J. Heine, The Netherlands
Editor-in-Chief, Diabetologia:
W. Waldhausl, Austria
Chair, Postgraduate-Education Sub-Committee:
A.J.M. Boulton, UK

COUNCIL MEMBERS OF EASD

Past President:
M. Berger, Germany

Council Members
(term expiring September 2000):
T. Halmos, Hungary
M. Hod, Israel
D. Koev, Bulgaria
I. Valverde, Spain

Council Members
(term expiring September 2001):
P.R. Flatt, UK
R. Holl, Germany
M. Marre, France
E. Van Obberghen, France

Council Members
(term expiring September 2002):
A. Mitrakou, Greece
J.H.B. Scarpello, UK
G.A. Spinas, Switzerland
H. Wallberg-Henriksson, Sweden

The Chairman and Secretary of the Postgraduate Education Sub-Committee (A.J.M. Boulton and J. Skrha) are members ex-officio.

Executive Director:
V. Jorgens, Germany

Secretariat:
C. Bohlander, M. Hata, K. Page, R. Sautter

Merowingerstr. 29, D-40223 Dusseldorf, Germany

HONORARY MEMBERS OF EASD

W. Creutzfeldt, Gottingen, Germany
J.K. Davidson, Atlanta, USA
L.G. Heding, Copenhagen, Denmark
J.G.L. Jackson, Woking, UK
H. Keen, London, UK
E. Kohner, London, UK
R. Korec, Kosice, Slovakia
R. Luft, Stockholm, Sweden
K. Oberdisse, Dusseldorf, Germany
J. Pirart, Brussels, Belgium
Sir P. Randle, Oxford, UK
S. Rahbar, Duarte, USA
J.L. Rodriguez-Minon, Madrid, Spain
E. Shafrir, Jerusalem, Israel
E. von Wasielewski, Munich, Germany

EASD GOLD MEMBERSHIP

Aventis Pharma GmbH, Germany
Glaxo Wellcome plc, UK
LifeScan Inc., USA
Lilly Research Laboratories, Germany
Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Novo Nordisk a/s, Denmark
Pfizer Inc., New York, USA
Servier Research Group, France
Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., Japan

EASD SILVER MEMBERSHIP

F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG, Switzerland

EASD ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

Amylin Europe Limited, UK
AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK
BD Consumer Healthcare-Europe, France
Berlin Chemie AG, Germany
Disetronic Medical Systems AG, Switzerland
Farmigea SpA, Italy
Hemocue, Sweden
Knoll BASF Pharma AG, Germany
Merck-Lipha S.A., France
Owen Mumford Ltd., UK
Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
Sankyo Pharma GmbH, Germany