David Simmons

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Distinguished Professor Simmons is Professor of Medicine at Western Sydney University and Deputy Head of the Campbelltown Hospital Diabetes Service in Sydney. With over 550 refereed publications, he has won several national and international awards for his work in diabetes epidemiology, pregnancy and diabetes service development including the American Diabetes Association 2020 Norbert Freinkel Award and 2022 Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group Pederson Awardee. He is a three times past president of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS) and was th first Chief Medical Officer for Diabetes Australia. He was the trial coordinator for the DALI lifestyle RCT to prevent GDM and is the Chief Investigator for the TOBOGM study the first large RCT of diagnosing and treating early gestational diabetes mellitus.

Abstracts this author is presenting:

An early pregnancy HbA_1c ≥5.9% (41 mmol/mol) is not a valid biomarker for early or late gestational diabetes mellitus and does not predict adverse pregnancy outcomes in obese pregnant women — Welcome Function and Poster Viewing
The metabolic phenotypes of early onset gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and their association with adverse pregnancy outcomes — Oral Presentations
Relationship between sleep and snoring and body mass index among women with risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus at booking: Preliminary findings from a multicentre randomized trial — Welcome Function and Poster Viewing
Implementation of an integrated, district-wide Diabetes Contraception and Pre-pregnancy Program (DCAPP) among women with Type 1 and 2 diabetes: an update — Welcome Function and Poster Viewing
ADIPS Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinical Audit Programme — Updates: Guidelines, Clinical Audit and HAPO
Perspectives on GDM — Perspectives on GDM

David Simmons Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

David Simmons

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