This week’s convention of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists in Houston is winding down this afternoon. The Health Central Network sent me here to report on it.

About 1350 endocrinologists and related health professionals are here along with 88 companies exhibiting their products. The doctors presented 170 posters and 200 abstracts.

Now that I’ve gone to the meetings that I needed to attend and talked with the doctors I needed to interview, I’ve got time to start writing about them. In the next few days you can expect several articles that I am developing out of my interviews at the convention and separately with a company headquartered in Houston.
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The annual convention of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists — those medical specialists who treat diabetes — is underway in Houston. I’m covering the event for The Health Central Network.

The convention took over the George R. Brown Convention Center in the downtown of America’s fourth largest city. The convention center is so big that after Hurricane Katrina 7,000 refugees lived here.

In the mob of today’s convention you might imagine my surprise that the first person I made eye contact with asked if I was David Mendosa. The person who asked was Sarah Senn, who I had sent several photos for an article that she wrote about me. But we had never previously met in person.
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Diabetes bloggers are playing tag. My friend Bill Quick, who has the Diabetes.Blog.Com and the Diabetes Monitor website, tagged me after Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine had tagged him. [Read more →]

Frederick Banting was a small-town Canadian doctor in the early 1920s. He was just starting out in practice and didn’t even have enough patients to afford to get married. [Read more →]