Società Italiana di Diabetologia – SID

About

The Società Italiana di Diabetologia (Italian Society of Diabetes – SID) is a non-profit scientific association with over 2,500 active professional members from all fields of diabetes care, education, and research. SID is actively involved in organising high-quality diabetes conferences and providing continuing medical education for professionals in the field.

SID supports diabetes research primarily through the Diabetes Research Foundation (FO.DI.RI Onlus).

SID and FO.DI.RI Onlus promote and support research studies on diabetes and metabolic diseases.

SID is organized into 16 regional chapters to closely align with the administrative structure of the Italian Health System.

Main Focus

• Contribute to the advancement of research and knowledge, the implementation of prevention strategies, and the continuous improvement of treatments for diabetes, obesity, and related chronic cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic complications.
• Promote continuous improvement in the quality of life of people affected by these conditions.
• Strengthen the role of diabetologists and their teams by encouraging research, developing continuing education projects, and fostering relationships between institutions, patient associations, other scientific societies, and people affected by diabetes. Diabetes, obesity, and related cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic complications.

Activities

• Promote diabetes education and training for healthcare professionals.
• Promote initiatives by people with diabetes to improve diabetes care.
• Organise events to raise awareness about diabetes and fundraise for diabetes research and treatment.

Publications & Newsletters

SID has three journals for healthcare professionals:

• Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease (NMCD), in collaboration with SISA and SINU societies
• Il Diabete (Diabetes)
• ACTA Diabetologia, in collaboration with AMD