For immediate release | September 17, 2010

World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes

Annapolis, MD… Conference & Logistics Consultants, Inc. (C&LC), one of the Washington region’s top event planners, announced today that the firm has been contracted to manage the logistics of the World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes.  The Congress will take place at the Hilton New York March 28-30, 2011.

Ann Jackson, MBA, Executive Vice President of the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation said, “We selected Conference & Logistics Consultants for this project based on past successful meetings. I’ve loved working with C&LC over the last eight years and have found that they are able to not only anticipate problems but provide creative and timely solutions in a very professional and organized manner.”  The World Congress is a joint effort between the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation, based in Houston, Texas and Milan, Italy, Weill Cornell Medical College, and NewYork Presbyterian Hospital.

The World Congress is a unique forum combining health disciplines such as diabetology, an emerging medical field with sweeping implications for global health and public policy. Congress organizers are hoping to craft an agenda of research priorities and health policy initiatives and discuss how the study of gastrointestinal interventions may improve the understanding of diabetes and provide direction for future treatments of curative intent.For additional information on the Congress, visit www.wcidt.org.


Since 1987, Conference & Logistics Consultants, Inc. has planned more than 2200 conferences and meetings. Conference & Logistics Consultants plans events that range from 50 to 10,000 attendees in both North America and Europe.The firm’s clients include associations, corporations, and government agencies; the company has plannedmeetings and events for Microsoft, DuPont, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, and more.

In 2009, the firm was named one of the top 25 meeting and event planners in the Washington area by the Washington Business Journal for the twelfth year in a row.

For more information visit www.gomeeting.com.