How do you make patients a priority—the center of your practice, and encourage them to become actively involved in their diabetes treatment? How do you go about cultivating “Informed, Activated Patients”?

In what ways can we collaborate with other disciplines to effectively care for patients with diabetes? How do we create “Prepared, Proactive Practice teams”?

How do you mobilize community resources to meet the needs of your patients? How do you find and/or evaluate resources in your community, and what are some good ways to connect your patients with those resources?

What does a healthy health system look like? How can diabetes educators be involved in creating a culture, organization and mechanisms that promote safe, high quality care?

How do we, as educators, succeed in empowering and preparing patients to manage their health? How can we be more effective?

Delivery System Design

How do we manage division of labor among members of the care team? How can we help redesign the structure of the current delivery systems to ensure the delivery of effective, efficient clinical care and self-management support?

As educators, how can we help other members of the diabetes care team make the best judgments and decisions about our patients’ care? Should we be doing more? How do we promote clinical care that is consistent with scientific evidence and patient preferences?

How can technology help us help patients? What are some effective ways to organize patient and population data to facilitate efficient care?