Head-to-Toe: Prevention & Management of Diabetes Conditions & Complications
May 17-18, 2024

Southbridge, MA 

Activity description: The goals of this program are to provide members of the diabetes care team with the knowledge and training to collaborate with the interprofessional team and implement routine screenings, prevention and management strategies for diabetes-related complications based on the general care standards.

Target audience: This activity is designed for individuals or groups of diabetes care and education specialists including Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions. 

Requirements for successful completion: For successful completion, participants are required to attend the full activity, and complete and submit the program evaluation at the conclusion of the educational event. Your Statement of Credit will be issued upon submission of the evaluation form. Pharmacists must provide their date of birth (MMDD) and NABP ePID to receive credit. Pharmacist learners who fail to provide this information will not receive credit for this activity. Please check your NABP profile within 45 days of this activity to make sure your credits were uploaded. Per the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board, nurse practitioners are eligible to claim continuing education contact hours from ANCC 

Disclosure and Mitigation of Relevant Conflicts of Interest: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) requires anyone in a position to affect or control continuing education content (e.g., authors, presenters, and program planners) to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. It is the responsibility of ADCES to mitigate and disclose all relevant conflicts of interest. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of the presentation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among education activity planners and faculty are as follows:

All identified relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

Speakers
Katelyn O’Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Aissatou Gueye, MA, MSN, NP – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Janet Huehls, MS, ACSM-CEP, CHWC – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD. – Abbott, Lilly, Novo Nordisk: Consultant, Research Support

Joanne Rinker, MS, RDN, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES – Mannkind: Employee

Susan Weiner, MS RDN CDN CDCES FADCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Colleen Johnson, MS, RDN, LDN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

David J. Ramsey, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

David Benjamin Alper, DPM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Anna Sabino, MSW, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Sarah Petti – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Medha Munshi, MD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Selin Gumustop, B.A. – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Planners
Michael See, MS, ACSM-CEP, CDCES, NBC-HWC – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Judith Pentedemos, APRN, BC, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Jennifer Newman, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Katelyn O’Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Aissatou Gueye, MA, MSN, NP – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Content Reviewers
Cynthia Fritschi, APN, RN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Tania C Bezerra, MA, RDN, LDN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Activity Agenda

Friday Schedule
2:00 pm - The 5 Steps of Conversations that Make Exercising a Self-Care Habit
Janet Huehls, MS, ACSM-CEP, CHWC  
Clinical Exercise Physiologist, UMass Memorial Medical Center

3:00 pm - Obesity Management: Current Perspectives  
Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD. 
Medical Director, Joslin Diabetes Center,

4:15 pm - Who Should CaRe? Me! Cardio-Renal Metabolic (CaRe Me) Approaches to Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Katelyn O’Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Endocrinology, Boston Medical Center,

Saturday Schedule
7:00 - 8:00 am - Registration/Breakfast/Vendor Exhibits/Networking

8:15 am - Diabetes and Hearing Loss: The Importance of Decreasing Prolonged Hyperglycemia
Joanne Rinker, MS, RDN, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES; Associate Director of Medical Education, MannKind Corp
Susan Weiner, MS RDN CDN CDCES FADCES - Owner and Clinical Director, Susan Weiner Nutrition, PLLC

9:30 am - Emotional and Disordered Eating in Diabetes
Nutrition Educator, Joslin Diabetes Center
Colleen Johnson, MS, RDN, LDN, CDCES Emotional and Disordered Eating in Diabetes

10:30 - 11:00 am - Awards & Recognition

11:00 - noon - Insights into Diabetes: Navigating Eye Health
David J. Ramsey, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. 
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Tufts Univ SOM, Beth Israel Lahey Health 
Selin Gumustop, B.A.
Research Assistant in Ophthalmology, Tufts Univ SOM, Beth Israel Lahey Health 

Noon - 1:00 pm - Lunch, Vendor Exhibit

1:00 pm - Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot
David Benjamin Alper, DPM; Emeritus Surgical staff at Mt. Auburn Hospital

2:15 pm - The Invisible Mental Load - Can You Help Carry It? 
Anna Sabino, MSW, CDCES; Owner, Finding Smiles Coaching LLC 
Sarah Petti, Co-founder, DiabetesSangha

3:30 pm - Diabetes in Older Age – Striking the Balance
Medha Munshi, MD; Director, Geriatric Diabetes Program Joslin Diabetes Center

Accreditation:

In support of improving patient care, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education The Universal Activity Number is JA4008258-0000-24-055-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 9.0 contact hour(s) 

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 9.0 ANCC contact hours. 

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 9.0 contact hours. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the activity concludes. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 9.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. 

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR): CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 9.0 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR prefession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietietics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 9.0 continuing education credits.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists: To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (http://www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Other Health Professionals: It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.