The event will occur at:
Blair County Convention Center
1 Convention Drive
Altoona, PA 16602

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Holiday Inn Express -- PA Diabetes Association Block

Elevating Your Skill Set in Diabetes Management
May 2-3, 2024

Altoona, PA

Activity description: The participants will be able to apply current evidence-based guidelines, artificial intelligence, and technology for elevating their skills and overcoming treatment barriers in the care of persons with diabetes.

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

Kellie Antinori-Lent, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Olivia Krolczyk, MSN, RN, CDCES – Medtronic, Tandem: Pump Trainer; Tandem: Stock

Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES –Medtronic: Previous employment, Welldoc: Consultant

Frank L Schwartz, MD, FACE – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Diane Battaglia, RN, CDCES, CPT – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Marc F. Sinclair, BSN, RN, CDCES, CPT – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Mary Treadway MS, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Lori Bednarz RN, MSN, CPT, CDCES  – Medtronic, Tandem: Pump Trainer

Jim Meister, RD, LDN, CPT – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Tammie Payne, CRNP, MSN, RN, CDCES, CPT, NP-Cx – Mannkind, Embecta: Advisory Board

Planners

Patricia Davidson, DCN, RDN, LDN, CDCES, FAND, CHSE – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Susan Balog, RN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Tammie Payne, CRNP, MSN, RN, CDCES, CPT, NP-Cx – Mannkind, Embecta: Advisory Board

Barbara Kocurek, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, FADCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible

Marc F. Sinclair, BSN, RN, CDCES, CPT – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Mary Treadway MS, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Content Reviewers

Amy Fischl, MS, RDN, LDN, BC-ADM, CDCES – Abbott, Insulet, Xeris Pharmaceuticals: Speakers Bureau

Erin Raney, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Cathriya Shuk-Yee Penny, DNP, ACHPN, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, CCP, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Activity Agenda

 Day 1 Thursday May 2, 2024

7:30-9:15 am registration/vendors/Breakfast

9:15 am opening remarks

9:30-10:30am History of the DSME Past, Present, and Future

Kellie Antinori-Lent MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside

10:30-11:30 am Reimbursing/Billing and Scope of Practice

Diane Battaglia, RN CDCES CPT

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

11:30 am-12:30 pm AI in Diabetes Care and Education

Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES

Janice Macleod Consulting

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch/vendors

1:30 -2:30 pm -Expanding the use of Technology

Lori Bednarz RN, MSN, CDCES University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Diabetes

 2:30 -3:30pm – Taking a Deep Dive into Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Frank L Schwartz, MD FACE, Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology & Former J O Watson Chair for Diabetes Research at The Diabetes Institute; Ohio University

3:30-4:00 pm break/vendor

4:00-5:00 pm- Smart Pen Technology for Pediatrics vs Adult

Marc F. Sinclair, BSN, RN, CDCES, CPT

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Specialty Services

5:30-6:00 pm OPEN BAR

6:00-7:30 pm Dinner event

 Day 2 Friday May 3, 2024

7:00-8:00 am vendor/breakfast

8:00-9:00 am – Troubleshooting and Using the Reports

Olivia Krolczyk, MSN RN CDCES

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

9:00-10:00 am – Enhancing Patient Motivation

Jim Meister, RD, LDN, CPT

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

10:00- 10:30 am - break/vendor

10:30-11:30 am – Value of Inpatient Nurse

Mary Treadway MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES

Coplin Health Systems

11:30 am-12:30 pm – Defeating Diabetes & Obesity- Medication Updates

Tammie Payne CRNP, MSN, RN, CDCES, CPT, NP-C

University of Pittsburgh

12:30 pm- Closing Remarks

Location: Blair County Convention Center 1 Convention Drive, Altoona, PA 16602

Questions? Contact PA ADCES Education Lead at [email protected]

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 JA4008258-0000-24-057-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 10.0 contact hour(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 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 10.0 ANCC contact hours.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 10.0 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 10.0 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 10.0 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 10.0 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.