Diabetes and Its Complications
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Key takeaways to expect:
Sessions led by master clinicians
Learn comprehensive updates for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes comorbidities and complications
Highest Rated CME
This program has sold out in previous years due to limited seating, but the new virtual platform provides the opportunity for everyone to attend eliminating the need to travel
Earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ECMECs®
Enhance your skills and knowledge while earning CME
Updates, guidance, and best practices to optimize care for patients with diabetes
Designed for
- Internists
- Family Physicians
- Hospitalists
- Endocrinologists
- Geriatricians
- Nurse Practicioners
- Physician Assistants
- Certified Diabetes Educators
Learning objective:
- Identify methods to improve the efficacy of lifestyle interventions in the treatment of diabetes and related conditions and address methods to initiate these interventions efficiently and effectively.
- Identify how pathophysiologic components of type 1 and type 2 diabetes relate to diabetes comorbidities and impact glycemic treatment design.
- Describe the clinical implications of evidence-based treatment guidelines from recognized expert organizations for the selection, initiation, and advancement of newer pharmacologic and technologic treatments for diabetes to optimize the efficacy and safety of glycemic control.
- Recognize strategies to address diabetes-related comorbidities and complications based on an updated knowledge of evolving treatment advances.
- Identify and then recognize strategies to overcome barriers to optimizing care of diabetes and its comorbidities which emanate from patients, providers, and practice systems issues.
- Recognize methods to utilize the implications of cardiovascular outcomes trials of antidiabetes medications and evolving methods to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiovascular disease for people with diabetes.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, November 12, 2020
| 7:00 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 7:45 AM |
Introduction and Welcome: A Collective Call to Action
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COMPREHENSIVE APPROACHES TO OBESITY: BLUNTING ITS IMPACT
| 8:00 AM |
Exercise: Quick and Effective In-Office Risk Assessment and Personalized “Perscription” Strategies¹
Edward M. Phillips, MD
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| 8:30 AM |
State-of-the-Art Nutritional Approaches to Weight Management: One Size Does Not Fit All¹
Jody Dushay, MD, MMSc
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| 9:15 AM |
Impacting Diabetes Outcomes with New Techniques for Motivation Interviewing: Here’s How¹²
Frank J. Domino, MD |
| 10:00 AM |
Refreshment Break
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| 10:20 AM |
Pharmacologic Management of Obesity: When. What. How.¹²
Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE
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| 11:05 AM |
Surgical Treatment of Obesity: Techniques, Outcomes, and a Patient’s Perspective¹
Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS
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SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND DIABETES
| 11:40 AM |
Optimal Management of Hypertension in People with Diabetes²
Melanie P. Hoenig, MD
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| 12:25 PM |
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
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| 1:30 PM |
Optimal Management of Dyslipidemia²
Om P. Ganda, MBBS, MD
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| 2:15 PM |
Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes and Chronic Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Diabetes²
Duane Pinto, MD
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| 3:00 PM |
Improving Clinician Wellness through Exercise¹
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| 3:10 PM |
Refreshment Break
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| 3:30 PM |
Diabetes and Heart Failure: Update on Management²
Arthur Reshad Garan, MD
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| 4:10 PM |
Common Cardiovascular Tests and Their Optimal Interpretation
Michael Gavin, MD, MPH |
| 4:40 PM |
Panel Discussion
Faculty |
Note: Program changes/substitutions may be made without notice. To view the most up-to-date agenda, please visit the course website.
¹Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
²Qualifies for Pharmacology Credit
Friday, November 13, 2020
| 7:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast
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UPDATES ON THE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES
| 7:30 AM |
Beyond Metformin: Navigating and Applying the New Guidelines and Reducing Cardiovascular Risk¹²
Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP
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| 8:30 AM |
Newer Insulins and How to Use Them²
Richard S. Beaser, MD
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| 9:30 AM |
Refreshment Break
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SPECIAL WORKSHOP: CHALLENGING CASES IN GLYCEMIC CONTROL
| 9:50 AM |
Challenges in Optimizing Glycemic Control: An Interactive Session²
Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP
Richard S. Beaser, MD Erin Kelly, MEd, RN, BSN, CDE Alissa R. Segal, Pharm D, CDE, CDTC, FCCP Gillian Arathuzik, RD, LDN, CDE |
| 11:05 AM |
Q&A: Medical Management of Diabetes²
Faculty
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| 11:35 AM |
Keynote: Microbiome (the Second Human Genome): What Shapes It and How It Shapes Us
Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP
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| 12:20 PM |
Lunch Break (On Your Own)
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SPECIAL SITUATIONS
| 1:20 PM |
The Challenges of Inpatient Diabetes Management and Transition to Outpatient Care¹
Lyle D. Mitzner, MD
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| 2:00 PM |
Managing Diabetes in the Elderly – Individualizing Care¹²
Medha N. Munshi, MD
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| 2:40 PM |
Care for Pregnant Women and Women Planning to Become Pregnant: Screening, Risk Mitigation, Treatment, Patient Education¹²
Florence M. Brown, MD
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| 3:20 PM |
Improving Clinician Wellness Through Exercise¹
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| 3:30 PM |
Refreshment Break
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| 3:50 PM |
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis: Assessing Severity and Optimizing Management
Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP
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| 4:50 PM |
New Insights Into the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes
Jason L. Gaglia, MD, MMSc
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Note: Program changes/substitutions may be made without notice. To view the most up-to-date agenda, please visit the course website.
¹Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
²Qualifies for Pharmacology Credit
Saturday, November 14, 2020
| 7:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast
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| 7:30 AM |
How to (Recognize and) Factor the Emotional and Psychological Needs of Patients with Diabetes into Your Clinical Care¹
Aaron M. Price, LICSW
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MICROVASCULAR DISEASE AND DIABETES
| 8:00 AM |
Treating Retinopathy: Optimizing the Impact of Recent Advances
Deborah K. Schlossman, MD
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| 8:40 AM |
Treatment of Renal Disease: Guidance to Blunt the Impact, Slow the Progression²
Robert C. Stanton, MD
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| 9:30 AM |
Evaluating and Treating Neuropathies of Diabetes: 2020 Updates
Patricia E. Greenstein, MD
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| 10:10 AM |
Refreshment Break
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| 10:30 AM |
Managing Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetes²
Michael S. Irwig, MD, FACE
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THE DIABETIC FOOT
| 11:10 AM |
The Foot: Preventing Damage and Treatment Options¹
John M. Giurini, DPM
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| 11:40 AM |
Peripheral Vascular Disease: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management²
David R. Campbell, MD, FRCS, FACS
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SPECIAL SESSION
| 12:10 PM |
Indispensable Tips for Incorporating Updates Into Clinical Practice
Faculty
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Note: Program changes/substitutions may be made without notice. To view the most up-to-date agenda, please visit the course website.
¹Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
²Qualifies for Pharmacology Credit
Course Directors
Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Co-Director — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Continuing Education
Richard S. Beaser, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Medical Director — Joslin Continuing Medical Education
Senior Staff Physician — Joslin Diabetes Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP
Professor of Medicine — Harvard Medical School
Editor-in-Chief — UpToDate, Hepatology Section
Co-Director – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Continuing Education
Faculty
Gillian Arathuzik, RD, LDN, CDE
Florence M. Brown, MD
David R. Campbell, MD, FRCS, FACS
Frank J. Domino, MD
Jody Dushay, MD, MMSc
Jason L. Gaglia, MD, MMSc
Om P. Ganda, MBBS, MD
Arthur Reshad Garan, MD
Michael C. Gavin, MD, MPH, FACC
John M. Giurini, DPM
Patricia E. Greenstein, MD
Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE
Melanie P. Hoenig, MD
Michael S. Irwig, MD, FACE
Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS
Erin Kelly, MEd, RN, BSN, CDE
Lyle D. Mitzner, MD
Medha N. Munshi, MD
Edward M. Phillips, MD
Duane S. Pinto, MD, MPH
Aaron M. Price, LICSW
Deborah K. Schlossman, MD
Alissa R. Segal, PharmD, CDE, CDTC, FCCP
Robert C. Stanton, MD
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