Updates, Guidance, and Best Practices for Patients with Diabetes
Those of you who provide care for people with (or at risk of) diabetes know that these patients often have a myriad of comorbidities and complications, and that optimizing their care is frequently complex and challenging. It is with these challenges in mind that Harvard Medical School faculty have developed this CME program, Diabetes and Its Complications.
This program provides comprehensive updates, practice recommendations, and the newest evidence-based strategies for the treatment and care of the person with or at risk for diabetes. You will receive a comprehensive education including practical information to optimize patient care now. We will address the following:
Diabetes screening
Pharmacological management of diabetes, including insulin and non-insulin treatments
The latest advances in insulin delivery and glucose monitoring
Treating complications and comorbidities, including dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, peripheral vascular disease, cardiovascular disease, the diabetic foot, kidney disease, liver disease
Lifestyle interventions
Care of older patients with diabetes
Incorporating recent advances into your practice
Challenging cases
This program delivers practical updates to improve the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with diabetes.
* Date of Release: October 24-26, 2024 in Boston, United States
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Describe the pathophysiology of type 1 and of type 2 diabetes, how it is related to the development/progression of key diabetes comorbidities, and how knowledge of pathophysiology drives prevention and treatment.
Identify ways to improve skills and office-based care systems to optimize lifestyle interventions in the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and related conditions.
Describe the implications and impact of the latest evidence-based expert treatment guidelines for lifestyle, pharmacologic, and technologic treatments of diabetes and its comorbidities.
Recognize how the evolving clinical implications of cardiovascular and renal outcomes trials of antidiabetes medications can be effectively applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these comorbidities of diabetes.
Apply the latest preventive, diagnostic, and treatment approaches to the care of the various disease and treatment-related comorbidities of diabetes impacting eyes, nerves, peripheral vascular and foot, liver, bone, and issues with hypoglycemia, and in special populations of people with diabetes such as the elderly, pregnant women, and hospitalized individuals.
Identify and overcome clinical practice barriers emanating from patients, providers, and practice systems issues.
Communicate with people with diabetes, families, and health team members in a responsive manner that supports a team approach to the promotion and maintenance of health, as well as prevention and treatment of disease in individuals with diabetes.
1. Beyond Metformin: Navigating and Applying the New Guidelines and Reducing Cardiovascular Risk – Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP
2. Newer Insulins and How to Use Them: A Comprehensive Primer – Richard S. Beaser, MD
3. Technology to Optimize the Management of Diabetes – Anne Peters, MD
4. Hypoglycemia and Diabetes – Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD
5. Screening, Prevention and Early Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes – Jason L. Gaglia, MD, MMSc
6. KEYNOTE: Microbiome (The Second Human Genome): What Shapes It and How It Shapes Us – Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, FRCP (London)
II. SPECIAL WORKSHOP: CHALLENGING CASES IN GLYCEMIC CONTROL
1. Challenges in Optimizing Glycemic Control: An Interactive Session – Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP; Gillian Arathuzik, RD, LDN, CDCES; Richard S. Beaser, MD; Erin K. Martin, RN, CDCES; Alissa R. Segal, PharmD, CDCES, CDTC, FCCP
III. SPECIAL SITUATIONS
1. The Challenges of Inpatient Diabetes Management and Transition to Outpatient Care – Zachary H. Taxin, MD
2. Managing Diabetes in the Elderly – Individualizing Care – Medha N. Munshi, MD
1. Care for Pregnant Women and Women Planning to Become Pregnant: Screening, Risk Mitigation, Treatment, Patient Education – Florence M. Brown, MD
2. Multidisciplinary Case Workshop and Panel Discussion – Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP Richard S. Beaser, MD; Melanie P. Hoenig, MD; Robert C. Stanton, MD; Om P. Ganda, MD, MBBS, MACE ; Donald E. Cutlip, MD
3. Diabetes and Bone Health – Harold N. Rosen, MD
4. Future Therapies for Diabetes – Alan C. Moses, MD
II. MICROVASCULAR DISEASE AND DIABETES
1. Screening, Detection and New Advances in the Treatment of Retinopathy – Deborah K. Schlossman, MD
2. Treatment of Renal Disease: Guidance to Blunt the Impact and Slow the Progression – Robert C. Stanton, MD
III. THE DIABETIC FOOT
1. The Foot: Damage Prevention and Treatment Options – John M. Giurini, DPM
2. Peripheral Vascular Disease: Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management – David R. Campbell, MD, FRCS, FACS
3. Evaluating and Treating Neuropathies of Diabetes: 2024 Updates – Patricia E. Greenstein, MBBCh
IV. SPECIAL SESSIONS (1)
1. Strategies to Promote Equity in Diabetes Care – Leonor Fernandez, MD