Comprehensive Diabetes Continuing Education to Optimize Patient Care
For those of you who provide care to individuals with—or at risk for—diabetes, managing the complex interplay of comorbidities and complications can be particularly challenging. Obesity, a major contributor to the development and progression of diabetes and many of its associated conditions, plays a critical role in patient outcomes and requires targeted, evidence-based strategies for effective management.
With these challenges in mind, Harvard Medical School faculty have developed this CME program, Diabetes and Obesity: Implications and Complications, to deliver the latest clinical updates, practice guidance, and evidence-based strategies aimed at optimizing the care of patients with diabetes and obesity.
* Date of Release: October 22–25, 2025
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, how it relates to the development and progression of key diabetes comorbidities, and how this knowledge informs prevention and treatment strategies.
- Identify opportunities to improve clinical skills and office-based care systems to optimize lifestyle interventions for diabetes, obesity, and related conditions.
- Describe the implications and impact of the latest evidence-based expert treatment guidelines for lifestyle, pharmacologic, and technologic management of diabetes and its comorbidities.
- Recognize how evolving cardiovascular and renal outcomes trial data for antidiabetes medications can be applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetes-related comorbidities.
- Apply current preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic approaches to managing diabetes-related complications affecting the eyes, nerves, peripheral vascular system and foot, liver, bone, and hypoglycemia, including care considerations for special populations such as older adults, pregnant patients, and hospitalized individuals.
- Identify and overcome common clinical practice barriers related to patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare systems.
- Communicate effectively with individuals with diabetes, their families, and healthcare team members to support a collaborative, patient-centered approach to health promotion, disease prevention, and chronic disease management.
DIABETES AND OBESITY: IMPLICATIONS AND COMPLICATIONS 2025








