Diabetes and Its Complications | LIVESTREAM

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

EDUCATION TO OPTIMIZE PATIENT CARE AND OUTCOMES
Education is focused on optimizing patient care and outcomes and improving skills in the following areas:

Insulin initiation and intensification: which insulins to choose and why
Understanding the new insulins, glucose monitors, and pumps
Treating people with type 2 diabetes who are not achieving therapeutic goals
Office-based assessment and treatment of comorbidities and complications
Individualizing multifaceted approaches to lifestyle modification and weight management
Personalizing nutrition plans and exercise prescriptions
Cardiovascular risk reduction and care
Optimal management of neuropathies and foot disease
Managing diabetes in high-risk populations, including pregnant patients and the elderly
Understanding the evolving concepts and treatments that will soon impact your day-to-day practice
Communicating with, motivating, and sharing resources with patients
Recognizing social, racial, sexual, and cultural biases in diabetes care and reviewing strategies for achieving equity and addressing disparities
Diabetes and Its Complications
In addition to state-of-the-art approaches to diabetes management, this course provides comprehensive updates for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes comorbidities and complications:

Obesity
Cardiovascular disease
Hypoglycemia
Hyperglycemia
Hypertension
Dyslipidemia
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Kidney disease
Live disease
Peripheral vascular disease
Neuropathies
Pregnancy

PRACTICE CHANGING EDUCATION TAUGHT BY HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY
Our outstanding faculty, world renowned for their clinical, research and teaching achievements are assembled from two of Harvard Medical School's distinguished affiliated institutions: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Joslin Diabetes Center.

Our faculty are committed to delivering the highest-quality educational experience:
Teaching practical, effective clinical reasoning and approaches that enable you to practice state-of-the-art care.
Allowing ample time to interact with faculty and to pose and get answers to your specific questions.
Providing the latest information in an engaging manner and clinically usable context so that you have knowledge you can "take home".

Speakers: Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP, Richard S. Beaser, MD, Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, FRCP (London), Roeland J. Middlebeek, MD, Frank J. Domino, MD, Alan C. Moses, MD, FACP, Anne Peters, MD, Alissa R. Segal, PharmD, CDCES, CDTC, FCCP, Souheil W. Adra, MD, FACS, ABOM, Gillian Arathuzik, RD, LDN, CDCES, Florence M. Brown, MD, David R. Campbell, MD, FRCS, FACS, Donald E. Cutlip, MD, Jody Dushay, MD, MMSc, Leonor Fernandez, MD, Jason L. Gaglia, MD, MMSc, Om P. Ganda, MD, MBBS, MACE, A. Reshad Garan, MD, MS, FACC, Michael C. Gavin, MD, MPH, FACC, John M. Giurini, DPM, Patricia E. Greenstein, MBBCh, Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE, Melanie P. Hoenig, MD, Erin K. Martin, RN, CDCES, Medha N. Munshi, MD, Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD, Edward M. Phillips, MD, Harold N. Rosen, MD, Deborah K. Schlossman, MD, Robert C. Stanton, MD, Zachary H. Taxin, MD