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PONDER: Getting off to a good start: initial care of any patient with diabetes.

Describe how to foster an attitude of empowerment and realistic expectations in a patient or family of a child with newly diagnosed diabetes

List 4 essential clinical tasks to accomplish with a newly diagnosed diabetes patient

Identify four common health care provider behaviors that discourage patient adherence with diabetes self-care

SCHREINER: Injectable medications: What’s new? What’s old?

Explore the non-insulin injectables to treat diabetes.

Review new insulin products and delivery systems.

Discuss the clinical aspects and patient education implications of using selected injectables

SOLOWIEJCZYK: The primary care approach to help patients and families better cope with a diagnosis of diabetes (of any type)

Identification of life context issues, psychosocial issues & impact on coping and management at time of diagnosis.

What is ‘patient empowerment’ and how does it work in the relationship between the diabetes clinician and the patient with diabetes?

Discuss the clinician’s role in identifying potential barriers/difficulties for effective patient coping & management AND working with patient and family to identify and implement coping strategies.

SCHREINER: The Ominous Octet as the type 2 diabetes "Rosetta Stone"

Outline the eight defects contributing to type 2 diabetes.

Consider the clinical tools for differentiating the ominous octet.

Discuss strategies to treat the eight physiologic challenges of type 2 diabetes.

SOLOWIEJCZYK: What primary care clinicians can learn from ‘motivational interviewing’ to help persons with diabetes improve their self-care.

Identify 2 ways in which ‘motivational interviewing’ differs from traditional methods of counseling or therapy.

Implementing a patient empowerment strategy based on MI principles

Define “rolling with resistance”.

SCHREINER: What’s new in the pharmaceutical pipeline for treating type 2 diabetes

Discuss the road from idea to FDA approval for new drugs.

Describe the latest drug therapies under FDA review to treat diabetes.

Review recent FDA warnings and cautions for currently approved diabetes drugs.

SOLOWIEJCZYK: Recognizing and managing depression and burnout in persons with diabetes

Differentiate major depression from ‘diabetes burnout’

Identify 2 treatment modalities that have proven to be helpful in treating depression in persons with diabetes.

List 2 physical symptoms and 2 mental symptoms of clinical depression.

PONDER: Are insulin pumps a panacea for poor metabolic control in diabetes?

Discuss the indications and contraindications for use of the insulin pump

Describe the common features of modern insulin pumps and how they can improve glycemic control if properly applied

Discuss reasons for poor outcomes with insulin pumps and methods to avoid them

SOLOWIEJCZYK: Family Dynamics & the impact on Metabolic control and management behavior

Describe Parameters of Assessment for Family Functioning in families with a member with diabetes T1 T2, Adults & Children.

Identify 2 primary examples of ‘dysfunctional parenting and couples/family coping that contribute to mismanagement & ineffective coping in both children and adults.

Describe the Family Approach to Diabetes Management 3 principles of Effective Parenting/Principles of Couples Functioning - impact on metabolic control and using the Family Approach to Diabetes management to develop and implement effective clinical strategies to improve clinical outcomes.

SCHREINER: Delivering diabetes self-management education in the era of self-care

Discuss how to deliver diabetes education services for patients in a primary care practice.

Use the chronic care model as a tool for building a diabetes team.

Describe the role of social media and the internet in supporting diabetes care behaviors.

PONDER: Sugar Surfing 1: The role of dynamic diabetes management strategies in diabetes

Discuss the indication for use of real-time continuous glucose monitoring

Compare and contrast static versus dynamic diabetes self-care tactics

List 5 false idols of diabetes self-care

Describe why dynamic diabetes management is the future of optimal diabetes outcomes

PONDER: Sugar Surfing 2: Basic moves and benefits

Describe common type 1 diabetes scenarios which benefit from dynamic diabetes management

List the commonly used therapeutic maneuvers in Sugar Surfing

List 3 secondary benefits to long term use of a continuous glucose monitoring device

PONDER: Common diabetes dilemmas

Discuss frequently seen diabetes dilemmas and their approach to management

Discuss the concept of carbohydrate counting and its role in diabetes self-management

Describe the clinical approach to the patient with a double-digit hemoglobin A1C

SCHREINER/SOLOWIEJCZYK: From stem cells to the artificial pancreas: Hot topics in Diabetes Research 2016

Describe the path to a biological cure for diabetes.

Discuss current clinical research strategies to augment beta cell activity or prevent their loss

Discuss the current status of the artificial pancreas

Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.

Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDE

Professor of Pediatrics, Texas A&M University School of Medicine

www.stephenponderMD 

Dr. Ponder is Professor of Pediatrics with 50 years of personal experience living with type 1 diabetes. He has been a Board Certified Pediatric Endocrinologist since 1990 and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) since 1989. 

He directs one of the largest residential diabetes camping program in the US (26 years) and has worked with children and teens with diabetes for over 35 years. 

Dr. Ponder has served as Chair of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators (NCBDE) and participated in many local, state and national child advocacy organizations over the past 25 years. He is the author of the 2015 book "Sugar Surfing" (www.sugarsurfing.com). 

He is internationally known in the field of type 1 diabetes management and has published basic science and clinical research studies regarding type 1 diabetes and co-morbid conditions. He has spoken nationally and internationally on type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children in addition to childhood obesity. He lives in Texas and is married with 3 adult children. 

Barbara J. Schreiner, PhD, APRN, CPLP, CDE, BC-ADM 

Joe Solowiejczyk, RN MSW CDE

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