Diabetes and Obesity Patient Centered Management 2023

This is Oakstone course

This unique online video CME course — a response to the burden of diseases driven by obesity and diabetes — is designed to help you manage these two conditions holistically, with an eye toward the health of both your patients and their communities.

Expert faculty from Harvard Medical School and other leading institutions guide you through evidence-based patient assessment, methods to support behavioral modification in different care settings, and tailoring of both medical and procedural therapeutics for those struggling with metabolic disease.

Diabetes and Obesity: Patient-Centered Management is available online so you can earn continuing medical education credits whenever, wherever. It will help you to better:

• Identify and integrate current therapeutic options for obesity and diabetes
• Apply current and recommended guidelines
• Deliver equitable care with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, sexual preference, and gender orientation

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Review and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice
• Apply current/recommended guidelines in clinical practice
• Perform up-to-date techniques to diagnose complex clinical problems
• Identify/integrate current therapeutic options for obesity and diabetes
• Deliver equitable care with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, sexual preference and gender orientation

Target Audience

Primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, specialty physicians, diabetologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists, bariatric surgeons, pediatricians, internists, dieticians, nutritionists, social workers.

 

TOPICS / SPEAKERS

 

Laying the Groundwork: Facilitating Behavioral Change and Wellness

1. Keynote Lecture – Exploring the Link and Defining the Challenge – Diabetes and Obesity – Caroline M. Apovian, MD, FACN, FACP, FTOS, DABOM

2. Science of Behavior Change – Michael Vallis, BSc (Hns), MA, PhD R Psych

3. Fundamentals of Nutrition Therapy – Nancy L. Oliveira, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Behavioral Change and Wellness – Caroline M. Apovian, MD, FACN, FACP, FTOS, DABOM – Moderator

 

Talking to Your Patient About Eating

1. Maladaptive Patterns of Eating in Individuals with Obesity and Diabetes – Marc C. O’Meara, RD, LD, CDE

2. Just Tell Me What to Eat and I Will Do it This Time – Moving From Diet to Durable Lifestyle Change – Megan A. McCrory, PhD

3. When Should I Eat – Exploring Whether the Timing of Meals is Important for Weight Control – Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MASt, MSc, MS

4. But I Have Diabetes – Will This Diet Work for Me? – Tailoring Healthy Eating to the Person with Diabetes – Melinda D. Maryniuk, RDN, MEd, CDCES, FADA

5. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – All About Eating – Nancy L. Oliveira, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES – Moderator

 

Targeted Behavior Change: Prevention

1. Let’s Talk Prevention – Childhood Obesity – Amy D. Fleischman, MD, MMSc

2. Cardiovascular Disease in Obesity and T2D – Evidence and Strategies for Prevention – Jorge Plutzky, MD

3. Impacting the Life Course – Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Women with Prior GDM – Ellen Seely, MD

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Let’s Talk Prevention – Caroline M. Apovian, MD, FACN, FACP, FTOS, DABOM – Moderator

5. Motivational Interviewing – Joji Suzuki, MD

 

What Not to Miss: Comorbidities and Unique Patient Characteristics

1. Keynote – Beyond the Gut – The Impact of Dysmetabolism Across the Lifespan – Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD

2. Comprehensive Assessment of People with Diabetes and Obesity – Marie E. McDonnell, MD

3. Effective Use of Cardiovascular Imaging to Evaluate CV Risk – Ron Blankenstein, MD

4. The Spectrum of Kidney Disorders in Obesity and Diabetes – David B. Mount, MD, FRCPC

5. Evaluating Sleep in Obesity and Diabetes – Lawrence J. Epstein, MD

6. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Comprehensive Multi-Morbidity Management – Vanita Aroda, MD – Moderator

7. Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) – An Update on Screening and Treatment – Kenneth Cusi, MD, FACP, FACE

8. Psychiatric Complications in Diabetes – Ashwini Nadkarni, MD

9. Advancing Equity in Diabetes Management – The Role of Racial Disparities in Outcomes – How to Address in the Clinic – Joshua Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA

10. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Caring for the Whole Patient – Expanded Perspectives – Vanita Aroda, MD – Moderator

11. Recognizing Atypical Diabetes – Miriam Udler, MD, PhD

12. Lipodystrophy – How to Recognize in your Practice and How to Assess and Treat – Elif Oral, MD

13. Managing the Patient with Type 1 Diabetes and Obesity – Adriana Gonzalez, MD

14. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Recognizing and Assessing Unique Presentations – Vanita Aroda, MD – Moderator

 

Key Technologies in the Toolbox

1. The Big Reveal – Use of Professional CGM in the Office to Identify Important Glycemic Patterns – Anna L. Goldman, MD

2. Self-management with CGM – Selecting the Right Patient for Optimal Benefit – Charles McKitrick, MSN, RN, CDCES

3. Would My Patient Do Better On An Insulin Pump – Insulin Pump Therapy in the Patient with Obesity – Devin W. Steenkamp, MD

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Technology – Enhanced Person – Centered Care – Vanita Aroda, MD – Moderator

 

Patient-Tailored Therapeutics for Managing the Patient with Diabetes and Obesity

1. Keynote – The Continuum of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes – Revisiting Treatment Goals – Vanita Aroda, MD

 

Prescribing for Success: Medical Therapy for Weight and Metabolic Control

1. Weight Impact of Medications Commonly Prescribed in the Care of the Patient with Metabolic Disease – Louis J. Aronne, MD, FACP, FTOS, DABOM

2. A Closer Look at GLP-1 Ras for Metabolic Control in Patients with Diabetes – Carol H. Wysham, MD

3. A Closer Look at SGLT2 Inhibitors for Metabolic Control – Lee-Shing Chang, MD

4. Why, When, and How Should Obesity Medications Be Prescribed – Caroline M. Apovian, MD, FACN, FACP, FTOS, DABOM

5. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Procedural Approaches to Metabolic Conditions – Marie E. McDonnell, MD – Moderator

 

Procedural Therapies for Metabolic Disease

1. Effects of Metabolic Surgeries on Obesity and Diabetes – Ali Tavakkoli, MD, FRCS, FACS

2. Patient Selection and the Peri-op Process for Metabolic Surgery – Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS, FASMBS

3. The Current State of Non-Surgical Metabolic Procedures – The Future is Now – Christopher Thompson, MD, MSc, FAGA, GACG, GASGE, FJGS

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Prescribing for Success – Marie E. McDonnell, MD – Moderator

 

Management Challenges After Bariatric Surgery

1. Management Challenges after Bariatric Surgery – Postoperative Nutritional Management – Malcolm K. Robinson, MD

2. Glycemic Challenges After Metabolic Surgery – Mary Elizabeth Patti, MD

3. Weight Regain Following Bariatric Surgery – Nawfal W. Istfan, MD, PhD

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Long-term Management Challenges Following Bariatric Surgery – Marie E. McDonnell, MD – Moderator

 

Achieving Long-term Success: Barriers and Tools

1. Adherence to Therapy in Chronic Disease – Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD

2. Self-management Technologies and mHealth Adherence – Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go? – Julie C. Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD

3. Connected Health and the Future of Chronic Disease Management – Naomi Fisher, MD

4. Expert Panel – Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered – Achieving Long-term Success – Marie E. McDonnell, MD – Moderator

 

Date of Original Release: April 1, 2023