PROGRAM
Diabetes is Primary® 2024
OVERVIEW
Diabetes Is Primary® (DIP) helps primary care professionals (PCPs) on the front lines of diabetes care master knowledge and strategies to improve patient outcomes. DIP is based on the ADA’s Standards of Care in Diabetes (SOC)—the gold standard in diabetes treatment. These guidelines, updated annually, ensure that patients receive up-to-date, evidence-based care. Participants who complete this course will be prepared to put the latest evidence-based guidelines for diabetes care into practice.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
BENEFITS & CREDITS
EXPIRATION DATE
November 30, 2024
DOMAIN 1
Comprehensive Diagnosis and Preventing Diabetes
Learn how to recognize the clinical characteristics and diagnostic criteria for various types of diabetes, including type 1, type 2, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, maturity-onset diabetes of the young, and gestational diabetes. Explore the risk of prediabetes progressing to diabetes and the factors that influence this progression.
DOMAIN 2
Medication Management
Learn about noninsulin glucose-lowering medications and their mechanisms of action and how to determine the most appropriate noninsulin glucose-lowering regimen based on individualized factors. Discover the current recommendations for insulin use in diabetes and identify appropriate indications for initiating insulin. Explore how to differentiate insulin types by their action profiles and clinical characteristics.
DOMAIN 3
Comprehensive Diabetes Care and Transition Management
Learn evidence-based strategies to managing complications associated with diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy and peripheral neuropathy. Identify obstacles and unique challenges hindering the seamless transfer of patients from both inpatient to outpatient settings and pediatric to adult health care settings. Discover the unique challenges faced by older patients with diabetes, including financial constraints, cognitive impairments, and the impact of Medicare on diabetes management.
DOMAIN 4
Empowering Diabetes Self-Care
Learn how to provide dietary guidance, including carbohydrate counting techniques and meal planning strategies. Explore the key emotional aspects of the diabetes diagnosis and its impact on engagement in diabetes self-management behaviors. Discover evidence-based strategies for empowering individuals to make effective behavioral changes in diabetes management.
Alison Evert, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES
Diabetes Nutrition Educator
University of Washington
Hope Feldman, CRNP
Family Nurse Practitioner
Family Practice and Counseling Network
Susan Guzman, PhD
Director of Clinical Education
Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Chlodys E. Johnstone, PA-C, CDCES
Associate Director of Education and Quality Service
UC Healthcare Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center
Kevin Miller, DO
Co-founder
Diabetes Nation
Diabetes and Obesity Care
Joshua J. Neumiller, PharmD, CDCES, FADCES, FASCP
Professor of Pharmacotherapy
Washington State University
Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Catherine Price, MDMedical DirectorAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Diabetes and Endocrinology Center
Nuha El Sayed, MD, MM Sc.
Vice President, Healthcare Improvement
American Diabetes Association
Alissa R. Segal, PharmD, CDCES, CDTC
Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Nykkia Sellers, MSN, FNP, BC-ADM, CDCES
Director and Owner
Diabetes Care & Wellness
This program is supported, in part, by an unrestricted educational grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc.
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