OVERVIEW

Elevate your diabetes care expertise with our Diabetes Is Primary® 2024 Webinar Series—an online learning collaborative designed exclusively for primary care professionals. Dive deep into the complexities of diabetes management through three live, interactive 90-minute roundtable discussions.

In this series, you’ll have the chance to engage directly with leading experts as they dissect real-life case studies, highlighting what went wrong and, most importantly, how to improve outcomes. Each session provides actionable strategies to help you implement the latest Standards of Care in Diabetes (SOC) guidelines in your practice, ensuring you can offer optimal care to the people you see.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Assess the risks of diabetes progression. 
• Implement lifestyle management strategies for the prevention and delay of diabetes.  
• Analyze comprehensive diabetes management strategies utilizing patient-centered care principles to optimize medication and complication management in a primary care context. 
• Implement strategies to overcome barriers in transitions of care within a primary care setting. 
• Develop tailored communication and diabetes education strategies for diverse patient populations, considering cultural factors in primary care patient demographics. 

BENEFITS

• Participate in live, interactive discussions.
• Gain practical tips to enhance your diabetes care approach.
• Earn FREE CE credits per webinar.

CREDITS

For each webinar, you will earn 1.5 free continuing education credits (CME, ABIM-MOC, ANCC, APA, ASWB, CDR, COP, and AAPA). 

EXPIRATION DATE

March 31, 2025

NOTE: Can’t attend live? No problem! All webinars will be available on-demand after the live sessions, so you can access the content at your convenience.

NOTE: Can’t attend live? No problem! All webinars will be available on-demand after the live sessions, so you can access the content at your convenience.

Maureen Chomko, RD, CDCES 

Registered Dietitian
Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist 

Neighborcare Health, Rainier Beach Clinic 

Seattle, WA 

Maureen Chomko, RDN, CDCES has been working in primary care in Seattle for 12 years. At the University of Washington Neighborhood Clinics, she partnered with the UW Diabetes Care Center to develop diabetes education class series at three primary care clinics in the greater King County area. Her publication on this collaboration to improve patient access to diabetes education received a Publications Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. For the past 8 years, she has worked at Neighborcare Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center, where she provides diabetes management and counseling for those suffering from significant health inequities. She has worked with the American Diabetes Association on patient education materials for diabetes, and has written extensively on nutrition therapy for adults with type 2 diabetes in textbooks from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).

Emily Matney, RN CDCES 

Program Coordinator, Diabetes Education 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist 

Winston-Salem, NC

Emily Matney is the Diabetes Education Program Quality Coordinator for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. She oversees inpatient and outpatient DSMES services at locations including Endocrinology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Primary Care and has worked as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist for 7 years. 

Christopher Jones, MD 

Medical Director for Diabetes Care 

Intermountain Health 

South Jordan, UT

Dr. Chris Jones is a native of Utah who attended the University of Utah Medical School and went to residency at Penn State Geisinger. He has practiced general internal medicine and specialty diabetes medicine at Intermountain Healthcare for 20 years. He is currently the Medical Director for Diabetes Care and the Associate Medical Director for Internal Medicine in that organization. Additionally, he has a position at the American Diabetes Association where he works with a team to create education and opportunity for all primary care clinicians to excel in their diabetes knowledge and skills.

Andrew Welch, DO 

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine 

University of Cincinnati Division of Endocrinology 

Cincinnati, OH

Andrew Welch, DO, is a compassionate and dedicated endocrinologist who believes in a patient-centered approach to care. Inspired by the words of William J. Mayo, "The needs of the patient come first," Dr. Welch envisions a world where people with diabetes can live normal lives, free from the burdens of constant monitoring and treatment. As an individual living with type 1 diabetes himself, he has a unique understanding of the challenges faced by his patients and is highly motivated to find innovative solutions. With a focus on diabetes care, Dr. Welch specializes in the development and implementation of leading-edge diabetes technology. He is actively involved in clinical trials related to continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery systems. 

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This program is funded in part by the Helmsley Charitable Trust.