OVERVIEW

Despite the availability of effective medical interventions and therapies for type 2 diabetes, their utilization remains limited. Beyond the Basics aims to:

• Increase competency in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and its complications
• Improve the care of individuals living with type 2 diabetes
• Improve participants’ ability to differentiate and select optimal treatments for type 2 diabetes based on the mechanisms of action, safety, and efficacy of current treatment options
• Discern how newer options may help individuals living with type 2 diabetes achieve targeted outcomes

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recall how to intensify therapy for people with type 2 diabetes.
• Classify treatment options, including newer glucose-lowering therapies, to reduce morbidity and mortality in individuals living with type 2 diabetes.
• Recognize steps in treatment plans based on guideline-directed therapy to support diverse patient populations in achieving target outcomes.

COURSE TOPICS

Beyond the Basics: Unraveling Challenging Type 2 Diabetes Cases 

• Optimizing Health Amidst Multiple Comorbidities
  • Launches: May 29 | Faculty: Richard Pratley, MD
    
    
• Maneuvering the Challenges of Obesity and Weight Management
  • Launches: June 5 | Faculty: Davida Kruger, NP 
    
    
• Examining the Prevalence of Cardiometabolic Diseases and Conditions
  • Launches: June 12 | Faculty: Curtis Triplitt, PharmD, CDE 
    
    
• Navigating Stressors and Social Determinants of Health
  • Launches: June 19 | Faculty: Anne Peters, MD

Target Audience

• Endocrinologists
• Diabetologists
• Advanced practice nurse practitioners
• Obesity specialists

• Other members of the diabetes care team who support people living with type 2 diabetes

Credits

• Upon completion of all four courses,  you will earn two free continuing education credits (CME, ABIM-MOC, ACEP, ANCC, CDR, COP).

FACULTY

Anne Peters, MD

Director, USC Westside Center for Diabetes​

Profession, Keck School of Medicine of USC​

Director, USC Clinical Diabetes Programs

Curtis Triplitt, PharmD, CDE 

Associate Professor/Clinical ​

Department of Medicine​

Division of Diabetes​

UT Health

Davida Kruger, NP 

Nurse Practitioner​

Division of Endocrinology​

Henry Ford Health System

Richard Pratley, MD

Medical Director at the AdventHealth Diabetes Institute, Senior Investigator, Diabetes Program Lead at the Translational Research Institute 

PROGRAM
Beyond the Basics: Unraveling Challenging Type 2 Diabetes Cases 

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This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly.