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Improving Care for People with Diabetes Using Expert Resources

This teleseminar was presented live on April 24, 2008
Event code: 13527

Learning Objectives:

Discuss the latest therapeutic recommendations for managing people with diabetes and ways to implement comprehensive care
Determine why people with diabetes may not be at their target goals and how health care professionals can help these patients
List the advantages and disadvantages of the newest medications used to treat people with diabetes
Describe a new method for reporting blood glucose levels
Identify the National Diabetes Education Program resources for patients and health care professionals and learn how to use these resources to help your patients.

Presenters:

Lawrence Blonde, MD, FACP, FACE, chair of the National Diabetes Education Program and Director of the Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and Associate Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Joanne Gallivan, MS, RD, director of the National Diabetes Education Program, a joint initiative of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Note: The views expressed by the speakers are their own and do not necessarily represent the views or any position of the ADA. Speakers are required to disclose personal and professional interests that could potentially affect their research and/or give the appearance of a conflict of interest.

CPE Level 2
Suggested Learning Need Codes: 5190, 4040, 3060, 5460, 5460. 5390

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