Making the Invisible Visible
May 3, 2025
Springfield, Massachusetts

Activity description: Learners will identify strategies to address patient-specific challenges with diabetes care that may go unnoticed in typical practice.

Target audience: This activity is designed for individuals or groups of diabetes care and education specialists including Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions.

Requirements for successful completion: For successful completion, participants are required to attend the full activity, and complete and submit the program evaluation at the conclusion of the educational event. Your Statement of Credit will be issued upon submission of the evaluation form. Pharmacists must provide their date of birth (MMDD) and NABP ePID to receive credit. Pharmacist learners who fail to provide this information will not receive credit for this activity. Please check your NABP profile within 45 days of this activity to make sure your credits were uploaded. Per the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board, nurse practitioners are eligible to claim continuing education contact hours from ANCC

Disclosure and Mitigation of Relevant Conflicts of Interest: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) requires anyone in a position to affect or control continuing education content (e.g., authors, presenters, and program planners) to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. It is the responsibility of ADCES to mitigate and disclose all relevant conflicts of interest. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of the presentation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among education activity planners and faculty are as follows:

All identified relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

Speakers

Katelyn Parsons, PharmD, BCACP – Abbott: Medical Grant Funding
Stephanie Darley, PharmD, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Taylor Maggi, RN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Mariah Collins CLC – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Kelsey Cordero – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Cecilia Lozier, MD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Lauren Sieracki, PharmD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Planners

Katelyn Parsons, PharmD, BCACP – Abbott: Medical Grant Funding
Michael See, MS, CDCES, ACSM-CEP, NBC-HWC – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Amy Guadagnoli, CDCES, MSN – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Jennifer Newman, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES – Insulet: Consultant
Judith Pentedemos, APRN, BC, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Content Reviewers

Eileen Ward, PharmD, BCACP, TTS – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Christine Zaveson, RN, MSN, PHN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Activity Agenda

Date:                   Saturday, May 3, 2025

Time:                   8:30-9:00 AM    Registration, Refreshments, and Networking

9:00-9:45 AM    The Dynamic Duo: Pharmacists and Educators Seeing the Invisible in Diabetes Care – Stephanie Darley, PharmD, CDCES and Taylor Maggi, RN, CDCES

9:45-10:30 AM Discovering Food Insecurity and Opportunities for Community Collaboration through Women, Infants, and Children Program – Mariah Collins CLC and Kelsey Cordero

10:30-11:00 AM Networking and Exhibit Time

11:00-12:00 PM Atypical Presentations: Unmasking the Complexity in the Clinical Care of Diabetes – Cecilia Lozier, MD

12:00-1:00 PM  Lunch, Networking, and Exhibit Time

1:00-1:45 PM     Empowering Diabetes Management: Making Glucose Levels Visible Through Continuous Glucose Monitoring – Lauren Sieracki, PharmD

1:45-2:30 PM     Unveiling the Psychological Impact: Strategies to Identify and Reduce Diabetes Distress – Katelyn Parsons, PharmD, BCACP

2:30-2:45 PM     Closing Remarks

Location:            

Western New England University
Center for the Sciences and Pharmacy, 2^nd floor
1215 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119

Accreditation:

In support of improving patient care, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education The Universal Activity Number is JA4008258-0000-25-071-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 4.0 contact hour(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 4.0 ANCC contact hours.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 4.0 contact hours. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the activity concludes.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 4.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR): CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 4.0 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR prefession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietietics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists: To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (http://www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Other Health Professionals: It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.