Pre-diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

With Mississippi leading the nation in the diabetes epidemic, the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi is taking a proactive stand to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals with the knowledge that they need to effectively manage their patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Diabetes affects over 372, 000 Mississippians with approximately one-third of that number (124,000) as yet undiagnosed. Pre-diabetes has emerged as a huge health problem throughout Mississippi – the number of adults at risk for developing type 2 diabetes is estimated at over 800,000. Information on translating evidence-based research into clinical practice, managing pre-diabetes, adults and children with type 1 or type 2 diabetes plus utilizing appropriate medical nutritional therapy for these populations is invaluable to Mississippi physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

The  annual continuing medical education (CME) symposium, Managing the Diabetes Spectrum in the Pediatric and Adult Populations: Pre-diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes sponsored by the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, will take place on March 2, 2012 at the Embassy Suites in Ridgeland. The CME conference is designed to provide physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, dietitians and other healthcare professionals with a greater understanding of quality care, diabetes prevention strategies, current topics in diabetes management and the latest recommendations for medical nutrition therapy. Speakers include Dr. William Cefalu,  Section Chief, Joint Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Program of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine/Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and  Douglas L. Manship, Sr., Professor of Diabetes at Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University System in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Cefalu will discuss identifying pre-diabetes, pre-diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and individualizing therapy in type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Stephen Ponder is a pediatric endocrinologist from Odessa, Texas and on faculty at the Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute in Milpitas, Calif. He has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 45 years and will discuss diabetes in the pediatric population – diagnosing and differentiating between type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and teens, treatment algorithms for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, use of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) and insulin pump therapy as well as transitioning from adolescent to adult diabetes care.

Marion Franz, RD, CDE is a nutrition/health consultant with Nutrition Concepts by Franz, Inc. She is an author for the American Diabetes Association nutrition recommendations, was editor of the American Association for Diabetes Educators Core Curriculum for Diabetes 4th and 5th editions and is the author of several books. Ms. Franz will discuss medical nutritional therapy for patients with diabetes including the latest data on diabetes and Vitamin D.

Educational objectives for the symposium include pathogenesis and clinical presentation of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents, assessing readiness for insulin pump use, sociologic contributors and basic preventive interventions to address childhood obesity, identifying risk factors associated with the pre-diabetic state, differentiating among available and emerging therapies for type 2 diabetes particularly in those patients with complicated presentations such as kidney impairment or in the elderly, and evaluating the effects of  lifestyle intervention on components of the metabolic syndrome.

For more information on the CME program, please contact the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi or visit www.msdiabetes.org

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