KU Medical Center Continuing Education

Improving Diabetes Care in Kansas - 2010 Update

Friday–Saturday • October 8–9, 2010

Hyatt Regency Hotel
Wichita, Kan.

Overview

About 170,000 adults in Kansas are currently living with diabetes. Another 113,000 Kansans also have diabetes—but they don’t know it yet—because they have not been tested. About one of every 10 adults in Kansas now suffers from diabetes, and the numbers are growing fast. The population with diabetes is now increasing by one million people each year across the U.S.

About 95 percent of new diabetes cases are Type-2 and are largely preventable. About 86 percent of Kansans with diabetes are overweight, and more than half are clinically obese. If every overweight Kansan lost just 10–20 pounds and kept the weight off, the increase of new cases of diabetes would be slashed by 60 percent.

A team of the state’s leading diabetes experts will discuss these and other timely issues related to diabetes management in Kansas at Improving Diabetes Care in Kansas. They will provide the latest information about diabetes care and share strategies and techniques that have worked for health professionals who deal with diabetes on a daily basis.

Target Audience

This conference is designed for health professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, including physicians, nurses, diabetes educators, dietitians, physical therapists and podiatrists.

Objectives

At the completion of this conference, participants should be able to:

Apply information and tools needed to properly diagnose and manage Type-2 diabetes mellitus in conjunction with their patients.
Discuss a logical treatment progression from one to several oral agents and explain the criteria for introduction of insulin.
Develop successful techniques, strategies and resources to manage the patient with various concerns, including obesity, gestational diabetes and childhood Type-2 diabetes.
Review and apply to their practice new models of care in the management to Type-2 diabetes, including team approaches, group visits, community resources and motivational interviewing to educate patients on the importance of self-management.
Discuss strategies to align and incorporate practice guidelines into patient care to optimize outcomes of Type-2 diabetes therapies.

Acknowledgments

Financial contributions and supporters of this program will be acknowledged in print at the symposium.

Exhibits

Commercial vendors are invited to exhibit at this meeting. Limited exhibit space will be available. Call Monya Floyd at 913-588-4478 or e-mail mfloyd2@kumc.edu for an application or more information.

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