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This year’s American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting will come to Houston, and organizers plan to highlight the Texas city’s size, diversity and “diabetes challenge” as an opportunity for diabetes educators to better engage with patients at the population health level.

Lorena Drago

“Houston is one of the cities participating in the Cities Changing Diabetes initiative,” Lorena Drago, RD, MS, CDN, CDE, chair of the 2019 planning committee and senior associate director of ambulatory care nutrition programs at Lincoln Hospital in Forest Hills, New York, told Endocrine Today. “The initiative has three different elements — mapping, sharing and acting. Stakeholders gather information about each city and what is working, the knowledge gaps and future opportunities. Another piece is collaboration — how agencies and communities can come together and promote diabetes awareness and care. It complements what we are doing because the upcoming AADE strategic plan that will be revealed at the conference focuses on how we as diabetes educators can position ourselves to play a much more central role. We will hear about short-term and long-term measures where we can have more of an impact and become managers of health, not just diabetes-centric.”

The annual meeting, taking place from Friday to Monday, will bring together more than 4,500 nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, nurse practitioners and diabetes educators to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Attendees can choose from 110 continuing education sessions covering nine learning tracks, including nutrition and obesity, insulin dosing, foot care, oral health, reimbursement strategies and diabetes social media advocacy, or DSMA. The meeting will also feature more than 200 poster presentations and approximately 200 exhibitors.

Drago said the meeting offers attendees a chance to connect with colleagues and get the latest updates in the diabetes space.

 

This year’s American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting will come to Houston, and organizers plan to highlight the Texas city’s size, diversity and “diabetes challenge” as an opportunity for diabetes educators to better engage with patients at the population health level.

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“What this meeting offers is a great opportunity,” Drago said. “It is a multidisciplinary meeting that gathers professionals from different disciplines, but we are all connected to diabetes management and diabetes care. It’s a place that is a great equalizer. We are all there to care for the person with diabetes. At AADE, there is a focus on education that transcends science because it becomes applicable to what we do, the care of the patient.”

AADE is also focusing on peer support resources, Drago said, and a live peer-supported communities corner will be on-site.

“The peer-supported communities corner is something I am really excited about,” Drago said. “There are also some sessions on peer support. The corner will be a great way to introduce all the different diabetes support groups with diabetes educators and establish relationships that will mutually benefit the educators and the community.”

Additional offerings round out the program:

• Kellie Rodriguez, RN, MSN, MBA, CDE, director of the global diabetes program for Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, will speak on AADE’s vision for the future and the opportunity to work within a population health framework on Friday.
• There will be sessions on special populations with talks on diabetes management in pregnancy and breastfeeding (Saturday), diabetes management in people undergoing cancer treatment (Saturday), cultural and health literacy considerations with diabetes (Sunday), and optimizing diabetes education in deaf and hard of hearing populations (Monday).
• Multiple sessions will focus on nutrition in addressing eating plans in the real world, low carbohydrate diets, food access, supplements and micronutrients, and the revised and updated American Diabetes Association Nutrition Therapy Consensus Report.

“This is going to be a fabulous meeting, but of course I am biased,” Drago said. “There are wonderful sessions. Sessions about hypoglycemia, sessions on the cost of insulin, on medication options, what is new and what is on the horizon, and on the importance of using continuous glucose monitoring.”

The Healio News and Endocrine Today staff will provide coverage from AADE 2019, with reports on the sessions, on-site video interviews and much more. For more information on the AADE agenda and registration, visit www.AADEMeeting.org. – by Regina Schaffer

For more information:

Cities Changing Diabetes initiative. Available at: http://www.citieschangingdiabetes.com/cities/houston.html. Accessed Aug. 7, 2019.

Disclosure: Drago is chair of the planning committee for AADE 2019.