Health equity, cultural diversity and technology among topics highlighted at ADCES 2022
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Health equity and cultural competency are among the biggest topics to be highlighted at the first in-person Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists annual meeting in 3 years.
ADCES22 will take place Friday to Monday at the Baltimore Convention Center. This year’s annual conference will be the first to convene in-person since 2019 and will include more than 135 sessions across six education tracks: Clinical and Self-Management Care Integration; Diabetes and the Cardiometabolic Continuum; Diabetes in Practice; Inclusive Person-Center Care/Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Leveraging Technology: Devices, Data and Patient-Generated Health Date; and Psychosocial/Behavioral Health. On-site attendees will also have on-demand access to the conference’s three general sessions plus 27 educational sessions beginning Aug. 22 for 60 days.
“Health care professionals, including diabetes care and education specialists, were able to pivot in 2020,” Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, owner of Susan Weiner Nutrition PLLC, Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member and chair of the ADCES planning committee, told Healio. “It’s at a point right now where so much is through telehealth, webinars, hybrid and going back in-person that this meeting could not have come at a better time for sharing our experiences and moving forward with those experiences.”
To ensure the safety of attendees, ADCES has published health and safety guidelines that all attendees, exhibitors, staffers and vendors must follow. Attendees must present a health attestation form when they arrive at the registration area for the conference. According to the form, attendees must be up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccines or test negative for COVID-19 within 48 hours of arrival. While at the conference, participants are asked to follow CDC and WHO recommendations and guidance from the state of Maryland to take preventive actions in the spread of respiratory viruses. Masks are not required, but will be available for attendees who choose to wear one.
Each of the first 3 days of the conference will begin with a general session. The meeting kicks off Friday at 7:30 a.m. EDT with a presentation from keynote speaker Heidi Grant, PhD, director of research and development for learning at EY Americas. Grant will discuss how attendees can improve individual performance as well as team performance in the workplace and avoid common pitfalls of goal setting and execution.
On Saturday at 7:30 a.m. EDT, a moderated panel session will focus on equity in treating people with excess weight. Endocrine Today Editorial Board members Scott Kahan, MD, MPH, director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness in Washington, D.C., and Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, will discuss new research and effective strategies for reducing weight stigma in different populations, how managing excess weight may prevent or delay diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions and how attendees can develop an equity lens to address excess weight in clinical practice.
Another moderated panel session Sunday at 7:30 a.m. will focus on reducing health disparities in diabetes prevention and management among both rural and urban populations. Sherita H. Hill Golden, MD, MHS, FAHA, the Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and vice president and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Andrea Cherrington, MD, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will present research on health disparities and discuss interventions to reduce disparities and improve outcomes for disadvantaged populations.
Other highlights of this year’s meeting include the following:
- At 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Jennifer C. Smith, RD, LD, CDCES, director of lifestyle and nutrition for Integrated Diabetes Services, based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Weiner will discuss the individual use of apps among people with diabetes. The session will focus on the growth of diabetes technology, current and emerging apps, and how technology can be leveraged to promote equitable care for people with diabetes.
- On Saturday at 4:45 p.m., panelists representing five different ethnic groups will discuss the importance of delivering culturally competent care. The five-person panel will discuss their personal journeys toward implementing a plant-based diet while incorporating ethnic foods and how this can help lead to a more culturally inclusive clinical practice.
- In addition to 12 education theater sessions, this year’s meeting includes a series of shorter coffee talk sessions. Coffee talk gives attendees an opportunity to learn about the latest diabetes technology and devices in a shorter format than the education theater sessions. Coffee talk sessions are 20 to 30 minutes long and will take place in the exhibit hall.
“I would encourage everyone to take advantage of the incredible conference and speakers we’ve put together,” Weiner said. “It’s the leading conference in the education, practice pearl-type of sessions. We are very strong this year in technology. But I’m most looking forward to the in-person experience, the nuances that are shared when people present in-person, attending those panel discussions in-person, and I can’t wait to ask questions and to be asked questions.”
The Healio | Endocrine Today staff will provide coverage live from ADCES22, with reports on the sessions, video interviews and more. For more information on the ADCES agenda and registration, visit https://adcesmeeting.org.
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