Precision Medicine in Diabetes

November 5, 2021
The focus of this virtual conference is to discuss precision medicine in atypical diabetes and in pregnancy, research updates regarding β cells in type 1 diabetes, and discuss therapeutic agents for those with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. These variables relate to what one needs in order to overcome challenges related to the diagnosis of diabetes.
 
The goal of this activity is to provide practitioners and scientists with a comprehensive overview of the depth and breadth of clinical and scientific endocrinology. November is National Diabetes Month and it is important to highlight and review evidence-based diabetes medicine.
 
 
Kovler Diabetes Center logo
This activity is brought to you by the Kovler Diabetes Center.
 Learn more by visiting their website here.

Target Audience

This activity has been designed for physicians, scientists, nurse practitioners, nurses, diabetes educators, students, and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the scientific advances in diabetes diagnosis, management, and treatment.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Identify precision medicine in atypical diabetes and opportunities to enroll patients to qualifying research studies;
  • Recall the fundamentals of monogenic diabetes;
  • Discuss the role of β cells in type 1 diabetes;
  • State therapeutic agents that will benefit people with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease;
  • Identify key treatments in precision medicine for diabetes in pregnancy.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Karen Wu
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
312-451-6250
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Participation
Event starts: 
11/05/2021 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
11/05/2021 - 10:00am
Activity opens: 
09/15/2021
Activity expires: 
02/05/2022



Agenda subject to change.

Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Explore the University of Chicago Kovler Diabetes Center website.
 
Questions?
Please contact Karen Wu via e-mail.
 

The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.

ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at via email at kwu3@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

COURSE DIRECTOR
  Louis Philipson, MD, PhD
  Professor of Medicine
  Director, Kovler Diabetes Center
 
 
 

Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.

Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.

Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Health Professional Credit
Other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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JOINING THE CONFERENCE
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