August 13, Saturday
A panel will share how they used their experiences as diabetes educators to carve out new niches and jobs that expanded their impact as healthcare professionals. Read more
As the obesity epidemic continues to grow, with two out of every three Americans either overweight or obese, a Sunday morning session will look at how the healthcare world’s shift to seeing obesity as a chronic disease affects both clinical care and policy. Read more
Dr. Martinez is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago who for four years has worked to understand how diet impacts gut microbiota—the bacterial communities present in the gut—and how that, in turn, affects metabolism and the development of obesity and diabetes. Read more
Marci Butcher, RD, LN, CDE, will receive this year’s Diabetes Educator of the Year Award for her decades of service to educators and clients across Montana and other western states. Read more
Dr. Peters, professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Programs, has focused her research on testing new approaches for diagnosing and treating diabetes and developing systems of care to improve outcomes in people with diabetes. Read more
Dr. Kravitz is Coordinator of Exercise Science at the University of New Mexico. He has been involved in physical activity and exercise for three decades and has spent many of those years taking a greater interest in special populations, including those who are overweight, obese and have type 2 diabe… Read more
Dr. Bereolos is a clinical psychologist and certified diabetes educator who has focused on working with adults who have chronic medical conditions, with a special emphasis on diabetes. She has been working in this area since the early 2000s and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1992. Read more