The Diabetes Summit is a four-hour intensive training on diabetes designed for clinicians, pharmacists, quality improvement professionals, and health center management. At the Summit, we’ll discuss all things diabetes: from patient-first care to new methods of affordable treatments that combine old-school prescriptions with recent medical improvements. This training will share how stigma and the language we use impacts patient care with documented consequences on health outcomes. It will also connect your center with resources on enabling services for patients with diabetes. We are pursuing continuing education credits and will be in touch as they become available.
Summit Keynote
Messages Matter: The Language of Diabetes
Evidence and experience show that the way we talk to - and about - people with diabetes matters.
There is a growing language movement among both health care professionals and people living with diabetes with the aim of adopting strengths-based and empowering messages that build people up and lead to improved outcomes.
This keynote address will be an opportunity to hear about the evidence, ongoing research, and examples of what works and how we can change our messages.
Keynote Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the language movement in diabetes
- Identify three effective approaches to communicating with people who have diabetes
- Locate language resources for diabetes professionals
Jane K Dickinson, RN, PhD, CDE
2019 Diabetes Educator of the Year, American Association of Diabetes Educators
Program Director, Diabetes Education and Management
Teacher's College at Columbia University
Living Your Best Life (with Diabetes) is an interactive curriculum for care coordinators, outreach workers, medical assistants, front desk staff, or anyone who has interest in facilitating patients with diabetes in their self-managment journey.
It will take place following the Diabetes Summit.
You can learn more about - and register for - Living Your Best Life (with Diabetes) here.
