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2024 Diabetes Update

2024 Diabetes Update

The 2024 Diabetes Update symposium will provide an update on diabetes management with an emphasis on glucose management and the pregnant patient. Other topics will include medication updates, obesity management, clinical nutrition, and care of the geriatric diabetes population.

Symposium Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  1. Integrate medical management strategies for patients with gestational diabetes or diabetes and pregnancy.
  2. Recognize optimal management of obesity-related to people living with diabetes.
  3. Discuss how to interpret data from technology and implement it into pattern management within diabetes practice.
  4. Identify medications available for the treatment of patients with diabetes.
  5. Examine the impact of nutrition on patients with diabetes.
  6. Describe the treatment of diabetes in the geriatric population.
  7. Integrate into practice the appropriate treatment of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) in the patient with diabetes.

General Information

Registration Information

Registration Fees 

  • Physicians – $135
  • General Registration – $110
  • UNMC/Nebraska Medicine Employees – $90
  • Students/Residents/Fellows – $35

 

The deadline to register is Oct. 4.

Once online registration is closed, you will only be able to register on-site for the walk-in fee of $200. Walk-in registrations will only be accepted if space is available; meals are not guaranteed.

  

Register Now

 

If you need assistance with online registration, please call our Registration Office at 402-559-5929.

 

Cancel/Refund Policy

If you need to cancel your registration, please email conted@unmc.edu no later than Oct. 4, 2024. There is a $30 processing fee for cancellations made by Oct. 4. Cancellations made after this date and registrants who fail to attend are responsible for the full registration fee.

Symposium Director

Sydney L. Blount, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, UNMC

Sydney L. Blount, MD

Sponsors

This symposium is sponsored by the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism; Nebraska Medicine — Diabetes Center, and Employee Learning & Development; through the resources of the UNMC Center for Continuing Education.

Questions?

Brenda Ram, CMP, CHCP

Director, Educational Programs UNMC Center for Continuing Education

402-559-9250

Brenda Ram