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Welcome to the DCPNS Spring 2015 Conference
Diabetes: Cultural Considerations, Complexities & Complications
Objectives:
• Gain insight into the effective identification and management of disease distress, diabetes eye disease, and sleep disorders
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Better understand diabetes in the context of culturally diverse populations/communities
Be able to assess the need for insulin therapy and appropriately initiate
Be able to discuss the impact of nutrition fads & facts and physical activity technology/incentives on office/clinic-based practice
Demonstrate an understanding, and considerations for use, of new pharmacotherapies as well as the future of diabetes devices
and technology
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
11:45 to 12:45 p.m. Registration/Light Lunch/Industry Displays
12:45 p.m.
Welcome/Opening Remarks
12:50 to 1:40 p.m. Self-Management Support Includes Addressing Psychosocial Issues: What Do
We Know & What Can We Do
Speaker: Michael Vallis, PhD R Psych
1:40 to 2:45 p.m.
Cultural Considerations and Diabetes
Panel Members: Lorraine Whitman, Donna Smith, RN, and Tim Holland, MD
2:45 to 3:05 p.m.
Break
3:05 to 3:20 p.m. DCPNS Diabetes Centre Grant - Supporting Clients with Disease Distress:
Piloting the Diabetes Psychosocial Manual in South Shore Health
Speaker: Chad Nippard, PDt
3:20 to 4:00 p.m. DCPNS Initiatives
Update of the South Shore Health Initiative & DCPNS SMBG Tool Survey
Speaker: Tina Witherall, PDt CDE
Insulin Dose Adjustment: What’s New for 2015 & Patient Self-Adjustment
Survey Findings
Speaker: Carrie Haggett, RN BScN CDE
4:00 to 4:30 p.m. *Frailty and Cognition: Why They Matter in Diabetes Management
and How to Assess Them
Speaker: Paige Moorhouse, MD MPH FRCPC
4:30 to 5:00 p.m. *Decision Making in Insulin
Speaker: Tom Ransom, MD FRCPC
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015
7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Registration/Breakfast with Industry Partners
8:30 to 9:00 a.m.
*Diabetes and the Retina: New Paradigms of Care
Speaker: Alan Cruess, MD FRCSC
9:00 to 9:30 a.m.
*The Sleep Apnea and Diabetes Link - Not a Sweet Thing?
Speaker: Debra Morrison, MD FRCPC
9:30 to 10:00 a.m.
DCPNS Diabetes Centre Grants
Making the Most of Wait Times: IWK Health Centre
Speakers: Janice Smith, RN BScN CDE and Laurel Fry, PDt
Mission Possible: Track, Contact, Recovery:
QEII Endocrinology Clinic Speaker: Darlene Miller-Cash, RN BScN CDE
10:00 to 10:15 a.m.
DCPNS Initiative: Diabetes - Improving Transition
Processes & Experiences
Speaker: Natalie Sullivan, BSW
10:15 to 10:35 a.m.
Break
10:35 to 11:25 a.m.
Physical Activity & Exercise Promotion in a Culture of Time
Constraints, Technology, and Trouble with Motivation
Speakers: Jonathon Fowles, PhD and Chris Shields, PhD
11:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. New Pharmacotherapies: Application to Current Practice
Speaker: Barna Tugwell, MD FRCPC
12:15 to 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 to 1:40 p.m.
Nutrition Fads and Facts: To Believe or Not To Believe?
Speaker: Cynthia Keith, PDt MAHN CDE
1:40 to 2:00 p.m.
DCPNS Update
Speaker: Peggy Dunbar, MEd PDt CDE
2:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Looking to the Future - Therapies and Devices
Speaker: Tom Ransom, MD FRCPC
2:30 p.m.
Wrap up and Evaluation
*Brief Reports
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Special thanks to our guest speakers who offered their expertise and practical insights.
Guest Speakers
Alan Cruess, MD FRCSC
Professor, Depart. of Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Peggy Dunbar, MEd PDt CDE
DCPNS Program Manager
Jonathon Fowles, PhD CSEP-CEP CSCS Director, Centre of Lifestyle Studies, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
Laurel Fry, PDt
Diabetes Educator, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS
Carrie Haggett, RN BScN CDE DCPNS Diabetes Consultant and Diabetes Educator, Halifax, NS
Tim Holland, MD
Family Physician, Halifax Transitional Health Clinic for Refugees
Cindy Keith, PDt MAHN CDE
Diabetes Educator, NS Health Authority, Halifax, NS
Darlene Miller-Cash, RN BScN CDE
Diabetes Educator, Endocrinology Clinic, QEII, Halifax, NS
Paige Moorhouse, MD MPH FRCPC
Division of Geriatric Medicine, QEII, Halifax, NS
Debra Morrison, MD FRCPC
Clinical Director, Sleep Disorders Clinic, QEII, Halifax, NS
Chad Nippard, PDt
Dietitian, NS Health Authority, Liverpool, NS
Tom Ransom, MD FRCPC
Endocrinologist, Division of Endocrinology, QEII, Halifax, NS
Chris Shields, PhD
Associate Professor, Kinesiology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
Donna Smith, RN
Co-President of the Health Association of African Canadians
Janice Smith, RN BScN CDE
Diabetes Educator, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS
Natalie Sullivan, BSW
DCPNS Transition Project Coordinator
Barna Tugwell, MD FRCPC
Endocrinologist, Division of Endocrinology, QEII, Halifax, NS
Michael Vallis, PhD R Psych
Psychologist, NS Health Authority, Halifax, NS
Lorraine Whitman
Aboriginal Diabetes Coordinator, Glooscap First Nation
Tina Witherall, PDt CDE
DCPNS Diabetes Consultant and Diabetes Educator, Liverpool, NS
Diabetes: Cultural Considerations,
Complexities & Complications
April 9 & 10, 2015
Cunard Centre – Halifax, NS
This program was supported in part by educational grants provided by:
Platinum Contributor
Thank you for attending and participating in this provincial workshop.
The DCPNS would like to acknowledge and thank our Platinum (Novo Nordisk Canada Inc.)
and Gold sponsors (AstraZeneca Canada Inc.; Boehringer Ingelheim/Eli Lilly Canada Inc.;
Sanofi Diabetes) as well as our Silver sponsors (noted below) for their financial contributions
and ongoing support.
• Animas Canada • LifeScan Canada • Bayer • BD Medical
• Medtronic of Canada
• Janssen Inc. Canada
• GSK
• Roche
Gold Contributors