UAMS Hosting 31st Annual Diabetes Update for Health Professionals on Nov. 14
| LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is hosting the 31st Annual Diabetes Update on Nov. 14 in the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
The daylong educational program is for healthcare professionals in a variety of specialties who diagnose and treat diabetes. It will focus on strategies aimed at improving patient care and communication with patients for the purpose of increasing patient adherence.
The keynote speaker will be Justin Eastzer, a reporter, podcaster, and advocate for diabetics who is the founder and host of Diabetech, a multiplatform source for diabetes tech, news, and research. He will discuss “What’s New and Exciting in Diabetes Technology.”
Topics will also include updates to diabetes standards of care, prescribing information for injectable and oral GLP-1 medications, Medicaid formularies, cooking healthy meals, new-onset diabetes education, hypoglycemia, ketone monitoring, hot topics with older adults, and the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular death in diabetics.
The conference will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Walton Auditorium on the 10th floor of the Cancer Institute. Parking is available in Parking Deck 3 at the corner of UAMS Boulevard and Capitol Avenue.
To register or obtain additional information, please visit: uams.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?EID=75032&P=5.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; hospitals in Little Rock and Bryant; an orthopaedic hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise, including affiliated hospitals in Pine Bluff, Helena-West Helena, Mena, and Warren. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,813 students and 1,030 medical residents and fellows, and two dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with about 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###