Transforming Lives Diabetes Today and Tomorrow
Transforming Lives will be the signature Outreach event for the JDRF Desert Southwest Chapter. This one-day interactive conference focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) will become an annual event, bringing together diabetes experts from around the country, families, adults, healthcare professionals and the general public.
Mark Your Calendars!
April 14, 2012
Arizona Biltmore
Phoenix, Arizona
9am-5pm
The first 500 to register will receive a complimentary boxed lunch!
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Opening Keynote Address
10am—11am
“Diabetes Therapy Today: How Far We Have Come”
H. Peter Chase, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Past Executive Director, Clinical Director and Pediatric Clinical Director
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, Denver, Colorado
Breakout Sessions I
12pm—1pm *
“Understanding and Maximizing Insulin Pump Therapy”
H. Peter Chase, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Past Executive Director, Clinical Director and Pediatric Clinical Director
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, Denver, Colorado
“Managing Blood Sugar During Sports and Fitness Activities”
Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE
Integrated Diabetes Services
“The Teen Age: Managing Type 1 Diabetes During Adolescence”
Lauren Tolle, Ph.D.
“College Prep Course”
(For High School Juniors and Seniors ONLY)
Moderated by Michelle Magorno, CPNP, CDE
Breakout Sessions II
1:30pm—2:30pm
“Making the Most of Continuous Glucose Monitoring”
Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE
Integrated Diabetes Services
“Type Cast: Taking the ‘Juvenile’ Out of Diabetes”
A Type 1 Discussion for Adults
“Diabetes and the Family: Emotional and Psychological Coping Made Easier”
Joe Solowiejczyk, RN, MSW, CDE
“The DOC: Diabetes Online Community”
Manny Hernandez, Diabetes Hands Foundation, TuDiabetes.org
Cherise Shockley, Founder, Diabetes Social Media Advocacy
Bill Woods, 1HappyDiabetic.org
Keynote Research Address
3pm—4pm
“Diabetes Tomorrow:
Where We Are On the Path to
Cure, Treat and Prevent Type 1 Diabetes”
Aaron Kowalski, PhD
Assistant Vice President of Treatment Therapies
JDRF
*Boxed lunch to teen/adult attendees will be provided before the first breakout session
KidZone presented by
This all day, on-site program for youth, ages 5 to 12, includes:
- An opening ceremony and introduction to Character Counts!
- Character Relay Races
- Music
- Games
- Activities
- Arts and Crafts
- Closing Ceremony
Free play, and much more!
All activities are age appropriate for our kids and youth! Register for your KidZone spot today! Only 100 spots available! Includes boxed lunch.
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Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D., oversees JDRF-funded research aimed at accelerating the delivery of therapies that will help keep people healthy while living with type 1 diabetes, minimizing their risk for developing diabetes complications, as well as therapies that will help those who have developed diabetic complications. Dr. Kowalski is an internationally recognized expert in the area of diabetes technologies and has been a leader of JDRF’s Artificial Pancreas Project, a multi-million dollar initiative that began in to accelerate the progress toward a closed-loop automated insulin-delivery system. He has authored numerous articles in the field, including a landmark study in The New England Journal of Medicine which revealed the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors in type 1 diabetes. Dr. Kowalski has traveled widely across North America and abroad describing diabetes research progress, and is known for his ability to translate science into easily understandable concepts. Dr. Kowalski will deliver the keynote research update.
H. Peter Chase, MD is the Executive Director, Clinical Director, Director of Pediatric Clinic, Emeritus and is currently Professor of Pediatrics at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado. Dr. Chase studies the use of continuous glucose monitors in youth and the development of algorithms to prevent hypoglycemia using a closed loop system and screens family members of patients with type 1 diabetes to detect those at high risk for possible participation in prevention studies. He is the well-known author of the three most frequently used family education books using the Pink Panther character as well as over 300 research articles and book chapters. Dr. Chase will deliver the opening keynote.
Gary Scheiner MS, CDE is the Owner/Clinical Director of Integrated Diabetes Services. A certified diabetes educator, masters-level exercise physiologist and person with type 1 diabetes, Mr. Scheiner has dedicated his professional life to improving the lives of people with insulin-dependent diabetes. Mr. Scheiner has authored four books: You Can Control Diabetes, Think Like a Pancreas, The Ultimate Guide to Carb Counting and Get Control of Your Blood Sugar.
Lauren Woodward Tolle, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in Denver, CO. Lauren completed her doctoral work at the University of Nevada, Reno and postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Lauren also has a Master’s degree in Applied Health Psychology from Northern Arizona University. Lauren’s research interests include evaluating clinical outcomes of evidence-based practice in primary care as well as pediatric settings. Lauren has conducted research and published in the area of improving diabetes management and family communication for adolescents with type 1 diabetes. She greatly enjoys working with this population. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys spending time with her family including her newborn son, Liam, in beautiful Colorado.
Joe Solowiejczyk, RN, MSW, CDE is the Clinical Manager of Counseling & Presentations for Animas Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company. A healthcare professional who has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 40 years, Mr. Solowiejczyk is able to translate his personal experiences into patient care. As a nurse, diabetes educator and family therapist, he specializes in assessing how family dynamics impact the management of diabetes and designs interventions that result in more effective coping and optimal metabolic control.
Manny Hernandez is the co-founder of TuDiabetes.org and EsTuDiabetes.org. As President of the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF), he has been instrumental to the development of the DHF’s diabetes awareness programs and continued outreach to offer support and diabetes information to nearly 200,000 people touched by diabetes every month. He serves on the Mutimedia Advisory Board at USC Annenberg School for Communication, has served on the Board of iPump.org and write dlife.com’s only bilingual diabetes column for nearly four years.
Cherise Shockley was diagnosed with Type 1.5/ LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adults) in 2004. She is the Founder of Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) a real-time communications resource for the diabetes community, their family members and caretakers. She is moderator of the DSMA twitter chat (diabetessocmed.com), and co‐host of "DSMA Live" (blog talk radio show). Cherise is a contributing author to "MY SWEET LIFE: Successful Women with Diabetes."
Bill Woods is the founder of 1HappyDiabetic.com a website that encourages people with diabetes to live a happy and healthy life. Mr. Woods was awarded the 2009 TuDiabetes.org Creative Mind award voted on by the diabetic online community. His award winning videos for “Making Sense of Diabetes” led the way in spreading awareness of diabetes through internet video creation.
Transforming Lives: Diabetes Today and Tomorrow is presented by:
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