The Diabetes Two-Step: Merging Lifestyle Modifications and Medications for Effective Management

1. Review optimal therapy approaches for managing people with diabetes.
2. Explain the role of lifestyle, self-management, and technology for people with diabetes.
3. Summarize recent changes to the American Diabetes Association Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
4. Discuss collaborative strategies with other members of the diabetes healthcare team, including the patient and other key healthcare providers, to promote best practices.
5. Formulate person-centered treatment plans for people with diabetes to reduce glucose, and improve cardiometabolic, kidney, liver, and cognitive health.

Technician Learning Objectives

1. Identify common medication therapies used in managing people with diabetes.
2. Describe the impact of lifestyle, self-management strategies, and technology on diabetes management.
3. Recognize recent updates to the American Diabetes Association Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes that may affect pharmacy practice.
4. Outline ways pharmacy technicians can support collaborative diabetes care, including communication with pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare providers.
5. Formulate patient-centered treatment plans, in collaboration with a pharmacist, for people with diabetes to reduce glucose and improve patient outcomes.

Meet Your Speaker

Susan Cornell, PharmD, CDCES, FAPhA, FADCES
Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Diabetes Care & Education Specialist
Midwestern University College of Pharmacy

Susan Cornell, BS, Pharm.D, CDCES, FAPhA, FADCES is the associate director of experiential education and professor in the department of pharmacy practice at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Dr. Cornell is also the American Pharmacist Association- Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) co-advisor. Her clinical practice is at the Bolingbrook Christian Health Center, where she is a medication therapy management pharmacist and certified diabetes care and education specialist.She is an active member of the American Pharmacist Association and the American Diabetes Association. She is also actively involved with the Association of
Diabetes Care and Education Specialists, where she served on their board of directors
from 2004 to 2007 and continues to assist on various committees.

Susan Cornell has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Financial support for this course was provided through an educational grant from McKesson Health Mart.