Clinical Diabetes Management for Primary Care Clinicians - 2025
Clinical Diabetes Management for Primary Care Clinicians
Diabetes is a very common and serious disease. New diabetes therapies and technologies are expanding dramatically and evidence-based guidelines are continually changing, making management more challenging. Keeping current with the latest therapies for the management of diabetes and related comorbidities is difficult and time consuming.
Primary care clinicians are increasingly responsible for diabetes management and education. This requires extensive knowledge of the natural history of diabetes and recommended treatment options, as well as the ability to teach people how to successfully manage their disease. Given the complex and diverse nature of diabetes, education on evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols is vital to a clinician’s ability to effectively treat individuals with diabetes.
This program uses lectures and interactive learning activities based on the latest research and clinically proven therapies. With an emphasis on application, this comprehensive program for medical professionals includes practice-based case studies. This program will give providers increased knowledge, skills and confidence, and provide tools to manage this complex chronic disease.
Target Audience
Primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants; medical therapy management pharmacists, certified diabetes educators
Learning Objectives
Following this learning activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the underlying defects and natural history of diabetes
- Evaluate noninsulin diabetes therapies and identify principles for selecting, combining and advancing therapies
- Initiate insulin therapy based on patient assessment and adjust insulin doses based on blood glucose monitoring pattern management or using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data
- Apply strategies to improve adherence to diabetes self-management activities such as lifestyle changes and glucose monitoring
- Outline a systematic approach for screening and managing the complications of diabetes: hypertension, dyslipidemia, renal disease, neuropathy, wound care and sexual function
- Describe diabetes management in special populations such as pregnancy and the elderly
- Discuss evidence-based strategies to address obesity
Day 1: Thursday, October 2 | |
7:30 am | Registration and light breakfast |
8:00 | Welcome and announcements |
8:15 | Diabetes Management Today (includes 15-minute pre-test) |
9:15 | Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes |
9:55 | Commonly Asked Nutrition Questions |
10:15 | Break |
10:30 | CVD in Diabetes: Focus on HTN and Lipid Management |
11:30 | Lunch |
12:15 pm | Navigating the Maze of Noninsulin Therapies |
1:45 | Moving the Needle on Insulin Therapy |
2:30 | Break |
2:45 | Glucose Pattern Management: Focus on Insulin |
3:45 | Diabetes Management in Gestational Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Pregnancy |
4:15 | How Diabetes Affects Sexual Health |
5:00 | Adjourn |
Day 2: Friday, October 3 | |
7:45 am | Light breakfast |
8:00 | Diabetes and the Foot: Neuropathy and Wound Care |
8:30 | Ask the Endocrinologist |
9:45 | Break |
10:00 | Options for the Person with Overweight/Obesity |
11:00 | Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes Management |
11:45 | Lunch |
12:30 pm | Integrating CGM into your Practice |
2:00 | Type 2 Diabetes Prevention in Adolescents |
2:30 | Post-Test |
2:45 | Kidney Disease and Diabetes |
3:30 | Adjourn |
Try these routes to get some steps in during the breaks:
Indoor Walking Map
Outdoor Walking Map
Directions and parking
Take Highway 100 to Excelsior Blvd.; east to Park Nicollet Blvd. (behind McDonalds; across from Miracle Mile Shopping Center); turn left into the clinic campus and follow signs to the free patient and visitor parking ramp or valet. Handicapped parking is available on each level of the ramp and noted surface lots near building entrances. Please park on the upper levels of the ramp to allow priority parking for our patients. A map of the campus can be found here.
The campus consists of three clinic buildings – 3800, 3850 and 3900. Enclosed skyways located on the second level of the parking ramp connect the buildings.
Follow signs to the 3800 building and elevators. Naegele Auditorium is located on the 7th floor.
Additional parking: If you don’t mind a short walk, there is free parking along Wolfe Park as well as a free ramp at Excelsior & Grand, they are about a 4 minute walk to the 3800 building. A local map can be found here. Check with your hotel to see if they provide free shuttle to our location, several do. Parking on-site can be very limited.
Travel
Nearby Hotels:
Marriott Residency
952-893-9300
Close to MSP Airport and Mall of America
About 20-30 min from conference (varies with traffic)
Homewood Suites
952-544-0495
About 10 min from conference
Holiday Inn
763-545-8300
About 10 min from conference
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.
In the past 24 months all industry sponsored research activity that has been disclosed was performed under contract to the non-profit HealthPartners Institute and the International Diabetes Center of which they are employees.
Content Reviewer
Jeremy Springer, MD has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Gregg Simonson, PhD
Anders Carlson, MD
Molly Carlson, MD
Kristin Christiansen
Katrina Flaskerud, MS, RDN, LD, CDCES
Elizabeth Johnson, RDN, LD, CDCES
Kathryn Leet, RN, CDCES
Thomas Martens, MD
Michael Miller2, RD, CDCES
Laura Ross, PA-C
Betsy Schwartz, MD
Gregg Simonson, PhD
Jennifer Vesely, MD
Kathryn Leet, RN, CDCES
Thomas Martens, MD
Shannon Neale, MD
Gregg Simonson, PhD
HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The AAFP has reviewed Clinical Diabetes Management - 2025 and deemed it acceptable for up to 14.00 Live AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 10/02/2025 to 10/03/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:
- 14.00 Medical Knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
- 14.00 MOC point in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM or ABP MOC credit.
This program has been approved by the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy and is acceptable for 14.00 hours. The program number assigned to this course is 2-031-485-062B.
This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing requirements. It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification for their discipline.
Available Credit
- 14.00 AAFP Prescribed
- 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 14.00 AttendanceThis program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
- 14.00 MN Board of PharmacyHealthPartners is approved by the Minnesota State Board of Pharmacy as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education for Minnesota pharmacists. This program has been approved and is acceptable for 14.00 hours of continuing education credit. The program number assigned to this course is: 2-031-485-062B.
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Cancellations must be received by 5:00 p.m. Central Time on September 25th, 2025. No refunds will be issued after this time.
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