Symposium Session: A Pivotal Life: The Diabetes Management Journey From a Health Care Professional and a Person Living With Diabetes

Health care professionals – dietitians, physicians, specialists, and more – are included in the over 38 million Americans who are challenged with managing their own diabetes. So, who better to describe the diabetes journey than a dietitian and a physician who both manage type 1 diabetes? 

In this session, Toby Smithson, MS, RDN, LD, CDCES, FAND, and Jason C. Baker, MD, will offer an insider view into how to live and thrive while managing diabetes. Toby and Dr. Baker will discuss pivotal moments for both the diabetes educator and the person living with the disease. They will uncover some of the latest information on screening for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and provide counsel on best practices when guiding patients through shared decision-making processes regarding eating patterns.  

This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2025 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:

  1. Explain the phrases, “diabetes overwhelmus” and “diabetes distress” and provide solutions to these disrupters to better counsel a person with diabetes.  
  2. Implement screening tools for diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in your daily practice. 
  3. Discuss the stages of Type 1 diabetes.  
  4. Describe the Shared Decision-Making Model associated with identifying optimal eating plans for people with diabetes.  
  5. Explain various strategies on how to individualize diabetes management to improve patient adherence and overall health outcomes.  

 

 

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 CDR
Course opens: 
05/04/2025
Course expires: 
05/07/2026
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Jason C. Baker, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Attending Endocrinologist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Baker, who has type 1 diabetes himself, is also the co-founder and medical advisor of the nonprofit organization Diabetes Empowerment International (formerly known as Marjorie’s Fund), a global diabetes initiative dedicated to education, health care access, and economic empowerment for people living with diabetes in resource-poor settings. Dr. Baker has various publications in the field of diabetes and has spoken at numerous domestic and international diabetes conferences. 

Toby Smithson, MS, RDN, LD, CDCES, FAND, is working her dream job as the Senior Manager for Nutrition & Wellness at the American Diabetes Association (ADA). She leads the coordination and execution of nutrition and wellness content across all channels and for all audiences the ADA serves. She is an award-winning certified diabetes care and education specialist and registered dietitian nutritionist who has been successfully managing her own type 1 diabetes for more than five decades.  

Toby was awarded the 2020 Diabetes Educator of the Year honor by the Diabetes Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). She is a former media spokesperson for the AND, and media spokesperson for the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES). Toby is a frequent resource for nutrition writers and bloggers and writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report. She is the principal author of “Diabetes Meal Planning and Nutrition for Dummies,” and she’s combined her professional knowledge with her life experiences of managing diabetes by producing scores of accessible videos under the banner DiabetesEveryDay.

DISCLOSURES

Toby Smithson, faculty for this educational event, is a content creator for Aeroflow and a consultant for Intuity and POGO Blood Glucose Meter. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
Jason Baker, faculty for this educational event, is on the advisory board for Insulet, and a speaker for Dexcom and Sanofi. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU). 

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion. 

 

Available Credit

  • 1.25 CDR

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