Diabetes in Utah Alliance

Presents:

Diabetes in Pregnancy Forum: What Care Givers Should Know

Dr. Belfort's Presentation
Forum Evaluation

Please contact Brenda Bodily at (801) 538-6896.

When: Friday, April 14, 2006

Time: 8:30-11:30 a.m.
Breakfast will be available at locations with five or more people present. (Note: You may be contacted to assist with arrangements)

Where: Weber-Morgan Local Health Department (477 23rd St, Ogden) with Videoconferencing at other locations (By registration only. Phone conferencing is NOT available.)

Continuing education credits:

Nurses are eligible for 2.6 contact hours
Dietitians are eligible for 2 contact hours

Agenda

8:30 Registration and Breakfast

9:00 Welcome - Diabetes in Utah Alliance

9:10 Keynote Speaker - Dr. Michael Belfort, St. Mark's Hospital
Practice Recommendations for Diabetes in Pregnancy

10:00 Networking Break and Fitness Walk: Walk the Talk

10:20 Panel: Coordinating Diabetes Care for Low-Income and Minority Women During Pregnancy
Moderator: David Winmill
Panel Participants: Michael Belfort, MD, PhD; Jodi Merrill, RD, CDE; Toni Williams, BS;
Shirley McKay, RD; Laura Lavelle, BS, Certified Lactation Educator

11:10 Questions to the Panel

11:30 Adjourn

Learning Objectives

1.      After the speaker on Practice Recommendations for Diabetes in Pregnancy , attendees will:

a.      Understand the ACOG standards of care for GDM
b.      Know the data and how to use the oral agents that are being used in GDM
c.      Know how to use the longer acting insulins now available
d.      Understand the most common imitators of severe preeclampsia
e.      Be able to distinguish TTP from HELLP
f.      Understand how to manage Fatty Liver of Pregnancy

2.      After the panel on Coordinating Diabetes Care for Low-Income and Minority Women During Pregnancy, attendees will be able to:

a.      identify key community caregivers for diabetes during pregnancy and relate how they can best serve low income and minority women
b.      discuss how to improve coordination of care between providers in WIC and the healthcare community
c.      provide low income and minority women reliable educational resources for diabetes in pregnancy and empower them to assertively participate in their own care

Questions on Practice Recommendations

True or False?

a.      About 20% of pregnant women with GDM who use glyburide will have babies that are macrosomic.
b.      Ultralente is now approved for use in pregnancy by the FDA.
c.      HELLP Syndrome can be distinguished from TTP by the LDH level and peripheral smear.
d.      Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy usually has very elevated AST/ALT levels in the thousands.