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ISPAD 2023 Recap
Goedemorgen! The Children with Diabetes team has just returned from Rotterdam, Netherlands and the 49th Annual ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes) Conference. We’ve had an amazing week connecting with our best diabetes Friends for Life in Europe and can’t wait to tell you all about our experiences abroad. Grab some french fries with a side of sweet ketchup and mayonnaise and let’s recap ISPAD 2023! Rotterdam, Netherlands The CWD team left different parts of the United States and flew overnight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. We were excited to connect in the Amsterdam airport, grab our luggage, and then […]
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Friends for Life White Plains 2023 Recap
It’s been a little over week now since the Children with Diabetes team returned from White Plains, New York. We’ve just concluded our Fall Friends for Life (White Plains) conference and our diabetes fuel tanks are overflowing after spending a long weekend with our Fiffles. Grab your hot apple cider and join me on a look back at FFL White Plains! Our conference weekend opened on Friday evening with registration where attendees were given their nametag lanyards and their orange or green wristbands. People with diabetes were given the familiar green wristband while the people that don’t have diabetes but […]
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Cool Tools for Diabetes
There are so many newer tools that can help you manage diabetes and it can be hard to keep up with what options are available. There are also companies that let you personalize your diabetes devices and add a little fun and whimsy into your life. Here are some that we know about – Glucose Displays There are a couple of options that allow for quick, easy visualization of the range of glucose your loved one with diabetes is currently experiencing. Glowcose – A small glowing display that changes color based on the glucose level. The thresh-olds are personalized and […]
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Transforming Diabetes Education: Inside the Friends for Life Fellows Experience
The Friends for Life Fellows program was designed to help give healthcare professionals in training some very hands-on diabetes training. These are not necessarily specific skills, but more of a “diabetes-in-the-wild” and the reality of what living with diabetes looks like for the whole family experience. This past year, I had the privilege of coordinating the Fellows program for FFL, which was a really rewarding experience. What are fellows? In general, in medicine, fellows are physicians in training who are almost attending providers – those who you call “Doctor.” For the purposes of FFL, we want to make sure it […]
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Highlights from ADCES23: Celebrating Diabetes Care and Education in Houston
Howdy friends! The Children with Diabetes team had the opportunity to attend the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Annual Conference in Houston, Texas last week and we can’t wait to share with you some of our highlights from the event. This year’s annual conference was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston and featured four days of continuing education, keynote speakers, hands-on workshops, and a giant exhibition hall. This year’s annual conference also helped to celebrate 50 years of advancing diabetes care and education with ADCES! So, grab your coffee, throw a load of […]
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Diabetes Chill Mode — the iLet
In my lifetime, there have been so many incredible advances when it comes to tools for keeping blood sugars in “target” as much as possible. I am so grateful for all these things – from rapid-acting insulins to CGMs (continuous glucose monitors), life with diabetes can be so much easier. But the thing is, even when using the latest technologies, there remains a constant to-do list for diabetes. When I start to feel hungry, on top of trying to figure out what to cook for dinner every night, I consider how many carbohydrates to prepare based on where my CGM […]
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Friends for Life Orlando 2023 Recap
Friends for Life Orlando 2023 was truly out of this world! Children with Diabetes welcomed over 1,800 people to the hallways of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort for a week of friendship, education, and fun at our annual conference that focuses on providing care for those living with type 1 diabetes. From our bustling exhibit hall to educational sessions featuring some of the world’s greatest faculty in diabetes research and management, we had the greatest times making friends for life. Read our FFL Orlando 2023 recap to learn more about this extraordinary event.
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Keeping up with Diabetes Appointments
Keeping up with Diabetes Appointments There are a lot of different appointments when it comes to diabetes. There are the obvious ones, but then there are some that tend to get put on the back burner. Here’s the rundown on what is recommended for PWD (people with diabetes). Prescribing Provider Ideally, PWD have access to an endocrinologist – a doctor who specializes in endocrine disorders. The endocrine system is made up of many glands in the body and all the hormones they regulate. Diabetes is considered an endocrine disorder since insulin is a hormone. Endocrinologists typically have the most experience […]
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ADA’s 83rd Scientific Sessions + Children with Diabetes = Where Diabetes Science and Hearts Collide
Two weeks ago several members of the Children with Diabetes team visited San Diego, California, to attend the 83rd annual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions conference. As a first-timer, I wasn’t sure what to expect but knew that primary audience for the conference was healthcare providers and that the topics would be mostly about scientific advancements in diabetes and research. I had heard so much about the ADA conferences and was excited to attend the event to learn more on behalf of our CWD families and individuals living (and thriving) with type 1 diabetes. What I found was a mixture […]
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Barriers to Screening in Type 1 Diabetes
Barriers to Screening in Type 1 Diabetes Anita Swamy1, Marissa Town2, William H Polonsky3,4 1 Chicago Children’s Diabetes Center at La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; 2 Children With Diabetes, West Chester, Ohio; 3 Behavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego, California; 4 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California Abstract Since the consensus in opinion and publication of scientific evidence to support the staged progression of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in 2015, individual and collaborative efforts to identify people in early stages of T1D have emerged globally providing further supportive evidence of the benefits of islet autoantibody screening. Despite strong […]
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