Welcome to the DCPNS Spring 2009 Workshop

Diabetes Care – Making a Difference.

 

 

We are pleased to present you with a varied program that is intended to provide:

     A forum that develops and encourages critical thinking.

     Insight into new and emerging approaches aimed at the treatment of diabetes and diabetes care in Nova Scotia.

     Opportunity for networking among and between health care professionals.

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009 (cont)

 

 

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.       Nutrition Break

 

 

10:30 to 11:15 a.m.       Change and Challenges:  Teens with Diabetes

                                    Speakers:  Arati Mokashi, Beth Cummings, Janice Smith                                     & Lisa Morrison (view/download)

 

 

11:15 a.m. to                Partnership Projects

12:15 p.m.                   

                                    Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose:

                                    The Health Care Professional Perspective

                                    Speaker:  Celeste Latter

 

                                    Physical Activity and Exercise Tool-kit Update

                                    and Video Release

                                    Speaker:  Jonathon Fowles (view/download)

 

 

12:15 to 1:15 p.m.         Lunch (Open Mic…Sharing & Storing Telling)

                                    How has humor found its way into your workplace?

 

 

1:15 to 1:45 p.m.           DCPNS Priorities and Projects…Highlights

                                    Speakers: Pam Talbot, Brenda Cook, and

                                    Peggy Dunbar (view/download)           

 

1:45 to 2:15 p.m.           Moving Blood Pressure Management Forward in

                                    Nova Scotia - Small Group Work – Interactive Session                                    Speaker:  Dr. Lynne Harrigan

 

 

2:15 to 3:00 p.m.           Expanding the Reach of Diabetes Care

                                    Speaker:  Dr. Michele Heisler (view/download)

 

 

3:00 to 3:30 PM             What’s on the Horizon for Diabetes Care

                                    and Practice

                                    Speaker:  Dr. Thomas Ransom (view/download)

 

 

3:30 PM                        Wrap Up…Safe Travel Home

 

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009

(6:00 to 9:00 p.m.)

 

6:00 to 6:30 p.m.           Registration & Viewing of Industry Partner Displays

 

6:30 p.m.                      Dinner (Complements of our Workshop Sponsors)

 

7:45 to 8:45 p.m.           Complexities, Controversies, and Challenges –

                                    Making the Most of What We Know (view/download)

 

                                    Evening Presentation with International Speaker,                                     Michele Heisler, MD FRCPC

 

                                   

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

(7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.)

 

7:45 to 8:30 a.m.           Breakfast with our Industry Sponsors

 

8:30 to 9:15 a.m.           Diabetic Nephropathy – Implications for Practice

                                    Speaker:  Dr. Tammy Keough-Ryan (view/download)

 

9:15 to 10:00 a.m.         Diabetes Centre Grants – What Did We Learn?

                                    (view/download)

 

                                    FAB! Fit After Birth

                                    Speaker:  Judy Mahar

 

                                    Facilitated Diabetes Exercise Program

                                    Speaker:  Marilyn Campbell-Profitt

 

                                    Diabetes Talking Circle:  A Self-Management Program

                                    Speaker:  Anita MacKinnon