HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE VIRTUAL EPIC DIABETES CONFERENCE

4TH ANNUAL EPIC DIABETES CONFERENCE

With so many facets for diabetes care, it’s impossible to learn everything you need to know in quarterly appointments, even after many years of living with the disease. The Children’s Diabetes Foundation and the Barbara Davis Center partnered together to create the EPIC Diabetes Conference to give patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare providers an in-depth look on improving their diabetes care in an open, supportive environment.

The Fourth Annual EPIC Diabetes Conference focused on connectivity and offered three different tracks for attendees to tailor their experience: pediatric, adult, and advanced. Sessions covered a variety of topics including mental and emotional health, remote monitoring, online decision making, COVID-19, and more. The event provided attendees the opportunity to improve their individual care, embrace the diabetes community, and reinforce the fact that they are not alone with this disease. This year’s conference, virtual for the first time, brought together hundreds of people from 21 states and 3 different continents.

Kellee Miller , PhD, MPH

Workshops included a 15-minute presentation by each speaker, followed by 45 minutes for questions from attendees. The format allowed attendees the opportunity to connect directly with Colorado's top endocrinologists and diabetes specialists in real time, even though they weren’t in the same room. Keynote speaker Kellee Miller, PhD, MPH, provided an in-depth presentation, Connecting Scientific Advancements to Patient Care, highlighting her diabetes research and how data is used to identify trends in the diabetes community. Kellee is the Senior Epidemiologist at the Jaeb Center for Health Research in Tampa, Florida. She has a PhD in Epidemiology and her research focus is type 1 diabetes. Other presenters included Aaron Michels, MD, David Swaschnig, RN, CPNP, Jane Reusch, MD, Brigitte Frohnert, MD, PhD, Viral Shah, MD, Jenna Eisenberg, MS, LMFT, Shideh Majidi, MD, Ellen Fay-Itzkowitz, MS, Robert Slover, MD, Cecilia Low Wang, MD, Kimber Simmons, MD, Hal Joseph, PA, Taylor Triolo, MD, and Greg Forlenza, MD.

Children’s Diabetes Foundation and the Barbara Davis Center would like to extend a very special thank you to the Beatson Foundation, the presenting sponsor for the Fourth Annual EPIC Diabetes Conference. Save the Date for 2022! The Fifth Annual EPIC Diabetes Conference will be IN-PERSON at the Sheraton Downtown Denver on Saturday, May 21, 2022.

Did you miss the conference? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Visit epicconferences.org/2021-presentations to view slides from the virtual event. 4TH ANNUAL EPIC DIABETES CONFERENCE