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3rd Annual

Diabetes Update:

Covenant Diabetes Self-Management Program

Managing Women with Diabetes During Pregnancy

Date and Time:
Thursday, April 3, 2003
9 am to 3:30 pm
Horizons Conference Center
Saginaw, Michigan
Audience:
This one-day seminar is designed to aid physicians, nurses, dietitians, medical assistants, residents, medical students and other health care professionals providing care to pregnant women with diabetes.
Topic:
Nutrition Practice Guidelines for Gestational Diabetes & Pre-Existing Diabetes During Pregnancy
Diabetes in Pregnancy: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetic Women
Art and Science in the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes
Advanced Problem Solving for Diabetes and Pregnancy
Panel Discussion
Program Goal:
To provide information for area professionals on the latest research, medications, treatments, patient education and standards of care for women with diabetes during pregnancy.
Program Objectives:

After completion of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Describe Medical Nutrition Therapy practice guidelines as well as name nutrition principles and recommendations for pregnancies complicated by diabetes
2. Summarize the history of normalization of glycemic programs, the risks associated with hyperglycemia during the first trimester and the importance of postprandial glucose
3. Describe the optimal treatment protocols for insulin treatment in type 1 and type 2 diabetes during pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum and lactation
4. State the optimal monitoring systems for pregnancies complicated by diabetes
5. Define normoglycemia for nonpregnant and pregnant states
6. Create a dietary and insulin prescription for type 1 and type 2 and gestational diabetes during pregnancy
7. List the major complications associated with gestational diabetes
8. Define the optimal diet, exercise and insulin prescription for gestational diabetes
9. Describe the management of labor and delivery and postpartum care for pregnancy complicated by diabetes 
Program Presenters:
Lois Jovanovic, MD
Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Sansum Medical Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California; Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, California; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California–Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Attending Physician, Santa Barbara County Diabetes/Endocrine Clinic, Santa Barbara, California
Deborah Cicinelli Timm, RD, MSA, CDE
Diabetes Educator for Covenant HealthCare Diabetes Self-Management Program and Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinics, Saginaw, Michigan
Registration:
Cost for Covenant employees and residents/students: $50; All others: $70 
(Program materials, breaks and lunch are included in the registration fee)
You must be registered by March 28, 2003
For more information, please call 989.583.5195