Activity description: The Symposium, through team based and dynamic interprofessional education, will provide attendees information intended to develop their awareness and enhance their skills and abilities to navigate the emerging and rapidly changing technologies being used in the delivery of diabetes care, education, and communication.

Target audience: This activity is designed for individuals or groups of diabetes care and education specialists including Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists, Physicians, Social Workers, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related conditions.

Standard Registration: Now - May 22nd, 2025
Member: $145
Non-Member: $165
Retired: $69
Student (No CE): $69

Late Registration: May 22nd, 2025 - May 31st, 2025
Member: $169
Non-Member: $189
Retired: $89
Student (No CE): $89

Crew of Eight Early Registration: Now - April 12th, 2025 - $1000
Crew of Eight Standard Registration: April 12th, 2025 - May 22nd, 2025 - $1200

*For group registrations, please email [email protected]

*Those registering under the Student registration category will not receive CE

This event will take place at:

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront
333 1st St SE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
1-727-894-5000
2025 FL Diabetes Symposium Discounted Room Rate $195/night and discounted overnight and daily valet parking.
Hotel Link: FL Diabetes Symposium - 2025 Hilton Bayfront Reservations

Located in the heart of St. Petersburg Waterfront District.
Tampa International Airport - 21 miles

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Friday, May 30th, 2025
5:00-6:00 pm: Welcome Aboard - Registration
6:00-7:00 pm: Sponsored Dinner & Speaker program
7:00-9:00 pm: Anchors Aweigh Exhibitor Regatta, Networking and Cocktail reception

Saturday, May 31st, 2025
7:00-7:45 am: Registration & Sponsored Breakfast-Speaker program (7:00-7:30)
7:45-8:00 am: Opening and Welcome to Symposium
8:00-9:00 am: Keynote Presentation: Technology in Diabetes Care: Past, Present and Future, Damon Tanton, MD
9:00-10:00 am: The State of Diabetes in Florida, Joseph Chebli, MD
10:00-10:30 am: Exhibitor Regatta and sponsored break
10:30-11:30 am: Digital Health Solutions & Their Impact on Patient Outcomes, Malinda Peeples RN, CDCES, FADCES
11:30-12:30 pm: Artificial Intelligence in Diabetes Care and Education, Kevin Rose
12:30-2:00 pm: Exhibitor Regatta Finale & Sponsored Lunch w/Speaker program (1:00-1:30)
2:00-3:30 pm: Using Technology in the Delivery of Successful DSMES with expert panel, facilitated by Damon Tanton, MD; Panel: Rodrique Rodney, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES; Malinda Peeples RN, CDCES, FADCES; Marissa Feldman, PhD; Brooke Alvarez, RD, LD/N, CLC, CDCES
3:30-4:30 pm: The Effect of Technology on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Diabetes Care & Education, James Gavin III, MD
4:30-4:45 pm: Closing Remarks and Continuing Education Instructions

Requirements for successful completion: For successful completion, participants are required to attend the full activity, and complete and submit the program evaluation at the conclusion of the educational event. Your Statement of Credit will be issued upon submission of the evaluation form. Pharmacists must provide their date of birth (MMDD) and NABP ePID to receive credit. Pharmacist learners who fail to provide this information will not receive credit for this activity. Please check your NABP profile within 45 days of this activity to make sure your credits were uploaded. Per the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board, nurse practitioners are eligible to claim continuing education contact hours from ANCC

Disclosure and Mitigation of Relevant Conflicts of Interest: In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) requires anyone in a position to affect or control continuing education content (e.g., authors, presenters, and program planners) to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. It is the responsibility of ADCES to mitigate and disclose all relevant conflicts of interest. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of the presentation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among education activity planners and faculty are as follows:

All identified relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated.

Speakers
Damon Tanton, MD - Viome, MiCare, AEYE: Stock; Lilly, BI, Novo Nordisk, Amgen: Speakers Bureau; Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Amgen: Consultant
Joseph E. Chebli, MD, FASMBS – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDCES, FADCES – Welldoc: Employment, Consultant
Kevin Rose – Oracle: Employment
Rodrique Rodney, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Amy Kimberlain, RDN, LDN, CDCES – Abbott: Consultant
James R. Gavin III, MD, PhD - Abbott Diabetes Care, Boehringer Ingelheim, E. Lilly: Speakers Bureau; Abbott Diabetes; Abbott Medical Research; Embecta Inc: Consultant
Wendy Mobley-Bukstein, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CHWC, NASM-CPT, FAPhA, FADCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Marissa Feldman, PhD, ABPP – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Brooke Alvarez, RD, LD/N, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Planners
Lorraine Flock RDN, LD/N, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Kathryn Mulcahy RN, MSN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Bridget Jennings MSN, RN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Jeanna Rhoulhac RDN, LD/N, CDCES
Daniyel Macomber MS, RDN, LDN, CDCES, CLC – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Wilhelmina Lewis, MD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Juana Burgohy MPH, RDN, CDCES – Mannkind: Employment
Kristen Schroeder-Brown BSN, RN, CHES, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Sharon Hatch – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Rachel Franks, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Jane King, LCSW – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Content Reviewers
Ashley Danielle James, DNP, APRN, CCNS, FNP-BC, CCA, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Accreditation:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned by Florida Diabetes Alliance, Inc. and the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education The Universal Activity Number is JA4008258-9999-25-237-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 7.5 contact hour(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 7.5 ANCC contact hours.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 7.5 contact hours. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the activity concludes.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 7.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR): CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 7.5 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR prefession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietietics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60 minute hour = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 continuing education credits.

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists: To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (http://www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

Other Health Professionals: It is the responsibility of each participant to determine if the program meets the criteria for re-licensure or recertification for their discipline.