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37th Annual SCADCES Conference: Beyond Tomorrow

November 06, 2025 7:00 AM - November 06, 2025 5:00 PM
Join the SC Coordinating Body for their annual diabetes conference!
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  • Description
  • Registration Information
  • Location
  • Faculty
  • Agenda
  • Disclosures
  • Accreditation
  • Credits

Clinicians and educators in all healthcare-related environments play a key role in managing the care of people living with diabetes. This conference will provide up to date research, treatment approaches, and best practice methods for glycemic management to support people in reaching optimal health and preventing complications beyond tomorrow.

Activity description: Participants attending this meeting will be able to walk away with the knowledge on Community Engagement and its impact on health outcomes, Treatment for Diabetes Pre-Surgical Rehabilitation, Insulin pumps and AID for individualized treatment, Food as Medicine as a resource for PWD, Tools to use in Making South Carolina Diabetes Free and Identification of MASH and emerging treatment modalities.

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

Registration:
Members - $150
Non-Members - $165

Retired Registration - $40
Student Registration (No CE) - $30

Questions? Email [email protected]

Dinner on Wednesday, 11/5 - details to come! Registration required.

Conference Location:
USC Pastides Alumni Center, 900 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Hotel:
Hilton Columbia Center, 924 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Aundrea Lofty
MD, Associate Professor of Endocrinology and Medicine/Medical University of South Carolina.
Dr. Katherine Johnson
MD, Assistant Adjunct Faculty (AHEC/MUSC), Clinical Director at FCC (Self Memorial Group Full Circle Care) a Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Clinic
Emily Khobus
AGNP-C, CDCES, DHA (Student).
Mara Schwartz
RN, CDCES, BSN, CPT Diabetes Education Program Coordinator at Self Regional Healthcare, Greenwood SC.
Zack King
MPH, MCHES, Consultant SC Food is Medicine Technical Assistance Collaborative and Kerri Stewart, RDN, LD Culinary Medicine Coordinator Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
Misti Leyva
PhD, RD, LD, Project Strategist at Diabetes Free SC.
Iris McDuffie
MS, RDN, LD, FNKF

Agenda

7:00-7:50am: Registration, Coffee, Exhibits

7:50-8:00am: Welcome, Introduction

8:00-9:00am: The Power of Community Engagement - Aundrea Loftley, MD

9:00-10:00am: Hypercortisolism as a driver for Hyperglycemia - Dr. Katherine Johnson, MD

10:00-10:30: Break, Networking, Exhibits

10:30-11:30am: Diabetes Pre Surgical Pre Habilitation - Emily Kobus, AGNO-C, CDCES, DHA (student)

11:30am-12:30pm: Lunch, Networking, Exhibits

12:30-1:45pm: AID Algorithms: Eliminate the Confusion - Mara Schwartz, RN, CDCES, BSN, CPT

1:45-2:45pm: Strengthening Food is Medicine Approaches in SC - Zack King, MCHES and Kerri Stewart, RDN, LD

2:45-3:00: Break

3:00-3:45pm: Making South Carolina Diabetes Free - Misti Leyva, PhD, RD, LD

3:45-4:00: Break

4:00-5:00pm: From Plate to Purpose: Empowering Healthy Change Beyond Tomorrow - Iris McDuffie, MS, RDN, LD, FNKF

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 Financial Relationships: In accordance with Joint Accreditation criteria and the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies for the past 24 months.

Joint Accreditation/ACCME requires ADCES to identify and mitigate all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to ensure educational content is balanced, evidence-based, and free from bias. Disclosure information is provided to help learners recognize any relevant financial relationships and make their own informed judgments about the content. If you perceive any bias during the activity, please report it through the evaluation form.

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

Speakers
Iris Mcduffy, MS, RDN, LD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Mara Schwartz, BSN, RN, CDCES, CPT – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Andrea Loftly, MD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Katherine Johnson, MD – Corcept Therapeutics: Speakers Bureau
Emily Kobus, AGNP-C, NP-C, MSN, BSN, FACHDM, CDCES, DHA(c)
Zack King, MPH, MCHES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Kerri Stewart, RD/LD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Misti Leyva, PhD, RD, LD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Planners
Colleen Wracker, RDN, LDN. CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Kelly McCombs, MS, RD, LD, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Iris Mcduffy, MS, RDN, LD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Taylor Pennisi, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Sara Forbes MS, RD, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Ellen Duncan RN, BSN, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Eileen Egan, DNP, CDCES, BC-ADM, FADCES: Novo Nordisk: Employment
Terri Hornauer MS, RD, LD, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Jennifer Confrontini, RD, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Erica Moore MHS, RDN, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Ramona Hrysikos, FNP, BCADM, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Peer Reviewers
Nancy Ryan, RD, MS, BC-ADM, CDCE S– has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
Autumn Stewart-Lynch, PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Accreditation:

In support of improving patient care, 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 JA4008258-0000-25-321-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 7.0 contact hour(s). This statement contains information provided to NABP from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) via CPE Monitor®. ACPE policy states paper and/or electronic statements of credit may no longer be distributed directly to learners as proof of ACPE credit. The official record of credit may be located in the learner’s e-profile in CPE Monitor.

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 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 7.0 ANCC contact hours.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 7.0 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 7.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

CDRv2Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR): CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 7.0 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. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 7.0 general 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.

Successful Completion
To receive a Statement of Credit, you must participate in all identified components of the activity and complete an evaluation

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