2025 ADA Standards of Care Update: The Different Faces of Diabetes     
September 5, 2025
Honolulu, HI

Activity description: Learners in attendance will receive a comprehensive update on the latest in diabetes care and management by dissecting the 2025 ADA diabetes standards of care interspersed with the latest pharmacologic interventions using a case study approach. In addition, learners will learn how to recognize the different types of diabetes, including; type 1, type 2, LADA, GDM, Type 3c, Type 3, MODY and Ketosis Prone Type 2 and the clinical significance of each.

Target audience: This activity is designed for individuals or groups of diabetes care and education specialists including Nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists, PAs, 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.

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

Beverly Thomassian, RN, MPH, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Alan Parsa, MD – Novo Nordisk: Speakers Bureau

Planners

Camlyn Masuda, PharmD, CDCES, BCACP– has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Naomi Fukuda, MSN, APRN, BC-ADM, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Kourtney Inouye, MS, RDN, CDCES, LD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Viola Genadio, APRN, CDCES, BC-ADM – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Patrick Uyemoto, PharmD, MBA – Novo Nordisk: Employment

Jessica Taylor Spurrier, DNP MS MSN-APHN RN CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Kevin Kam, RPh, CDCES – Abbott Diabetes: Speakers Bureau; tandem Diabetes, Insulet: Certified Pump Trainer

Content Reviewers

Catherine Moring, PhD, RD, BC-ADM, CDCES, MCHES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Anand Patel, PharmD, BCP – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Jocelyn Protopappas, MSW, MPH, RDN – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Marlene Schiferle, MSN, RD, CDCES – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies                     

Bau Tran, PA-C, PharmD – has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies

Activity Agenda

Agenda:

08:00 – 9:40 am                            Updates to the ADA Standards of Care- Beverly Thomassian

09:40 am – 10:10 am                    Break and visit exhibitors

10:10 am – 11:50 am                    Identify the key elements of the standards that improve clinical care for people with diabetes - Beverly Thomassian

11:50 am – 1:00 pm                      Lunch and visit exhibitors

1:00 pm – 2:05 pm                        Discuss the diagnosis and symptoms of the different types of immune mediated diabetes - Beverly Thomassian

2:05 pm – 2:25 pm                        Break and visit exhibitors

2:25 pm – 3:30 pm                        Describe clinical manifestations of type 2, GDM, type 3, type 3c and MODY - Beverly Thomassian

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm                        Practical approaches to treat these different types of diabetes presentations in clinical care – Dr. Alan Parsa

Registration Link: 

Contact:   Naomi Fukuda, [email protected]

CEU: 6.5 hours for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, dieticians and social workers

Objectives:

1. State 3 changes and updates to the annual ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes.
2. List at least one key element of the discussed standards that improve clinical care for people with diabetes.
3. Describe strategies to use the ADA hyperglycemia algorithm to determine appropriate use of the latest medications that address hyperglycemia and cardiorenal health.
4. Discuss the diagnosis and symptoms of the different types of immune mediated diabetes.  
5. Describe clinical manifestations of type 2, GDM, type 3, type 3c and MODY.
6. Share practical approaches to treat these different types of diabetes presentations in clinical care.

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 JA4008258-0000-25-259-L01-P. This knowledge-based activity has been approved for 6.5 contact hour(s)

American Medical Association (AMA) Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 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 6.5 ANCC contact hours.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 10977, for 6.5 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 6.5 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 6.5 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 6.5 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.