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The Huddle: Conversations with the Diabetes Care Team features perspectives, issues and updates to inform your practice and elevate your role.
Diabetes Podcast
Diabetes Care & Education Podcasts
As a member of the diabetes care team, you know professional growth can move you and the people you serve forward. The Huddle is where you'll find diabetes podcasts that share perspectives from fellow professionals on issues and updates in the field.
Our podcasts on diabetes, prediabetes and cardiometabolic care ‒ from advocacy to technology ‒ can inform your practice, elevate your role and ultimately benefit your clients.
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Latest Diabetes Podcast Episodes
Episode Summary
Jasmine Gonzalvo, PharmD, MPH, CDCES, FADCES, and Honey Yang Estrada, MPH, CHW, join this episode to discuss the vital role of community health workers (CHWs) in diabetes care. They share strategies for recruiting CHWs, integrating them into interprofessional care teams, and leveraging their lived experience to build trust and address barriers beyond the clinic walls. The conversation emphasizes listening to CHWs, fostering sustainable partnerships, and shifting power to communities—not just checking a box—to reduce disparities and drive better outcomes.
Episode Summary
Jasmine Gonzalvo, PharmD, MPH, CDCES, FADCES, joins The Huddle to discuss the importance of curiosity, effective communication and cultural sensitivity in diabetes care. She shares her personal approach to exploring barriers to insulin in clients and highlights how motivational interviewing can be a powerful tool in navigating treatment conversations—especially when addressing common misconceptions about insulin. The conversation emphasizes the importance of open-ended questions, recognizing personal biases, and creating safe spaces for honest dialogue. By nurturing relationships and meeting patients where they are, diabetes care and education specialists can better support lasting behavior change and improve health outcomes.
This episode is sponsored by Lilly.
Resources
Nahid Dehghan-Nayeri, Fatemeh Ghaffari, Tahereh Sadeghi, Naser Mozaffari; Effects of Motivational Interviewing on Adherence to Treatment Regimens Among Patients With Type 1 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Diabetes Spectr 1 May 2019; 32 (2): 112–117.
Guy E H M Rutten, Heidi Van Vugt, Eelco de Koning - Person-centered diabetes care and patient activation in people with type 2 diabetes: BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care 2020;8:e001926.
Entwistle VA, Carter SM, Cribb A, McCaffery K. Supporting patient autonomy: the importance of clinician-patient relationships. J Gen Intern Med. 2010 Jul;25(7):741-5. doi: 10.1007/s11606-010-1292-2. Epub 2010 Mar 6. PMID: 20213206; PMCID: PMC2881979.
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Episode Summary
Becky Sulik, RDN, LD, CDCES, and Bethany Long, BSN, RN, CDCES, join us to discuss how automated insulin delivery systems (AID), like the Omnipod 5, are transforming diabetes management and making mealtime bolusing easier. Becky and Bethany share insights on the Omnipod 5 AID system, including user-friendly built-in features that facilitate onboarding and increase carb awareness skills in a variety of people with diabetes. The episode highlights real-world applications and personal stories that diabetes care and education specialists can utilize in practice to quickly onboard and empower their clients today. This episode was supported by Insulet. A guest featured on this show has a commercial relationship with Insulet, and another guest is an employee of the company. The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the views or positions of Insulet.
Resources
- Omnipod resources for healthcare professionals: www.omnipod.com/hcp
- Omnipod 5 Custom Foods blog post: www.omnipod.com/hcp/blog/tips-guidelines/custom-foods
- Omnipod 5 Custom Foods brochure: www.omnipod.com/sites/default/files/omnipod-5_hcp_custom-foods-guide_us-english.pdf
- Omnipod 5 simulator app for iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/omnipod-5-simulator/id1552469689
- Omnipod 5 simulator app on Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.insulet.simulator&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
References: Davis GM, et al. Simplified Meal Bolus Strategies for the Omnipod®5 Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) System in People with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D): Sub-Analysis of the SECURE-T2D Study. Presented at: ATTD; March 19-22, 2025; Amsterdam, NL. Post-hoc analysis limits conclusions. Insulet Data on file. RF-062025-00012
Important safety information: The Omnipod® 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System is a single hormone insulin delivery system intended to deliver U-100 insulin subcutaneously for the management of type 1 diabetes in persons aged 2 and older requiring insulin and type 2 diabetes in persons aged 18 and older. Rx only. WARNING: Do not use SmartAdjust™ technology for people under the age of 2 or who require less than 5 U of insulin per day. Visit omnipod.com/safety for complete safety information.
Episode Summary
On this episode of the Huddle, Kelly Postiglione Cook, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, CDCES, BC-ADM, and Sean Oser, MD, MPH, CDCES have a conversation about the importance of utilizing automated insulin delivery systems, like the iLet bionic pancreas, more widely in primary care. They provide insight into a study that evaluated the success of implementing use of the iLet bionic pancreas in a primary care setting, how the results illustrated that this technology can be more widely utilized in these settings, and the role diabetes care and education specialists can play in this work. This episode is sponsored by Beta Bionics.
Resources
Bionic Pancreas Research Group. Multicenter, randomized trial of a bionic pancreas in type 1 diabetes. N Engl J Med 2022;387:1161-1172 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2205225
Russell SJ, Selagamsetty R, Damiano E. Real-world efficacy of the iLet bionic pancreas in adults and children during the first eighteen months of commercial availability. Presented at the American Diabetes Association 85th Scientific Sessions, June 20-23, 2025, Chicago, IL.
Oser SM, Putman MS, Russel SJ, et al. Assessing the iLet Bionic Pancreas deployed in primary care and via telehealth: a randomized clinical trial. Clin Diabetes 2025; cd240104. https://doi.org/10.2337/cd24-0104
Oser C, Parascando JA, Kostiuk M, et al. Experiences of people with type 1 diabetes using the iLet bionic pancreas in primary care: A qualitative analysis. Clin Diabetes 2024 https://doi.org/10.2337/cd24-0060.
Sulik B, Postiglione Cook K, MacLeod J. Meals no longer need to be math problems: Shifting from precise carbohydrate counting to a continuum of carbohydrate awareness as automated insulin delivery advances. Diabetes Technology and Obesity Medicine 2025;1(1):79-83. DOI: 10.1089/dtom.2025.0010.
Learn more about Beta Bionics here: https://www.betabionics.com/
Explore the latest in diabetes technology on danatech: danatech l Diabetes Technology Education for Healthcare Professionals
Learn more about a two-part course on integrating diabetes technology into primary care, put on through the collaboration of AANP and ADCES:
- Part 1: Integrating Diabetes Technology into Primary Care Part 1: Overview and Clinical Scenarios
- Part 2: Integrating Diabetes Technology into Primary Care Part 2: Interactive Case Studies
Dive deeper into how diabetes technology can be incorporated into primary care on another recent episode of The Huddle featuring Kathryn Evans Kreider DNP, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP: https://thehuddle.simplecast.com/episodes/embracing-diabetes-technology-in-primary-care