With so many facets for diabetes care, it’s impossible to learn everything you need to know in quarterly appointments, even after many years of living with the disease. The Children’s Diabetes Foundation and the Barbara Davis Center partnered together to bring back the virtual EPIC Diabetes Conference to give patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare providers an in-depth look on Diabetes in the Future.

The Fifth Annual EPIC Diabetes Conference focused on connectivity and offered two different tracks for

attendees to tailor their experience: pediatric and adult. Sessions covered a variety of topics including Adult & Pediatric Diabetes Technologies, The Future of Non-Insulin Therapeutics for Pediatrics,

Anticipating Needs in a Changing Environment, and Weight Management. The event provided attendees the opportunity to improve their individual care, embrace the diabetes community, and reinforce the fact that they are not alone with this disease. This year’s conference, virtual for the second consecutive year brought together hundreds of people from 19 states and 5 different conuntries.

Workshops included a 15-minute presentation by each speaker, followed by 45 minutes for questions from attendees. The format allowed attendees the opportunity to connect directly with Colorado’s top endocrinologists and diabetes specialists in real time, even though they weren’t in the same room. Keynote speaker Lori Sussel, PhD, provided an in-depth presentation, Working Towards a Cure, discussing the recent progress and challenges in developing new treatments for type 1 diabetes, including the generation of alternative sources of insulin-producing cells and novel transplantation approaches. She also presented is the Research Director of the Barbara Davis Diabetes Center (BDC) and Director of the NIDDK-funded University of Colorado Diabetes Research Center. She received her graduate degree from Columbia University Medical School and pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Other presenters and moderators were Halis Akturk, MD, David Saxon, MD, Greg Forlenza, MD, Brigitte Frohnert, MD, PhD, Elizabeth Buschur, MD, Holly O’Donnell, PhD, Dan Bessesen, MD, Jennifer Tilden, LCSW, Kalie Tommerdahl, MD, and Sarit Polsky, MD, MPH.

Did you miss the conference? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Visit http://www.epicconferences.org/2022-presentations/ to view slides from the virtual event.