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The 8th Annual 2024 T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Learning Session 

The 2024 T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Learning Session 

November 11, 2024

Chicago Marriott Downton Magnificent Mile 5th Floor
540 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

With our team-based focus on contributing partners, clinical collaboration, and co-production with people living with diabetes, we are excited to share the agenda, give you a glimpse at the guest speakers travelling to this learning session, and highlight what we will get to see and hear from our co-hosts at the Ann and Robert Lurie Childrens and Northwestern Medicine.

Learning Session Objectives: 

  1. Synthesize a basis for the practice of delivering equitable, evidence based, cost effective diabetes care, both person-centered and population based in a learning health network. 
  2. Integrate current clinical science, health outcomes research, quality improvement methodologies, drug therapies, education, and technology into clinical practice. 
  3. Become more informed and involved in advocacy issues related to diabetes care.  
  4. To provide a forum for resident education on current clinical practice, relevant diabetes care, practice management, and advocacy issues in preparation for careers and competent and ethical diabetes clinicians.                                            

We are so glad to have you with us. Here’s to making life with diabetes better for everyone. 

 – The T1D Exchange QI Team 

Journal of Diabetes

November 11, 2024, T1DX-QI Learning Session, Journal of Diabetes Abstracts (Link Coming Soon)

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast and Awards

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

8:00-8:10 AM

Welcome, Logistics, and Thank You

Nicole Rioles, MA

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

8:10-8:40 AM

Introduction and Welcome  

 Clinical Leadership Co-Chairs (Francesco Vendrame, MD, PhD and Carla Demeterco-Berggren, MD, PhD)  

Diabetes Care in Chicago  by Chicago, IL PIs 

Grazia Aleppo, MD , Naomi Fogel, MD and Laura Levin, DO 

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

8:40-8:55 AM

Opening Remarks from T1D Exchange  

Dave Walton, MBA  

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

9:00-9:20 AM

State of the Collaborative  

Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, CPHQ  

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

9:20-10:05 AM

Early-Stage Diabetes Diagnosis and Treatment  

Keynote, Louis Philipson, MD, PhD, University of Chicago  

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

10:05-10:50 AM

Leading Sustainable Improvements: Being a Leader of your Team  

Moderated by: Manmohan Kamboj , MD

Lily Chao, MD, Sarah Corathers, MD, Louis Philipson, MD, PhD, and Marina Basina, MD

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

10:50-11:05 AM

Break

11:10-12:30 PM

Breakout 1

Diabetes Distress Training

Moderated by Kelsey Howard, PhD, Jillian Merrick, PhD, Katherine Semenkovich, PhD, Ryan Tweet, PsyD, PhD, Jill Weissberg-Benchell, PhD, CDCES

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

Implementing Successful Programs, Moderated by Sarah Lyons, MD

  1. Moving on Up: Employing a Mobile Care Center to Enhance Access to Care for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes, Gajanthan Muthuvel, MD
  2. Design and Launch of First Pediatric Specialty Value Based Program for T1D Patients, Luke Harris
  3. Implementation of Type 1 Diabetes Transition Clinic and Visit Checklist, Jordan Ross, MD
  4. Implementing High-Risk Programs at Four Pediatric Endocrinology Clinics in the T1D Exchange QI Collaborative, Ori Odugbesan, MD, MPH, CDCES

Ballroom A/B/C

Diabetes Devices, Moderated by Ryan McDonough, DO, FAAP

  1. Increasing continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) utilization in pediatric type 1 diabetes (T1D) patients with hemoglobin A1c values ≥ 8.5%, Patrick Hanley, MD
  2. Standardizing Insulin Pump Back-Up Plans: Improving Documentation and Patient Confidence Through Quality Improvement, Kai Jones, MD
  3. Optimizing Automated Insulin Delivery System use in Youth with Recent Onset T1D, Mili Vakharia, APRN, FNP-C, CDCES
  4. Improving Continuous Glucose Monitors Prescribing Behaviors in Primary Care, Jovan Milosavljevic, MD

Ballroom F/G/H

Reducing Disparities & Promoting Equitable Care, Moderated by Nirali Shah, MD

  1. BRIDGE (Barrier Reduction in Insulin Delivery for Greater Equity) Project: Increasing Insulin Pump Use in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes with a Language of Care Other than English, Samantha Goldklang, ARNP
  2. Reducing Disparities in Continuous Glucose Monitor Adoption and Use Among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Ashley Garrity, MPH
  3. CDCES Clinical Workflows Can Address Challenges and Barriers to Equitable Care in New Onset T1D, Jeannine Leverenz, RN, CDCES
  4. ConnecT1D Data Visualization: Informing Interventions and Equitable Improvement in Outcomes for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes, Amanda Howell, MPH, CPH

Denver-Kansas City Rooms

Age Related Diabetes Milestone, Moderated by: Elizabeth Mann, MD

  1. Ongoing Efforts for Increasing Retinopathy Screening at a Pediatric Diabetes Center: Jeniece Ilkowitz, BSN, RN, MA, CDCES
  2. Age-appropriate Self-management of Type 1 Diabetes: Claire Moore
  3. Diabetes Autonomy Milestones: Educator and Family Expectations: Jessica Schmitt, MD, MSHQS
  4.  Improving Microalbuminuria Screening Rates Among Pediatric Diabetes Patients: A Clinic-Wide Initiative: Sarah Lydia Holly, RN, BSN

Los Angeles- Scottsdale Rooms

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch and a Conversation with People with Diabetes Perspectives, Facilitated by Jeniece Ilkowitz, RN, MA, CDCES and Emily Coppedge, NP

Lakesha McDonald-Kee and Kobe Kee

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

1:30-2:20 PM

Poster Sessions and Networking

5th Fl

2:30-3:50 PM

Breakout 2

Insights on New Education Tools, Moderated by G. Todd Alonso, MD

  1. Standardizing Inpatient Nursing Diabetes Education, Elizabeth Gunckle, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
  2. New QI Tools and Methods, Don Buckingham Sr, MBOE, CPHQ, CSSBB
  3. T1DX-QI Screening and Monitoring Efforts, Emma Ospelt, MPH
  4. Best Practice Advisory Insights, Trevon Wright, MHA

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

SDOH and Depression Screening, Moderated by Roberto Izquierdo, MD

  1. Increasing Screening for Social Drivers of Health in Pediatric Diabetes, Barbara Liepman, RN, MSN, CDCES, CHWC
  2. Full-Scale Launch of Eating Disorder Screening at a Large Pediatric Diabetes Clinic, Claire Zimmerman
  3. Improving Depression Screening Rates among Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes using Limited Clinical Resources, Samantha Jimenez, MD
  4. Addressing Disparities in Diabetes Care: Implementing SDOH Screening at Diagnosis, Sarah Lydia Holly, BSN, RN

Ballroom A/B/C

Transitions of Care, Moderated by Stephanie Crossen, MD

  1. Y’all READDY for This? Embedding Transition Readiness Screening Across Centers in a Pediatric Diabetes Practice, Andrew Lavik, MD, PhD
  2. STRIDE Project: Supporting Transition Readiness in Diabetes Education, Sarah Rosenheck, DO
  3. Transition of Care of T1D Pediatric Population to Adult Services, Angela Mojica, MD
  4. Assessing Readiness to Transition to Adult Care among Young Adults with T1D, Jody Beth Grundman, MD

Ballroom, F/G/H

Type 2 Diabetes, Moderated by Francesco Vendrame, MD, PhD

  1. Improving Prescribing Rates of GLP1 Receptor Agonists (GLP1- RA) in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, Yasi Mohsenian, MPH
  2. Use of Non-Insulin Medications in Youth with T2D, Mili Vakharia, APRN, FNP-C, CDCES
  3. Developing a Tracking Tool for Insulin Pump Prescriptions Among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes, Amanda Perkins, NP, CPNP, MPH
  4. Increasing Lipid Profile Screening in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes, Puja Singh, MD

Denver-Kansas City Rooms

Positive Interventions for High-Risk Populations, Moderated by: Halis K. Akturk, MD

  1. Implementation of the ASQ suicide risk screening in routine pediatric diabetes care, Risa Wolf, MD
  2. Family Centered Team Meetings for People with HbA1c >9%
    for >12 months, Jeniece Ilkowitz, RN, MA, CDCES
  3. Insulin Cost and Rationing in the Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Population, Lauren Waterman, MD
  4. ConnecT1D: Proactive Outreach Intervention to Improve Equitable Care for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes, Jennifer Kelly, APRN

Los Angeles-Scottsdale Rooms

4:00-4:45 PM

Panel Discussion: Embracing IT, EHR and Data Integration, Moderated by Mark Clements, MD, PhD, Children’s Mercy

Juan Espinoza, MD; Nestoras Mathioudakis, MD, MHS; David Maahs, MD, PhD; and Nana-Hawa Yayah Jones, MD

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

4:45-5:10 PM

Updates from the MannKind Corporation

Grazia Aleppo, MD

Chicago Ballroom, D/E

5:10-5:15 PM

Closout

Nicole RIoles, MA

Chicago Ballroom, D/E