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Improving Diabetes Outcomes

The 2023 T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Learning Session: Sustaining Performance Improvement in Diabetes Care

November 14-15, 2023

Westin New York Grand Central
212 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
With clinical tours at Mount Sinai and NYU Langone Hospitals

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 Icahn School at Mount Sinai and NYU Langone.

By the end of this learning session we want participants to:

Know
We are making a positive impact on diabetes through the contributions of our academic, industry, medical, and research partners.

Feel
Energized that we have the tools to effectively mobilize clinical teams and optimistic about the resources shared across T1DX-QI through collaboration.

Do
Co-produce and implement new PDSA cycles and share results with the QI Collaborative.

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

– The T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Team

A Special Thank You To

Supporting Companies

Journal of Diabetes

November 14–15, 2023, T1DX-QI Learning Session, Journal of Diabetes Abstracts

7:00 – 8:00 am

Breakfast

Ballroom Foyer
3rd Floor

8:00 – 8:10 am

Welcome and Logistics

Nicole Rioles, MA, Director of Clinical Partnerships, T1D Exchange

Ballroom
3rd Floor

8:15 – 8:55 am

Introduction and Welcome by New York PIs

Diabetes Care in NY Adult Panel Final
Facilitated by Devin Steenkamp, MBChB, Boston Medical Center

Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH; Carol Levy, MD, CDCES; Lauren Golden, MD; and Ruth Weinstock, MD, PhD

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session, members will be able to summarize and explain how diabetes care is practiced in the state of New York, including the access conditions for diabetes related resources.

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to describe and summarize the key infrastructure and systems that support the adult endocrine clinics so that its team can offer high quality care to people with diabetes.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

9:00 – 9:20 am

Nov 2023 QI LS T1D Exchange Overview

Dave Walton, MBA, CEO, T1D Exchange

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session, members will be able to identify, summarize and explain the different initiatives at T1D Exchange, including T1D Exchange Online Registry, Online Community, custom research studies that include PWD sharing survey and CGM data, and standalone study recruiting

Ballroom
3rd Floor

9:20 – 10:00 am

State of T1D_Ebekozien_11.13.23 Final

Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, T1D Exchange

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session, members will be able to identify, summarize and explain how QI Collaborative processes and frameworks in clinical practice care can improve diabetes outcomes.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

10:00 – 10:15 am

Break

10:15 – 11:15 am

Diabetes Care in NY Peds Panel Final
Facilitated by Todd Alonso, MD, Barbara Davis Center

Jennifer Sarhis, MD, Allison Mekhoubad, DO; Meredith Wilkes MD; David Hansen, MD; Siham Accacha, MD; Zoltan Antal, MD; and Mary Pat Gallagher, MD

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session, members will be able to summarize and explain how diabetes care is practiced in the state of New York, including the access conditions for diabetes related resources. At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to describe and summarize the key infrastructure and systems that support the pediatric endocrine clinics so that teams can offer high quality care to people with diabetes.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

11:20 am – 12:30 pm

Breakout #1

Health Equity
Moderator: Joyce Lee, MD, MPH, C.S Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan

Ballroom
3rd Floor

Psychosocial Support
Moderator: Sarah Lyons, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital

Consulate
3rd Floor

Access and Transitions of Care
Moderator: Manmohan Kamboj, MD, Nationwide Children’s

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this activity, learners will compare, differentiate, and analyze QI projects and project outcomes based on abstract sharing between clinics and propose and plan projects within their own clinic.

Embassy
3rd Floor

12:30 – 1:30 pm

Lunch

*time for networking and visiting educational room (Track 61)

Ballroom
3rd Floor

1:30 – 2:00 pm

International Comparisons in Diabetes Outcomes: Lessons from Abroad

David Maahs, MD, PhD, Stanford University 

Session Objective: At the end of this session, members will be able to identify and summarize health conditions for diabetes populations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

2:05 – 3:10 pm

Breakout #2

Ambassador
3rd Floor

New Therapies and Devices for Early Career Practitioners
Moderator: Linda DiMeglio, MD Indiana School of Medicine

Consulate
3rd Floor

Insights from T1D Exchange
Moderator: Abha Choudhary, MD, UT Southwestern.

  • T1DX-QI Portal Updates
    Ann Mungmode, Semior Product Manager, MPH, T1D Exchange
  • Insights from Advisory Committee
    Jeff Hitchcock and Amy Ohmer, T1D Exchange Advisory Committee Co-Chairs
  • Building QI Capacity
    Don Buckingham, MBOE, CPHQ, CSSBB, T1D Exchange

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to identify and summarize three distinct QI processes. Learners will also be able to summarize data comparisons from the Collaborative.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

3:10 – 3:20 pm

Time reserved for T1D Exchange Collaborative group photo

3:20 – 3:50 pm

Travel time to the Mount Sinai and NYU hospitals

Buses #1 and #2 Travel uptown to Mount Sinai clinics.

Bus #3 travels downtown to NYU Langone clinics.

People visiting the NYU clinics are encouraged to walk. It’s an 11-minute walk to the pediatric clinic and 18 minutes to the adult clinic.

4:00 – 5:00 pm

Clinic Tours: Mount Sinai and NYU clinics

Session objective: At the end of this session, members will be able to describe examples of new clinic infrastructure and practice flows from observing and adapting concepts from the clinics that are toured.

Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor, Suite 4-61

The Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, Adults, 5 E 98th Street, 3rd Floor

Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone: 430 E 34th St

NYU Langone Adults: 222 E 41st St 17th Floor

5:00 – 5:30 pm

Travel time back to hotel

Buses #1 and #2 Travel downtown from the Mount Sinai clinics. 

Bus #3 travels uptown from NYU Langone clinics. People visiting the NYU clinics are encouraged to walk. It’s an 11-minute walk from the pediatric clinic and 18 minutes from the adult clinic. 

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Dinner at Arno and Award Presentations 

  • Outstanding Adult PI: Ruth S. Weinstock, MD, PhD
  • Outstanding Pediatric PI,: Daniel J. DeSalvo, MD
  • Outstanding Coordinator: Alisha Virani, RD, CDCES, LD
  • Outstanding Adult Team: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
  • Outstanding Pediatric Team: University of Wisconsin

Dinner is a 19-minute walk from the hotel.

Buses will also be available, traveling to the restaurant and back to the hotel.

141 W 38th St
New York, NY 10018

7:00 – 8:00 am

Breakfast

Ballroom Foyer
3rd Floor

8:00 – 8:15 am

Welcome and Logistics
Nicole Rioles, MA, Director of Clinical Partnerships, T1D Exchange

Ballroom
3rd Floor

8:30 – 9:00 am

JDRF Vision
Sanjoy Dutta, PhD, JDRF

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to identify and name 2 factors that play a role in supporting early diabetes screening and communication strategies with patients, families, and care teams

Ballroom
3rd Floor

9:05 – 10:10 am

BO3 Insulin Delivery Final
Moderator: Viral Shah, MD, Barbara Davis Center

Consulate
3rd Floor

Building Your Career in T1D Research
Moderator: Linda DiMeglio, MD, Indiana University

Panel discussion on career journey and mentorship with:
Michael Harris, PhD
David Maahs, MD
Ruth Weinstock MD, PhD
Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH

Ballroom
3rd Floor

BO 3 Engagement Final
Moderator: Anastasia Albanese O’Neill, NP, PhD, CDCES

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this activity, learners will compare, differentiate, and analyze QI projects and project outcomes based off of abstract sharing between clinics and propose and plan projects within their own clinic.

Embassy
3rd Floor

10:10 – 10:25 am

Break

We welcome all in-person attendees to network and view the posters on display

10:25 – 10:45am

Remarks from David Panzirer and Gina Agiostratidou

Ballroom
3rd Floor

10:50 – 11:30am

Funders Panel Final
Moderator: Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, CPHQ , Chief Medical Officer, T1D Exchange

 Laurel Koester, MPH
Anne Koralova, PhD 
Danny Kovarik, MBA
Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, PhD, ARNP/PNP-BC, CDCES

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session learners will be informed of the strategic areas of focus and current funding priorities for two New York-based funders of T1D programs and research–The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and JDRF

Ballroom
3rd Floor

11:30 am – 12:00 pm

Supporting PwT1D to be Self-Advocates

Marissa Town, RN, BSN, CDCES, Children with Diabetes

Session Objective: At the end of this session, members will be able to identify and summarize how people who have been living with T1D can self-advocate in their chronic disease management.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch (Working Group Discussions)

Tables will be labeled in ballroom

*time for networking and visiting educational room (Track 61)

Ballroom
3rd Floor

1:05 – 2:25 pm

Committee and Working Group Presentations
Facilitated by Devin Steenkamp, MBChB, Boston Medical Center and Todd Alonso, MD, Barbara Davis Center

Session Objective: At the end of this session members will be able to strategize, develop and construct change ideas, practice flows and structure and daily processes to increase patient outcomes and patient experience in the clinical setting.

Topic areas:

Committee Report Out
Clinical Leadership (Todd Alonso MD and Devin Steenkamp, MBChB)

Glucose Monitoring (Lily Chao, MD, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and Marina Basina, MD Stanford Health)

Hybrid Closed Loop (Emily Coppedge, NP, CDE, Weil Cornell Medicineand Carol Levy, Ichan Mt Sinai)

Data Science (Marina Basina, MD, PhD and Joyce Lee, MD, MPH)

Transitions of Care (Faisal Malik, MD, MSHS, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Sarah Corathers, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Publications (Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH)

Diabetes Distress (Alissa Roberts, MD, Seattle Children’s Hospital and Devin Steenkamp, MBChB, Boston Medical Center)

Data Governance (Daniel DeSalvo, MD and Carol Levy, MD, CDCES)

 

QI Champion Panel LS 2023
Facilitated by: Whitney Beaton, MSN, RN, ACCNS-P, CDCES, University of Wisconsin

Amy Grant, DNP, RN, CPN, Cincinnati Children’s

Naomi Sullivan, MSN, MBA, RN, Lurie Children;s

Candice Williams, APRN, CPNP-PC, CDCES, Cook Children’s

Lydia Holly, BSN, RN, Children’s National

Don Buckingham, MBOE, CPHQ

Session Objective: At the conclusion of this session members will be able to identify and summarize high level accomplishments that the collaboration has achieved in 2023. Learners will be able to compile, integrate and develop QI tools, best practices, and strategize new projects.

Ballroom
3rd Floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ambassador

(3rd Floor)

2:30 – 2:50 pm

Living With Diabetes

Shivani Agarwal, MD, MPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Steven Sanchez

Ballroom
3rd Floor

2:50 – 3:00 pm

Wrap-up & Evaluation
Dave Walton, MBA, CEO T1D Exchange

Ballroom
3rd Floor