Diabetes Update and Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Assess when to use the new drugs for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes;• Make changes in glucose targets and therapies with changes inhealth and age of patients with Type 2 diabetes;• Suggest approaches that can help patients lose weight;• Prescribe a physiological insulin regimen and instruct patients on how to adjust insulin for food, exercise and stress;• Manage commonly encountered diabetes issues (clinical cases);• Discuss the treatment of diabetes related eye disorders;• Discuss the use of continuous glucose monitors and pumpsand appreciate the progress being made towards a closed loop system (electronic pancreas);• Determine which patients should be considered for pancreas transplant currently and islet transplant in the near future.