This educational activity consists of recorded presentations from Innovations in Wellness and Disease Management held in Miami Beach, Florida on February 3-4, 2011.
This activity focuses on a proactive approach to health care management that promotes effective, personalized health care, and targeted wellness strategies both to prevent chronic diseases and improve the quality of life for those living with them. Conference faculty will identify successful methods to promote positive health behaviors through education, motivation and behavior change, as well as to empower consumers to make wiser health care decisions and live healthier lifestyles. Additionally, this conference will address how successful chronic disease management can make a real difference by helping to prevent health crises and deterioration, while enabling people living with chronic conditions to attain the best possible quality of life.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to

1. Explain the importance of motivational interviewing to patient-centered care, in particular for ambivalent or resistant patients with diabetes
2. Explore the correlation between readiness to change and clinical success in a diabetes educational program
3. State the prevalence of depression in patients with diabetes, and explain how it can worsen the medical prognosis by increasing the likelihood of hyperglycemia, diabetes complications, and mortality
4. Discuss methods of diagnosing and screening for depression, the effectiveness of various depression treatments, and their effects on glycemic control functioning
5. State the governmental and nongovernmental programs that are available to help cover health care expenses for patients with diabetes, and identify which patients qualify for assistance

Faculty
Mary de Groot, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Diabetes Translation Research Center
Indianapolis, Indiana

Mary Ann Hodorowicz, RD, LDN, MBA, CDE, CEC
Mary Ann Hodorowicz Consulting, LLC
Palos Heights, Illinois

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Sponsored By
This activity is sponsored by OptumHealth Education.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported by Allos Therapeutics, Amgen, Novartis Oncology, Shire, Cephalon Oncology, Novartis, sanofi aventis, National Marrow Donor Program, novo nordisk, American Regent, Gilead, and LifeScan.

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