Welcome to the DiabetesSisters Life Class Webinar Series! In our ongoing efforts to educate, support, and advocate for women with diabetes, these webinars serve to meet women where they are - whether that's in the office, at home, or traveling. Check out the Life Class Webinar schedule below and mark your calendar. In case you miss one, all past webinars are archived below.
Listen to past DiabetesSisters Life Class Webinar Series Podcasts: |
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2017
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June 21
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Bright Spots & Landmines, A Conversation with Adam Brown
Adam Brown’s acclaimed diaTribe column, Adam’s Corner, has brought life-transforming diabetes tips to over 600,000 people since 2013. In his book Bright Spots & Landmines he shares the specific food, mindset, exercise, and sleep strategies that have had a transformative impact on his diabetes. In this special webinar Adam will share tips and answer your questions. |
Adam Brown
Senior Editor, diaTribe
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April 19
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Diabetes and Physical Fitness
Do you want to get a better understanding of how different types of exercise affect people living with diabetes and how to manage your blood sugars during and after exercise? In this session, you’ll learn how to find your unique formula for exercising while balancing you blood sugars, setting you up for long term success. Exercise is a privilege we should all be able to enjoy, and with the right knowledge and tools, it can be done! |
Christel Oerum
Founder of DiabetesStrong.com |
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March 22
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5 Things Women with Diabetes Should Know About Menopause
This webinar is presented by the founder of My Menopause magazine and writer of a weekly blog for Huffington Post on women's health and wellness. His specialties are menopause symptoms, stress, weight control, sleep, and diabetes. |
Mache Seibel, MD
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February 8
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Diabetes and Heart Health
Diabetes affects 1 in 10 US adults and patient with diabetes have a higher prevalence of heart disease and increased risk of heart attack compared to patients without diabetes. In this webinar, you will learn about risk factors for heart disease commonly associated with diabetes and how you can decrease your risk of heart disease. |
Sarah Alexander, MD
Asst. Professor of Medicine
Rush University Medical Center
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January 18
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Let's Get Organized! The Key to Diabetes Management
Life with diabetes can be overwhelming and often difficult to organize. Whether you are at work, home or school, diabetes care and management should be properly addressed. This webinar will focus on organizing your busy schedule, so you can optimize your time and improve your diabetes management. We will explore strategies to help you organize your goals, diabetes supplies, daily routine, travel, medical paperwork and kitchen. |
Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN
2015 AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year
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2016
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November 16
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Be Healthy. Be You. BeYoutiful.
Do you ever feel self-conscious about your Diabetes care? Or do you ever
struggle to know how to talk about it with those around you? Have you ever considered how these issues impact your overall health and well-being? Tune into this webinar to hear effective ways to approach these tricky situations and boost your confidence as a woman with diabetes? |
Kimberly Goodson |
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Appeals and Denials
The complicated world of private and public payers requires people with
diabetes to understand how the system works in order to make a case for access to the tools, drugs, and education that we need in order to live well. Come learn from patients and insurance professionals who've won access battles and have the scars to prove it. Join prominent patient advocates Melissa Lee and Cherise Shockley and learn how to navigate this windy road. |
Melissa Lee and
Cherise Shockley |
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| September 21 |
Get Ahead of the Holidays: Tips for Making It Easier
Settle back in your own time and enjoy a "tip filled" hour of information to help
make management a bit easier. Fall begins soon and tends to be a time of year things start to "go south" due to so many holidays one after another.
This webinar is packed with graet tips to give an idea of how to stay on top of management and still enjoy the fall/winter holiday fun! |
Jennifer Smith,
RD, LD CDE |
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DiabetesSisters deal with the twin challenges (among others) of achieving
glycemic control along with managing their weight. Though various low calorie sweeteners have been available for decades, myths and questions about their safety as well as effectiveness for weight and glucose control still abound. Join Hope Warshaw as she provides a recap* of the evidence-based research on the safety of low calorie sweeteners and offers practical advice for integrating one or more into a healthy diabetes eating plan. *Warshaw presented "Are We Giving the Right Advice? Consumer Confusion Regarding Low-Calorie Sweeteners among People with Diabetes," at the 2016 American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions in New Orleans on June 13, 2016. |
Hope Warshaw, MMSc,
RD, CDE, BC-ADM
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| May 18 |
Diabetes Burnout
Diabetes Burnout doesn't have to mean you've completely given up on your diabetes! It can simply mean you're really tired of the nonstop work around nutrition, exercise, medications, and oh yeah, checking your blood sugar. Ginger is going to talk about working your way through burnout without trying to suddenly "cure" your burnout overnight. (Sadly, she doesn't have a cure for your diabetes either.) Diabetes Burnout is something we all go through--and there's a way to work through it that's motivating and empowering! |
Ginger Viera, CHC, CPT
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| April 20 |
Natural Ways to Reduce Allergies
Do you suffer with annoying spring allergies symptoms...coughing, sneezing, runny nose, headaches? Why is this happening? Your immune system is overreacting when it shouldn't be. The good news is there are easy ways to calm it down and help you feel better. There are simple steps you can take with food and supplements which will dramatically reduce or avoid those symptoms, allowing you to breath freely and clear this spring! |
Jody Stanislaw, ND, CDE
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| March 21 |
Diabetes & Kidney Disease
Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease, accounting for almost half of new cases. About 30% of patients with type 1 diabetes, and 10-40% of those with type 2, suffer from kidney failure. Learn the steps you need to take to protect your kidneys and decrease your chances of developing Diabetic Kidney Disease, also known as Diabetic Nephropathy. In this webinar you will become familiar with the risk factors, symptoms, treatment, and steps to prevent Diabetic Kidney Disease. |
Nancy Lepain, RN, MSN, APN-BC
National Kidney Foundation of Illinois |
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| January 20 |
Goal Setting
Do your New Years resolutions fall apart by the end of January? You are not alone! It's time to set realistic goals so you can start to reset old behaviors and live a healthy life with diabetes. Susan Weiner, the 2015 AADE Diabetes Educator of the year will share her tips and suggestions on goal setting and mindful behaviors. This is your opportunity to give yourself the gift of health in 2016. |
Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN
2015 AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year
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2015
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| November 18 |
Tips for Making It Easier (audio jarbled at the beginning)
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Jennifer Smith, RD, LD, CDE
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| September 16 |
Diana Naranjo, PhD
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| June 17 |
Regina Shirley, RD, LDN
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| May 20 |
Ginger Vieira
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| March 18 | Rajeev S. Ramchandran, MD, MBA Flaum Eye Institute, U of Rochester Mary Bregantini, Prevent Blindness |
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| January 21 | Diabetes Organizing |
Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN,
2015 AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year
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2014
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| November 21 |
Brandy Barnes, MSW &
Natalie Strand, MD |
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| September 17 |
Mache Seibel, MD
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| May 14 |
Rhonda Merwin, PhD
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| February 19 |
Annabelle Volgman, MD
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