Continuing Education (CE) credits and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are available at no-cost to eligible health professionals. Please see below for available CE/CME credits.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists and The American Kidney Fund. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Activity ID: 203756476

This activity’s accreditation expires 9/16/2028

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists: To satisfy the requirements for renewal of certification for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education (CBDCE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers (www.cbdce.org). CBDCE does not approve continuing education. The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is on the CBDCE list of Approved Providers.

American Medical Association (AMA): Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hours. This activity discusses .25 contact hours of pharmacotherapeutic content.

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR): CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 1.0 Continuing Professional Education unit(s) (CPEU) for completion of this activity. Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (1 IPCE credits = 1 CPEU). If the activity is dietetics related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (1 hour/60 minutes = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Logs.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 general continuing education credits.

NCHEC designation statement: Sponsored by The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1.0.

National Association of Nephrology Technicians/Technologists (NANT): Approval for contact hours is pending.

Disclosure information for participants:

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES) requires anyone in a position to affect or control continuing education content (e.g., authors, presenters, and program planners) to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. It is the responsibility of ADCES to mitigate and disclose all relevant conflicts of interest. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of the presentation.

Relevant disclosures (or lack thereof) among education activity planners and faculty are as follows:

Speaker disclosures:

• Shahzia Lakhani, MSN, NP - No financial relationships to report.

Planners:

• Jemetra Collins, BS - No financial relationships to report.
• Renita Kibuuka, MPH - No financial relationships to report.
• Dalia Kawas, PA-C - Relevant financial relationship to disclose. Stock ownership in Pfizer, Novo Nordisk, Merck, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
• Alicia Lawrence, LMSW - No financial relationships to report.
• Michael Spigler, MCHES^® - No financial relationships to report.

Disclosure and Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships: All identified relevant financial relationships of interest have been mitigated.