Bennet Dunlap has teamed with Christel Aprigliano to create the Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition or DPAC for short. Easy diabetes advocacy means DPAC will do the time-consuming work for you.

Join us on TuDiabetes for a live presentation and question-and-answer session with 
Gary Scheiner, founder of 
Integrated Diabetes Services and author of 
Think Like a Pancreas, 
The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting, and now Until there is a Cure: the Latest and Greatest in Diabetes Self-Care.

This talk will focus on managing diabetes-related complications through complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). CAM for diabetes management includes dietary supplements, herbs, acupuncture, hypnosis, yoga and meditation. Sumi will discuss the therapies that have been shown to be effective, as well as those that appear to be ineffective or harmful.

Metformin is often prescribed in the treatment of diabetes, but it does more than lower blood glucose levels. Dr. Peng will discuss the cardiovascular benefits of metformin, in order to provide a deeper understanding of this useful medication.

This talk will examine factors that contribute to diabetes burnout, including what role the healthcare team may play in perpetuating diabetes burnout, and what strategies can be implemented to address burnout by the patient, and in what ways the healthcare team can facilitate managing burnout in patients with diabetes.

This live-streamed interview will focus on Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes, specifically the following:

1. The importance of having a health screening before engaging in exercise
2. Importance of understanding one's risk(s)
3. Avoiding a hypoglycemic event
4. Acute and chronic adaptations to exercise
5. Exercise recommendations
6. HbA1c - What exactly is it?

Gastric bypass surgery may improve type 2 diabetes, and may enable some people with type 2 diabetes to go off certain medications. Heidi will share her own journey with type 2 diabetes and life after bariatric surgery.

In this presentation Vai Jun will talk about the relationship between anxiety and diabetes management, as anxiety and stress go hand-in-hand and can potentially affect one’s quality of life.

1:00pm PT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET, 9pm GMT What time is this where you are? Zoe Heineman is the founder of "Ha!" or "Hypoglycemia Awareness".  Based in New York City, […]

In this twitter chat, common questions about diabetes will be asked, discussed and answered by folks in the know! Join representatives from TuDiabetes (@diabeteshf), EsTuDiabetes(@esDiabeteshf), FDA (@FDAenEsapnol), USAgov in Spanish (@GobiernoUSA), Salud Today (@SaludToday), and USAgov in English (@USAgov), to learn, share, discuss and raise awareness about this incredibly important and increasingly common condition.