10 Tips to Kick Off Your Diabetes Management in 2025
This Session Will Empower You to Tackle the Most Important Areas of Diabetes Management:
- Setting achievable health goals that stick
- Exercises to help with longevity
- Realistic steps for weight loss
- Strategies for better glucose control
- Important vitals to measure overall health
- Support to keep you motivated to achieve better diabetes control
Q&A with Drs. E & P – Your questions answered, plus actionable tips on managing diabetes and overall wellness by two expert endocrinologists who have been living with diabetes since they were 15 years old!
MEET YOUR FACULTY
*STEVEN V. EDELMAN, MD
Founder & Director, TCOYD; Endocrinologist, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine; Director, Diabetes Care Clinic, VA Medical Center San Diego
Dr. Edelman is a professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System of San Diego. Dr. Edelman, who has type 1 diabetes himself, has written more than 200 articles, five books, and has won numerous awards for teaching and humanitarianism. He has been chosen by the medical students at UCSD as the ‘teacher of the year’ numerous times. Among his many honors, Dr. Edelman has received the ‘Diabetes Educator Of The Year’ award by the American Diabetes Association, the ‘Distinction in Endocrinology’ award by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and named ‘Top 1% of U.S. Endocrinologists’ by US News and World Report.
*JEREMY PETTUS, MD
Type 1 Track & Professional Education Director, Endocrinologist, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine
Dr. Jeremy Pettus was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 15 years old. Since that time he has dedicated his career to educating and treating others like himself. He is currently an Endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. There, he focuses primarily on clinical trials to develop and test new and innovative therapies for people living with diabetes. These include studies ranging from medications to reverse or slow the disease once it occurs, to islet cell transplantation strategies, to device studies such as artificial pancreas technology. As somebody who has the disease himself, sees patients with type 1, and is actively working on curing/treating the disease, we are honored to have him at TCOYD.
