2025 Agenda
October 16th & 17th, 2025
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
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7:00 – 8:00 AM |
Registration, Breakfast & Visit Exhibitors |
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8:00 – 8:15 AM |
Welcome and Announcements |
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8:15 – 9:15 AM |
Rational Management of Diabetes in the Elderly |
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9:15 – 10:15 AM |
Advocacy & Diabetes: Be the Voice for Your Community Wendy Mobley-Bukstein, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CHWC, NASM-CPT, FAPhA, FADCES |
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10:15 – 10:30 AM |
MORNING BREAK (Visit Exhibitors & Networking) |
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10:30 - 11:30 AM |
Bariatric Surgery & Diabetes |
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11:30 – 12:30 PM |
Breakout Session #1 - Diabetes, Disability and Taking Medication Lisa Golden, MA.Ed.HD, CRC, CDCES |
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Breakout Session #2 - The Real-World Diabetes Care and Education of GDM and Diabetes in Pregnancy |
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12:30 – 1:30 PM |
LUNCH BREAK (Visit Exhibitors & Networking) |
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1:30 – 2:30 PM |
Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease Michael Shannon, MD |
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2:30 - 3:30 PM |
Partnering for Progress: How Health Coaching Empowers People with Diabetes Laura Del Guerra |
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3:30 - 3:45 PM |
AFTERNOON BREAK (Visit Exhibitors & Networking) |
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3:45 - 5:00 PM |
Partner Showcase Melissa House, MBA – Montana Diabetes Program Alison Fuller – Connect Haley Cote - Innovation Nadine Elmore – Montana Health Network
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5:00 - 5:30 PM |
BREAK BEFORE EVENING SOCIAL |
| 5:30 - 7:30 PM | Awards & Networking Social (Hors d’ oeuvres and a cash bar will be available; In-person attendees) |
Friday, October 17th, 2025
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7:00 – 7:45 AM |
Registration, Breakfast & Visit Exhibitors |
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7:45 – 8:00 AM |
Welcome and Announcements |
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8:00 – 9:00 AM |
When One Gene Changes Everything: A Practical Guide to Monogenic Diabetes Abdallah (Abe) Elias, MD, FACMG, HCLD(ABB) |
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9:00 – 10:00 AM |
Activity Anywhere and Elsewhere Mary Thane, PT |
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10:00 – 10:15 AM |
MORNING BREAK (Visit Exhibitors & Networking) |
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10:15 – 11:15 AM |
Working with People with Intellectual or Developmental Disability and Diabetes |
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11:15 - 12:15 PM |
In My Medication Management Era... Updates in Drug Therapy Management of Diabetes 2025 Wendy Mobley-Bukstein, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES, CHWC, NASM-CPT, FAPhA, FADCES |
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12:15 – 1:15 PM |
LUNCH BREAK (Visit Exhibitors & Networking) |
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1:15 - 2:15 PM |
Thriving in Healthcare: Practical Tools for Resilience and Burnout Prevention Karen Lum |
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2:15 - 3:15 PM |
Breakout Session #1 - Nutrition and Gestational Diabetes |
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Breakout Session #2 - Engage – Enable – Empower – Elevate: PROMOTING SUCCESS IN DIABETES MANAGEMENT Ashley Barto, MS, RDN, LN, NBC-HWC – Blackfeet Indian Health Services Valerie Ricker, RD, CDCES - IHS Raichell Dorland Roan, DrPH, RDN, LN, CLC – Crow Service Unit |
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3:20 – 4:00 PM |
Wrap Up, Evaluation and Awards |