A panel of experts will take a closer look at changes to the American Diabetes Association® Standards of Care in Diabetes. Eric L. Johnson, MD, said that while many cornerstones of diabetes care remain in place, several topics warrant new emphasis, including sleep health, social determinants of health, hypertension, and medications.

Two experts will present research on eliminating senescent cells that impact diabetes and aging-related metabolic disease. James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD, will discuss the use of senolytic drugs, and Anil Bhushan, PhD, will share his immunotherapy approach to eliminate senescent cells.

A panel of diabetes and cardiovascular experts, including Jan Borén, MD, PhD, will discuss cardiovascular disease and people with diabetes. The symposium will cover contributing factors to cardiovascular residual risk, new drug targets, and methods to assess disease.

As part of a panel in the ADA Diabetes Journal Symposium, Jonathan Z. Long, PhD, will discuss signaling pathways in energy metabolism, including exercise-induced mediators of body adiposity. He will also share cutting-edge research using a cell-type-specific proteomic approach.

In recent years, telehealth technology has been more readily available and effective in connecting providers and patients. Jennifer Raymond, MD, MCR, will make the case for using telehealth in psychological care, while Michael A. Harris, PhD, will make the case for more research into telehealth models before wide adoption for this kind of care.

Sarah C. Westen will explain what the Psychosocial Subcommittee of the Youth Strategies Committee has accomplished over the past two years. She will share videos created by the team as well as strategies to help improve communication between health care teams and children and their families.

“Sip & Chat” with Alice Cheng, MD, FRCPC, and Michael Natter, MD, on Sunday in the Exhibit Hall. Dr. Cheng, co-host of the Diabetes Care “On Air” podcast and Scientific Sessions Meeting Planning Committee Chair, will interview Dr. Natter, a visual artist and endocrinologist, on how his artistic eye influenced his medical practice.

As the 83rd Scientific Sessions got underway at the San Diego Convention Center, attendees gathered in the Exhibit Hall on Friday evening for a Networking Reception with exhibitors. In addition to providing an opportunity to engage with industry leaders, the event offered a preview of the Poster Hall and a venue to connect with friends…

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, who led the Human Genome Project, welcomed attendees to the 83rd Scientific Sessions with a message about the potential of omics data to drive new avenues of research into complex diseases like diabetes. Already, genome-wide association studies take information about common variations in the genome to identify statistically significant differences…

Pathway to Stop Diabetes® researchers, including Aleksandar D. Kostic, PhD, presented their new approaches for working toward a cure for this pervasive disease. These investigators are looking at the gut microbiome, cloaked beta-cells, branched-chain amino acid, dysregulation of the gut-brain axis by sugar, and diabetes distress with new perspectives with funding from the American Diabetes…