Title: Animated Diabetes Patient: An Animated Patient’s Guide to Type 2 Diabetes
Release date: June 15, 2014
Expiration date: June 15, 2015

Technical Requirements
Animated Diabetes Patient is an internet-based educational program available on Mac and PC. Click here to view Technical Requirements.

Jointly provided by the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower and Prime Medic, Inc. in collaboration with Postgraduate Institute for Medicine.

This activity is supported by educational grants from:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Eli Lilly

Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of patients and caregivers affected by type 2 diabetes.

Learning Objectives

1. To enhance communications between type 2 diabetes patients and their physicians by increasing understanding of the complexities of their disease, its risks, symptoms, therapeutic options, management strategies, and outcomes.
2. To explain and contrast the complex evidence-based data and scientific concepts of type 2 diabetes and provide understanding on the role of different therapeutic agents - their risks and benefits, their clinical utility in disease management, and treatment, as well as their safety, side-effects, and treatment in the spectrum of management options related to diabetes.
3. To instruct patients on the needs for and risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and provide understanding of interventions and how this may benefit their outcomes, as well as what the potential outcomes may be, as part of enhancing patient informed consent and promoting dialogue between patients and physicians.

Faculty

Lubna Mirza, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Norman Regional Hospital
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tan Pham, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Norman Regional Hospital
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Priya Manjoo, MD, FRCPC (Medical Editor)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrinology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower (ASHC) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to ACHS policy. The Annenberg Center is committed to providing its learners with high quality educational activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this activity:

Lubna Mirza, MD
No real or apparent conflicts of interest to report.

Tan Pham, MD
Fees for Non-CME/CE Services Received Directly from a Commercial Interest: Takeda; Janssen; Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Priya Manjoo, MD, FRCPC
Consulting Fees: Takeda; Actavis; Lilly; Merck; Novartis.

The planners and managers reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this patient education activity:

The following PIM and ACHS planners and managers, Laura Excell, ND, NP, MS, MA, LPC, NCC, Trace Hutchison, PharmD; Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CCMEP; Jan Schultz, RN, MSN, CCMEP; and Eric D. Peterson, EdM, FACEHP, CCMEP, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

Additional content planners: The following Prime Medic, Inc. planner and manager, Stephanie Searle, hereby states that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance their own personal development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should be discussed with your physician.

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• Javascript, "cookies" and "pop-ups" enabled. You can enable these features on a per-site basis in most browsers (The Animated Diabetes Patient website contains no advertising).
• Flash Player plug-in version 8 or higher – required for almost all content, including slide shows and animations.
• A PDF viewer (e.g., Adobe Reader).
• A sound card (or integrated sound) capable of playing multimedia sound through your computer, and speakers or headphones.