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. 2019 Mar 1;13(2):282–292. doi: 10.1177/1932296819833861

2018 Diabetes Technology Meeting Agenda

PMCID: PMC6399798

DIABETES TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY

DTM 2O18

18th annual diabetes technology meeting Agenda

Thursday, November 8, 2018

07:00 Continental Breakfast

Workshop A: Adherence to Treatment

Panel 1: Technology for Determining Adherence

 08:00 Moderators

  Koji Sode, PhD

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

  Bithika Thompson, MD

  Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

 08:05 Developing a Technology Enabled Model to Support Medication Taking Behaviors

  Deborah Greenwood, PhD, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, SAADE

  Deborah Greenwood Consulting, Sacramento, California

 08:20 Hardware - Smart Pens

  Jane Seley, DNP, MPH, MSN, GNP, BC-ADM, CDE, CDTC, FAAN

  New York Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York

 08:35 Advances in BGM Logbooks and Apps

  David Ahn, MD

  Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center at Hoag, Newport Beach, California

 08:50 A New User Experience for Determining Insulin Pump Adherence Kimberly Driscoll, PhD

  University of Colorado Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Aurora, Colorado

 09:05 Q & A

 09:35 Break

Panel 2: Technology for Increasing Adherence

 09:55 Moderators

  Gabriel Bitton, PhD

  Insuline Medical, Petah Tikva, Israel

  Sammy Choi, MD

  Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina

 10:00 Software Reminder Apps

  Mark Clements, MD, PhD

  Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri

 10:15 The Need for Increased Adherence to Diabetes Therapy

  Nisha Subramanian, MBA

  McKinsey & Company, Summit, New Jersey

 10:30 Connected Insulin Pens

  Jennal Johnson, FNP, MS

  Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana

 10:45 Innovative Strategies to Improve Adherence to Diabetes Treatment

  Eda Cengiz, MD

  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

 11:00 Q & A

 11:30 End of workshop/Lunch

 07:00 Continental Breakfast

Workshop B: Diabetes Technology in the Hospital

Panel 1: New Uses for Established Hardware

 08:00 Moderators

  Nestoras Mathioudakis, MD

  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

  Garry Steil, PhD

  Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

 08:05 Regulation of Hospital BGM Accuracy

  Leslie Landree, PhD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

 08:20 Accuracy of BG Testing in the Hospital

  William Clarke, PhD, MBA, DABCC

  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 08:35 Capillary POC BG Testing in the ICU

  Mark Rice, MD

  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

 08:50 Insulin Pumps in the Hospital

  Curtiss B. Cook, MD

  Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona

 09:05 Q & A

 09:35 Break

Panel 2: Novel Technologies

 09:55 Moderators

  Geoff Chase, PhD

  University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Greg Garcia, BS

  Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, Washington, DC

 10:00 CGM in the Hospital

  Elias Spanakis, MD

  University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

 10:15 Artificial Pancreas in the Hospital

  Roman Hovorka, PhD

  University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 10:30 Threat Modeling in Medical Devices and Networks

  Michael Taborn, BSEE

  Intel Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona

 10:45 Maintaining Privacy of Diabetes Data in the Hospital

  Tim West, BS

  GuidePoint Security, St. Louis, Missouri

 11:00 Q & A

 11:30 End of workshop/Lunch

Workshop C: The Future of Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose (SMBG)

Panel 1: Maximizing Technology

 12:30 Moderators

  Heather C. Kuiper, PhD

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

  Rosemary Oshinsky, MSN, RN, CDE

  Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC

 12:35 Extracting Maximum Value from SMBG

  Timothy S. Bailey, MD, FACE

  AMCR Institute, Escondido, California

 12:50 Point of Care Blood Glucose Testing in the Hospital

  Deanna Bogner, MT (ASCP)

  Baptist Health System, San Antonio, Texas

 13:05 The Relationship Between A1Cand Blood Glucose Values

  Robert Cohen, MD

  University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

 13:20 Safe Disposal of Needles and Blood Waste

  Ed Krisiunas, MPH

  WNWN International, Burlington, Connecticut

 13:35 Q & A

 14:05 Break

Panel 2: Emerging Trends

 14:25 Moderators

  Robert Burk, MD

  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

  Kong Chen, PhD MSCI

  NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 14:30 New Technologies to Detect and Eliminate Interferences

  Corinne Fantz, PhD, DABCC, FACB

  Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Indiana

 14:45 Digitalization and Analytics in Diabetes

  Martin Lange, MBA

  Ascensia, Basel, Switzerland

 15:00 Encouraging Adherence

  Susana Patton, PhD, CDE

  University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas

 15:15 Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring

  Ishan Barman, PhD

  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

 15:30 Q & A

 16:05 End of workshop

 16:15–18:30 Poster Session Night One, Startup Showcase, and Inauguration of the 18th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting

 18:30–20:00 Posters remain on display for viewing

Workshop D: Novel Hardware

Panel 1: Implanted Sensors

 12:30 Moderators

  Alexander Fleming, MD

  Kinexum, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

  Jisun Yi, MD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

 12:35 Barriers to Implanted Optical Glucose Sensors

  Mark Arnold, PhD

  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

 12:47 A Long-Term Implanted Sensor; Sustaining the Benefits of CGM

  William Markle, MBA

  GlySens, San Diego, California

 12:59 Fully Implantable Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas

  Chris Hanson, MS

  Theranova, San Francisco, California

 13:11 Recent Advances with a Needle-Implantable CGM Platform

  Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, PhD

  University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

 13:23 An Implanted Osmotic Sensor

  Andreas Pfützner, MD, PhD

  Lifecare AS, Bergen, Norway

 13:35 Q & A

 14:05 Break

Panel 2: Insulin Pumps

 14:25 Moderator

  Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD

  Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts

 14:30 Debate: Optimal Glycemic Control in Type I Diabetes: Insulin Pumps vs. MDI

  Roy Beck, MD, PhD

  Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, Florida

  John Pickup, MD, PhD

  King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

 15:10 A Novel Digital Tubeless Patch Pump Diabetes Management System

  Aiman Abdel-Malek, PhD

  Insulet Corporation, San Diego, California

 15:25 A Novel Patch Pump

  Ian Welsford, PhD

  EOFlow, San Jose, California

 15:40 Navigating a Sticky Situation: Overcoming Skin Reactions to Adhesives for Insulin Pumps

  Del Lawson, PhD

  3M Medical Materials & Technologies, Maplewood, Minnesota

 15:55 Q & A

 16:05 End of workshop

 16:15–18:30 Poster Session Night One, Startup Showcase, and Inauguration of the 18th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting

 18:30–20:00 Posters remain on display for viewing

 07:00 Continental Breakfast

Session 1: Healthcare Information Technology

 08:00 Welcome/Opening Remarks

  David Klonoff, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Fellow AIMBE

  Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, San Mateo, California

  University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

 08:05 Keynote: Changing Times at the FDA

  Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

 08:30 Moderators

  Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD

  NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

  Dorian Liepmann, PhD

  University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

 08:30 Artificial Intelligence

  Tom Lawry, BS

  Microsoft, Redmond, Washington

 08:50 Blockchain in Healthcare: The Case for Pragmatic Innovation

  Ron Ribitzky, MD

  R&D Ribitzky, Newtown, Massachusetts

Session 2: CGM-Based Outcome Metrics

 9:10 Moderators

  Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin, MD

  NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

  David Klonoff, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), Fellow AIMBE

  Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, San Mateo, California

  University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

 9:10 Panel Discussion

  Why Estimating A1C from Mean Glucose Data Can Be Both Misleading and Important

  Richard Bergenstal, MD

  International Diabetes Center, St. Louis Park, Minnesota

  Metrics of Average Glycemia and Glucose Variability

  Boris Kovatchev, PhD

  UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, Charlottesville, Virginia

  Validation of Glucose Metrics as Outcome Measures for Clinical Trials

  Roy Beck, MD, PhD

  Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, Florida

  How FDA Looks at New Endpoints and in Particular at New Endpoints to Replace or Supplement A1C

  Courtney Lias, PhD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

  Selecting Outcome Measures for Clinical Trials

  David Maahs, MD, PhD

  Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

 10:50 End of session/Break

Session 3: Regulation of Diabetes Technology

 11:15 Moderators

  Alberto Gutierrez, PhD

  NDA Partners LLC, Bethesda, Maryland

  Dominique Shelton Leipzig, JD

  Perkins Coie, Los Angeles, California

 11:15 CGM-Based Decision Support for MDI Patients

  Marc Breton, PhD

  UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, Charlottesville, Virginia

 11:30 Insulin Dose Calculators and Diabetes Apps

  Naomi Schwartz, BS

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

 11:40 Interoperable Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems

  Alain Silk, PhD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

 11:50 The FDA Pre-Certification Program for Software as a Medical Device

  Bradley Merrill Thompson, JD

  Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., Washington, DC

 12:05 Panel Discussion

 12:20 End of session/Lunch

Session 4: Artificial Pancreas in Type 1

 13:20 Moderators

  Jeffrey Joseph, DO

  Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Moshe Phillip, MD

  Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

 13:20 Artificial Pancreas Award

 13:25 The NIH Vision

  Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin, MD

  NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 13:37 The JDRF Vision

  Daniel Finan, PhD

  JDRF, New York, New York

 13:49 The International Diabetes Closed Loop Trial

  Stacey Anderson, MD

  UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, Charlottesville, Virginia

 14:01 Prevention of Post-Bariatric Hypoglycemia: Design and Clinical Evaluation of a Smart Rescue System

  Eyal Dassau, PhD

  Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 14:13 Stretching Break

 14:18 A Tubeless Hybrid Closed Loop System

  Trang Ly, MBBS, FRACP, PhD

  Insulet Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts

 14:30 Artificial Pancreas in Children

  Eric Renard, MD, PhD

  Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France

 14:42 Q & A

 15:05 End of session/Break

Session 5: CEO Discussion: Artificial Pancreas in Type 2

 15:30 Moderator

  David Kerr, MD, FRCPE

  Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California

 15:30 Is There a Market for the Artificial Pancreas in Type 2 Diabetes Patients?

  Jeffrey Brewer, BA

  CEO, Bigfoot Biomedical, Milpitas, California

  Marcel Gmuender, JD

  Global Head of Roche Diabetes Care, Basel, Switzerland

  Hooman Hakami, BBA

  Executive Vice President and Group President, Medtronic Diabetes, Northridge, California

  Patrick Sullivan, MBA

  President and CEO, Insulet Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts

 16:30–18:30 Poster Session Night Two and Startup Showcase

 18:30–20:00 Posters remain on display for viewing

 07:00 Continental Breakfast

Session 6: Novel Insulins

 8:00 Moderators

  Gerald Grodsky, PhD

  University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

  John Nolan, MD

  European Diabetes Forum, Dublin, Ireland

 8:05 Recap of First Day and Presentation of Student Award

 8:10 Gold Prize Student Presentation

  Activity Detection and Activity Level Categorization in Free-Living Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes

  Divya Choudhary

  Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 08:25 Is Ultra Rapid-Acting Insulin Needed?

  Bruce Bode, MD, FACE

  Atlanta Diabetes Associates, Atlanta, Georgia

 08:45 Inhaled and Oral Insulins

  Lutz Heinemann, PhD

  Science & Co., Düsseldorf, Germany

 09:05 New Drugs in the Pipeline

  Eric Zijlstra, PhD

  Profil, Neuss, Germany

 09:25 Light-Induced Insulin Therapy

  Simon H. Friedman, PhD

  University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri

 09:45 Q&A

 10:05 Break

Session 7: Digital Diabetes Data Science

 10:30 Moderators

  Jorge Bondia, PhD

  Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  Andrea Facchinetti, PhD

  University of Padova, Padova, Italy

 10:30 Diabetes Data Science – Linking Electronic Health Records and Real-Time Monitoring

  Boris Kovatchev, PhD

  UVA Center for Diabetes Technology, Charlottesville, Virginia

 10:50 A Clinician’s Perspective on Diabetes Data Science

  Moshe Phillip, MD

  Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel

 11:10 NIH Initiatives in Diabetes Data Science

  Andrew Bremer, MD, PhD

  NIDDK/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 11:30 The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal

  Noel Burtt, BS

  Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 11:50 Q & A

 12:10 End of session/Lunch

Session 8: Hot Topics in Diabetes Technology

 13:10 Moderators

  Andreas Pfützner, MD, PhD

  Lifecare AS, Bergen, Norway

  Victor Schneider, MD

  NASA, Washington, DC

 13:15 Therapy

  Matthias Hebrok, PhD

  University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

 13:35 Relationship Between Hypoglycemia and Cardiac Arrhythmias

  Simon Heller, MD

  The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

 13:55 Q & A

Session 9: Infusion Sets

 14:05 Moderators

  Andrea Bell-Vlasov, PhD

  FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland

  Ulrike Klueh, PhD

  Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

 14:05 The Achilles Heel of Insulin Infusion

  Lutz Heinemann, PhD

  Science & Co., Düsseldorf, Germany

 14:20 Robust, Reliable Infusion Technology for Automated Delivery Systems

  Matthias Heschel, PhD

  Convatec, Copenhagen, Denmark

 14:30 Development of an Advanced Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) Catheter with Extended Duration of Use and More Reliable Insulin Delivery

  Jeffrey Joseph, DO

  Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 14:40 Novel Technology for Insulin Infusion

  Bob Cargill, PhD

  Pacific Diabetes Technology, Portland, Oregon

 14:50 Intraperitoneal Insulin Infusion

  Eric Renard, MD, PhD

  Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France

 15:05 Q & A

 15:15 Break

Session 10: Technology to Improve Accuracy of Needle Sensor CGMs

 15:40 Moderators

  Jesper Fleischer, PhD

  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  John Pickup, MD, PhD

  King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

 15:40 Performance of a Next Generation CGM System

  Marc Taub, PhD

  Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, California

 15:52 CGM Accuracy and Next Generation Devices

  Peter Simpson, PhD

  Dexcom, San Diego, California

 16:04 Leveraging Real-Time Diagnostics to Improve Sensor Accuracy and Minimize User Burden

  Andrea Varsavsky, PhD

  Medtronic Diabetes, Los Angeles, California

 16:16 A New Needle Sensor

  Mihailo Rebec, PhD

  WaveForm Technologies, Wilsonville, Oregon

 16:28 Q & A

Session 11: Live Demonstration

 16:40 Moderator

  John Pickup, MD, PhD

  King’s College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

 16:40 An Automated AI Detection System for Diabetic Retinopathy

  Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD

  IDx-DR

  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

 17:00 Adjourn


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