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. 2022 Feb 14;16(2):504–515. doi: 10.1177/19322968211070354

2021 Diabetes Technology Meeting Agenda

PMCID: PMC8861799

DIABETES TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

WORKSHOP A: NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR GLUCOSE MONITORING

PANEL 1: BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING

8:00 Moderators:

Piotr Ladyzynski, PhD, DSc

Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

John Pickup, MA, BM, DPhil, DSc, FRCPath King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

8:05 Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring

Andreas Thomas, PhD

AGDT (Working group of Diabetes Technology), Germany, Ulm, Germany

8:20 Future of Blood Glucose Monitoring

Marcel Gmünder, JD

Roche Diagnostics International AG, Basel, Switzerland

8:35 Polypharmacy, Interfering Substances and Glucose Monitoring Devices

Elizabeth Holt, MD, FACE

LifeScan Global Corporation, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA

8:50 Innovative Glucose Sensing Principles - Optical Transmission Absorbance System and Open Circuit Potential-Based Sensing System

Koji Sode, PhD

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

9:05 Q&A / Panel Discussion

9:30 Break

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

PANEL 2: CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING

9:55 Moderators:

Thanh Hoang, DO, FACP, FACE

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Jennifer Sherr, MD, PhD

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

10:00 Traceability for BGM and CGM

Guido Freckmann, MD

Institute for Diabetes Technology GmbH, Ulm, Germany

10:15 Abbott Technology

Marc Taub, PhD

Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, California, USA

10:27 Dexcom Technology

Peter Simpson, MS

DexCom, Inc., San Diego, California, USA

10:39 WaveForm Technology

Mihailo Rebec, PhD

WaveForm Technologies, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA

10:51 Medtronic Technology

Robert Mucic, PhD

Medtronic Diabetes, Northridge, California, USA

11:03 Nemaura Technology

Faz Chowdhury, PhD

Nemaura Medical, Loughborough, UK

11:15 Ascensia Technology

Francine Kaufman, MD

Senseonics, Inc., Germantown, Maryland, USA

11:27 Q&A / Panel Discussion

11:40 Lunch

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

WORKSHOP B: CONNECTED HEALTH

PANEL 1: WHICH NOVEL SENSORS WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED FOR DIABETES?

12:40 Moderators:

Eda Cengiz, MD, MHS, FAAP

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Hazhir Teymourian, PhD

University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

12:45 Smart Pens

Søren Smed Østergaard, MS

Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark

13:00 Wireless Blood Pressure Monitoring

Dessi Zaharieva, PhD

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

13:15 Apps for Estimating Food Intake

Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, PhD

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

13:30 Foot Sensors

David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

13:45 Continuous Ketone Monitoring

Kristin Castorino, DO, BC-ADM

Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA

14:00 Q&A

14:20 Break

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021

PANEL 2: CAN DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER TELEHEALTH PROGRAMS MEET LOCAL NEEDS?

14:45 Moderators:

Andjela Drincic, MD, FACP

University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Barry Ginsberg, MD, PhD

Diabetes Technology Consultants, Arlington, Virginia, USA

14:50 Panel Discussion

Shailendra Bajpai, MBBS, MD

Becton Dickinson Greater Asia, Singapore

Ronald Dixon, MD

CareHive, Austin, Texas, USA

Leslie Eiland, MD

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Michelle Griffith, MD

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Gretchen Zimmerman, RD, CDCES

Vida Health, San Francisco, California, USA

16:05 Q&A

16:30 End of Workshop

8:00 Introduction

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

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, San Mateo, California, USA

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021

8:05 Keynote Presentation: Technology and the ADA

Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD

American Diabetes Association, Arlington, Virginia, USA

SESSION 1: BEST METRICS FOR GLYCEMIA USING CGM

8:30 Moderators:

Will Cefalu, MD

NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Claudio Cobelli, PhD

University of Padova, Padova, Italy

8:35 Clinical Importance of Glycemic Variability

David Rodbard, MD

Biomedical Informatics Consultants LLC, Potomac, Maryland, USA

8:45 Time in Range is Predictive of Diabetic Vascular Complications

Roy Beck, MD, PhD

Jaeb Center for Health Research, Tampa, Florida, USA

8:55 The New Composite Dysglycemia Index for Assessing CGMs

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

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, San Mateo, California, USA

9:05 Using Time in Range to Optimize and Personalize Diabetes Management

Richard Bergenstal, MD

International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

9:15 Q&A / Panel Discussion

9:40 End of Session

SESSION 2: SOFTWARE FOR DIABETES

9:40 Moderators:

David Ahn, MD

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

Moderators:

Guillermo Umpierrez, MD

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Presentation of Diabetes Technology Leadership Award

Presentation of Artificial Pancreas Award

9:45 Insulin Dosing Software

Moshe Phillip, MD

National Center for Childhood Diabetes

Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel

10:00 Hurdles to Bringing Digital Health Technologies to the Market

Chris Boulton, BSc

Sanofi, Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA

10:15 Getting the Most Out of the EHR

Juan Espinoza, MD

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USC, Los Angeles, California, USA

10:30 Q&A / Panel Discussions

10:50 Break

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021

SESSION 3: REGULATION OF DIABETES TECHNOLOGY

11:15 Moderators:

Alexander Fleming, MD

Kinexum, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA

Alberto Gutierrez, PhD

NDA Partners, LLC, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

11:20 Diabetes Hardware and Software

Naomi Schwartz, MS

FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

11:35 Medical Device Cybersecurity

Kevin Fu, PhD

FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

11:50 Privacy of Diabetes Devices

Alice Leiter, JD

EHealth Initiative, Washington DC, USA

12:05 Q&A / Panel Discussion

12:25 Lunch

SESSION 4: DIABETES DATA SCIENCE

13:25 Moderators:

Guillermo Arreaza-Rubin, MD

NIDDK/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Riccardo Bellazzi, PhD

University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

13:30 Diabetes Data Science

Boris Kovatchev, PhD

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

13:45 Artificial Intelligence for Diabetes

Martina Vettoretti, PhD

University of Padova, Padova, Italy

14:00 Machine Learning for Diabetes

Josep Vehi, PhD

University of Girona, Girona, Spain

14:15 Q&A / Panel Discussion

14:30 End of Session

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021

SESSION 5: ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES

14:30 Moderators:

Wayne Bequette, PhD

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Peter Jacobs, PhD

Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

14:35 Use of an Artificial Pancreas during Stress Disturbances

Frank Doyle, PhD, CPGS

Dean, Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

14:47 Using an Online Disturbance Rejection and Anticipation System to Reduce Hyperglycemia in a Fully Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas System

Marc Breton, PhD

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

14:59 Incorporating Prior Information in Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Multivariable Artificial Pancreas Systems

Ali Cinar, PhD

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

15:11 Q&A / Panel Discussion

15:30 End of Session

SESSION 6A: PATIENT PANEL

15:55 Moderators:

Bruce Buckingham, MD

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

Laura Pickett, MD

International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

16:00 Patient Panel (Tandem, Medtronic, Insulet, Diabeloop)

16:20 End of Panel

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021

SESSION 6B: ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS: COMPARISON OF PRODUCTS

16:20 Moderators:

Ananda Basu, MBBS, MD, FRCP (UK)

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Jeffrey Joseph, DO

Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

16:25 Features of Insulet Omnipod 5

Sue Brown, MD

University of Virginia Health, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

16:35 Features of Medtronic FLAIR

Elvira Isganaitis, MD, MPH

Joslin Diabetes Center Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

16:45 Features of Tandem Control-IQ

Paul Wadwa, MD

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA

16:55 Features of Beta Bionics iLet Bionic Pancreas

Steven Russell, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

17:05 Features of CamAPS FX

Roman Hovorka, PhD, FMedSci

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

17:15 Q&A / Panel Discussion

17:35 End of Session

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2021

SESSION 7: NOVEL INSULINS

8:00 Moderators:

Gerold Grodsky, PhD

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

Elias Spanakis, MD

University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Presentation of Student Research Awards

8:05 Student Speaker

Rahul Narayan, MS

Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

8:15 New Insulins

Tim Heise, MD

Profil, Neuss, Germany

8:25 Smart Glucose-Responsive Insulins

Michael Weiss, MD, PhD, MBA

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

8:35 Update on New Glucagon Products

Anne Peters, MD

Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California, USA

8:45 Heat Stability of Various Insulin Types

Leonardo Scapozza, PhD

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

8:55 Q&A / Panel Discussion

9:10 End of Session

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2021

SESSION 8: INSULIN DELIVERY

9:10 Moderators

Umesh Masharani, MD

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Anant Nigam, MD, FRCP

Nigam Diabetes Centre, Jaipur, India

9:15 Novel Needles

Teresa Oliveria, PharmD

BD, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA

9:30 Novel Insulin Delivery Systems

Jeffrey Joseph, DO

Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

9:45 Novel Infusion Sets

Robert Vigersky, MD

Medtronic Diabetes, Northridge, California, USA

10:00 Forget Diabetes: A Novel Automated Insulin Delivery System

Andreas Pfützner, MD, PhD

Pfützner Science and Health Institute, Mainz, Germany

10:15 Smartwatch- and Smartphone-Mediated Cell-Based Diabetes Control

Maysam Mansouri, PhD

ETH Zürich, D- BSSE, Basel, Switzerland

10:30 Q&A / Panel Discussion

10:55 Break

SESSION 9: SKIN TRAUMA DUE TO DIABETES DEVICES

11:20 Moderators:

Halis Akturk, MD

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Mohammed Al-Sofiani, MBBS, MSc

King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

11:25 Bruising

Lutz Heinemann, PhD

Science Consulting in Diabetes GmbH, Kaarst, Germany

11:40 Allergic Reactions to Adhesives

Jannet Svensson, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

11:55 Preserving Skin Integrity with Wearable Diabetes Devices

Cari Berget, RN, MPH, CDCES

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, Aurora, Colorado, USA

12:10 Advances in Adhesives

Naunihal Virdi, MD

Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, California, USA

12:25 Q&A / Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2021

SESSION 10: METABESITY: PREVENTING METABOLIC DETERIORATION AND CHRONIC DISEASE

13:35 Moderators:

Brian Frier, BSc (Hons), MD, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glas)

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

John Melish, MD

University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

13:40 Overview of Metabesity

Alexander Fleming, MD

Kinexum Services LLC, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA

13:55 Repurposing Diabetes Sensors for Other Metabolic Diseases

Mark Clements, MD, PhD, CPI, FAAP

Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

14:10 Use of CGM for Identifying Glucotypes

Michael Snyder, PhD

Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

14:25 Q&A Panel Discussion

14:40 Break

SESSION 11: HOT TOPICS

15:05 Moderators:

Sarah Kim, MD

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

Kayo Waki, MD, PhD, MPH

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

15:10 Precision Diabetes

Louis Philipson, MD, PhD

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

15:20 CGM in Type 2 Not on Insulin

Eugene Wright, MD

Charlotte Area Health Education Center, Charlotte, NC

15:30 Diversity in Diabetes Technology

Katharine Barnard-Kelly, PhD

BHR Ltd, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK

15:40 Using Diabetes Technology in Pregnancy

Lynn Yee, MD, MPH

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

15:50 Green Diabetes

Lutz Heinemann, PhD

Science Consulting in Diabetes GmbH, Neuss, Germany

16:00 Q&A / Panel Discussion

16:15 End of Session

DTM 2021

21ST ANNUAL DIABETES TECHNOLOGY MEETING AGENDA

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2021

LIVE DEMONSTRATION

16:15 Moderators:

Gu Eon Kang, PhD

University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

Dorian Liepmann, PhD

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

16:20 A Mobile App for Foot Selfies to Monitor Diabetic Foot Wounds

Mark Swerdlow, MS

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

16:40 Closing Statements

16:45 End


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