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Cecilia Sauter gives us a brief introduction to her work and an overview of her presentation at the 2012 AADE. She discusses the important of training diabetes educators to listen and how crucial it is to ask the right questions and engage with patients. More videos with Cecilia Sauter: Training ...

Cecilia Sauter talks about how she teaches diabetes professionals to work very hard at listening to the patients. She points out that most diabetes professionals are very motivated to help their patients and have many tools which they want to share but they need to remember first to listen to ...

Cecilia Sauter, MS, RD, CDE, discusses some of the ways she motivates her patients to change their dietary habits. She always starts her conversations by asking them what they are interested in changing. Then she makes suggestions involving taking very small steps and just changing a few things at a ...

Cecilia Sauter, MS, RD, CDE, gives us some terrific examples how very small steps that patients can take to improve their physical activity levels. However, she first points out that it is vital to listen to patients to determine if they are willing to increase their activity. If so, she recommends doing ...

Cecilia Sauter answers Steve Freed’s case study question regarding approaching patients who have specific ethnic high-carb foods — such as rice — which they are attached to.  She emphasizes that she always presents the patients with various different options including medication and portion control, allowing them to choose their own ...

Patricia Kringas gives us a quick overview of her background and her current work with the TODAY trial. More videos with Patricia Kringas: Results of the TODAY Study on Type 2 Adolescents What Can We Learn from the TODAY study on Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes? How Were Family Members ...

Patricia Kringas reviews the structure of the TODAY trial and talks about some of the surprising results. More videos with Patricia Kringas: Patricia Kringas, RN, MA, CDE, Introduction What Can We Learn from the TODAY study on Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes? How Were Family Members Involved in the TODAY ...

Patricia Kringas discusses the unexpected results of the TODAY study, focusing on how the time-to-failure with metformin for adolescents was shorter than with adults in the same type of program. She emphasizes that although lifestyle changes are critical to health and well-being, other factors seem to be at play when studying adolescents, ...

Patricia Kringas, RN, CDE, describes how the TODAY study was designed to ensure that family members were also involved with the study in an in-depth and integrated manner. All educational materials were available in both English and Spanish, and family members also participated fully in the study. Although lack of ...

Patricia Kringas emphasizes the necessity of shifting the dialogue for adolescents to a more aggressive and proactive approach but also lets us know that education still plays an extremely important role. Here’s the link to the free educational materials she mentions from the TODAY study (available in both English and ...