AACE 2017

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dr. Robert Rapaport discusses his work with pediatric diabetes patients and the challenges as children with diabetes outgrow pediatrics and transition to adult care.

In this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about his work with pediatric patients with diabetes and transitioning them to adult care.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the necessity of a proper, eventual transition of pediatric patients to adult care.

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the complexities of managing diabetes, including in pediatric patients.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the use and concern about the CGM in managing pediatric diabetes.

In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the use of the latest diabetes technology in his practice.

In part 5, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Robert Rapaport talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about what he wants healthcare practitioners to understand about transitioning pediatric patients and his goals for his patients' A1C.

In part 8, the conclusion of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Aaron Vinik talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about the reward of his work and making time for patients.

Richard E. Pratley, MD serves as the Medical Director of the Florida Hospital Diabetes Institute. He is also a senior scientist at the Florida Hospital /Sanford- Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes and a professor at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona.

In this Exclusive Interview transcript, Dr. Richard Pratley talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE meeting about the treatment of obesity in people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, as well as the need for more aggressive prediabetes treatment.