Videos

Dr. Tamara Hannon explains how her type 2 patients make the transition to adult-care physicians. Because type 2 is far more common in adults, endocrinologists and physicians who treat adults are actually more used to treating the disease than pediatricians who rarely see type 2 patients. 

Dr. Tamara Hannon addresses Steve’s questions on the future of type 2 diabetes in children, noting that unless we can begin to make changes as a society, the rates will just keep increasing as the obesity rates just keep going up.

Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, and Pam Arnold, MSN, talk about how the MUSC program was integrated into the existing electronic records system and that further progress is being made on this front so that physicians and other healthcare providers will have access to their patients’ data…..

Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, and Pam Arnold, MSN, talk about the change in the rate of hypoglycemia now seen in the MUSC system, which has decreased from around 10% to 2%. They emphasize, however, that the work is far from over, and that there is further opportunity for improvement, especially …

Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, and Pam Arnold, MSN, explain that, in the MUSC program to control hypoglycemia, they did not see increases in incidence of hyperglycemia. Instead, they did train staff to more gradually raise low blood sugars,  also changing some of the existing protocols slightly in order not to …

Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, and Pam Arnold, MSN, discuss the various reasons for hypoglycemia and how they had to encourage staff to change some of their ways of thinking including training they had received previously….

 Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, and Pam Arnold, MSN, talk about the Medical University of South Carolina’s program working toward lowering rates of hypoglycemia in a hospital setting and the importance of this goal. Because controlling hypoglycemia is so dangerous, one of the first things they aimed for was to lower …

Kathie L. Hermayer, MD, MS, and Pam Arnold, MSN, PNP, APRN, BC-ADM, CDE, give us a brief introduction to themselves, explaining how they work together and what they do at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Hospital Diabetes Task Force Program.

Dr. Philipp Scherer discusses the role of adipose tissue, and how fat can expand at either a healthy or unhealthy rate. If it expands and is not properly vascularized, this can cause insulin resistance….

Dr. Philipp Scherer talks about “healthy obesity” and how some people are “really adept at expanding healthy fat tissue.” He explains that healthy fat tissue is a very effective “sink” for excess calories and that if there is enough vascularization, this spares other tissues such as the liver, muscles or beta …