Title:  “State of the Art Diabetes Management:  Use of Early Insulin Therapy”
AAPA Release Date:  July 24, 2009
AAPA Expiration Date:  July 31, 2010
Presented by:  The American Academy of Physician Assistants
Funding: Supported through an educational grant from Novo-Nordisk
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  “State of the Art Diabetes Management: Use of Early Insulin Therapy”
Clinical Dialogue eCase Challenge

Clinical Dialogues are engaging, video-based roundtable discussions focusing on new guidelines, recent publications, and hot topics in patient management.  In tandem with the clinically-focused eCase Challenge, this educational activity creates a complete learning experience.

eCase Challenges are interactive, text-based case studies designed to integrate the educational objectives into day-to-day clinical practice.  The video "Clinical Pearl" summarizes key clinical aspects of this activity.
     
   
Faculty
Lawrence Herman, MPA, RPA-C, DFAAPA
Moderator
Physician Assistant
Senior Clinical Coordinator
Assistant Professor
Department of Physician Assistant Studies
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY
Director, Medical Education
Island Medical Physicians, PC
Hauppauge, NY
Mr. Herman is an Assistant Professor (with tenure) and Senior Clinical Coordinator in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at New York Institute of Technology, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine affiliation in Old Westbury.  He is also Vice President of Medical Education and Senior PA at Island Medical Physicians PC, in Hauppauge, New York, where he sees patients and is responsible for setting all of the practice guidelines for a large, multi-office family practice group.
He received a master of public administration in health administration and health system finance from Long Island University in Brookville, New York.  He was certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, with special distinction in both surgery and primary care and remains certified in primary care.
As a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Mr. Herman has served and chaired numerous AAPA committees as well as being a Past-President of the New York State Society of Physician Assistants.  He has contributed numerous book chapters to the literature and has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles.  He has participated in several clinical pharmaceutical trials and continues to be an invited speaker at international and national meetings.  He is the 2009 recipient of the New York Institute of Technology Annual Scholars Award for significant publication scholarship activities, the 2008 Standard of Excellence Award for providing the highest level of research and scholarship, and the 2007 and 2008 Educator of the Year award.
Charles Shaefer, Jr., MD, FACP, FCCP
Internal Medicine
Senior Partner
University Primary Care
Augusta, Georgia
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
Dr. Shaefer is a senior and founding partner of University Primary Care, an Internal Medicine and Diabetes practice focused on preventive care and advanced diabetes care.  He has a very busy active Internal Medicine practice focusing on all aspects of diabetes care.  In addition, Dr. Shaefer is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and serves as preceptor and mentor for medical students and residents.  
Dr. Shaefer received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He began medical school at the George Washington University School of Health Sciences and completed his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia.  He received his post-graduate medical training in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia.  He is currently board-certified in Internal Medicine and has received board certification in Critical Care Medicine also.  
Dr. Shaefer is a Fellow in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians.  He is a recognized national lecturer in the area of diabetes, particularly in the primary care setting.  He has addressed numerous CME conferences across the United States on the management of diabetes in the primary care setting.  For a number of years he has served on the editorial board of INSULIN journal and currently is the contributing editor to that journal, writing a routine commentary on diabetes care.  In addition, he has served as co-director of Taking Control Of Your Diabetes conferences and as a session chair at the 69th Annual Scientific Session of The American Diabetes Association in 2009.  He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and presented a variety of grand rounds presentations across the United States.  For the last decade he has been recognized as Best Doctors in Augusta and has consistently been named to Best Doctors in America for the last decade.
Christopher M. Eten, MPAS, RPA-C
Physician Assistant
Westhampton Primary Care Center
Westhampton Beach, NY
Mr. Eten completed his Physician Assistant studies at Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia in 2001.  Upon graduation, he was board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants in both Primary Care and Surgery and remains so in Primary Care.  He received his Masters Degree in 2006 from Alderson-Broaddus as well.
Since 2001, Mr. Eten has worked clinically in Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Neurosurgery.  He is currently practicing clinically at the Westhampton Primary Care center, a satellite facility of Southampton Hospital.  He is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants as well as the New York State Society of Physician Assistants.  Additionally, Mr. Eten has served on a panel to assist with the development of curriculum for the Johnson and Johnson Diabetes Institute in Milpitas, California.
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