2025 Rhode Island World Diabetes Day Event

Join healthcare professionals and colleagues from across the state for a FREE in-person morning full of helpful, informative, eye-opening, and inspirational presentations, discussions, and question-and-answer sessions. Attendees will be eligible for CME/CE credits for participating. Light refreshments will be available.

For more information, visit: www.riwdd.org

Event schedule:

7:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. - Exhibit Hall

8:00 a.m. – 8:10 a.m. - Rhode Island World Diabetes Day 2025 Welcome and Opening Remarks 

8:10 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. - Keynote Speaker: Kris Freeman, Patient Ambassador (sponsored by Novo Nordisk)

8:50 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. - It Costs How Much?! Navigating Financial Wellness and Affordable Medic*tion Access in Uninsured and Underinsured Patients, Alisha Crowley, MD & Madeleine Greene, Brown Medicine

9:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. - Step Ahead: Early Detection, Education and Multidisciplinary Care for Diabetic Foot Health, Lisa Gould, MD, PhD, & Mary Elizabeth Brady, Wound Healing Society, American College of Surgeons, VNA of Care New England

10:10 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. - Break and Exhibit Hall 

10:25 a.m. –11:05 a.m. - Gestational Diabetes in the AI Era: From Predicting Pregnancy Complications to Lifelong Health Insight, Alexis Gimovsky, MD & Martha Kole-White, MD, CPPS, Women & Infants Hospital of RI

11:05 a.m. –11:45 a.m.- Enhancing Age-Friendly Diabetes Management through the 4Ms Framework, Karen D’Antonio, BS, RN, CDOE, Healthcentric Advisors

11:45 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. - Grace Diaz Blue Light Award Presentation 

11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks

Host or Publisher Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH)