Considerations for Patients with Eating Disorders and Diabetes

Diabetes is a medical condition fraught with risk for development of disordered eating behaviors. When present, these behaviors may worsen or accelerate the medical complications of diabetes. However, these behaviors may be hard to detect and may be present in many different clinical scenarios. Providers treating patients with eating disorders must understand the medical complications for patients using restrictive, selective purging or binge eating behaviors with a co-morbid diagnosis of diabetes. In this talk, we will discuss insulin-dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes and how these...Read more are impacted by co-morbid eating disorders including bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID.

Accanto Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program provides 1.0 continuing education credits.

Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

This activity has been submitted for approval as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Learning Objectives

  • Identify unique medical complications that may be seen in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes and purging through insulin misuse.
  • Explain the association between binge eating and insulin resistance and possible medical complications.
  • Describe how to approach the evaluation and management of selectivity in patients with diabetes.

Learning Levels

  • Beginning level course

Thursday, July 14, 2022

The Smith Room at Oxford Exchange
420 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33606

01:00 PM EDT - 02:30 PM EDT

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About the speaker

Anna B. Tanner, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, CEDS-S

Anna B. Tanner, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, CEDS-S

Vice President of Child and Adolescent Medicine, Accanto Health
Dr. Anna B. Tanner is Vice President of Child and Adolescent Medicine for Accanto Health. She is a board-certified Pediatrician who has specialized in the care of complicated adolescent patients, in particular patients with eating disorders, for over 20 years. Dr. Tanner completed medical school and residency at Vanderbilt University, and then remained there to serve on the Pediatrics faculty in the Division of Young Adult and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Tanner has been very involved in advocacy and education efforts and serves on national and international committees for eating disorders education. She speaks frequently across the United States on the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders, especially as they affect children and young adolescents, and contributed a book chapter on that topic in the 4th edition of Dr. Philip S. Mehler’s Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Care and Complications. Dr. Tanner currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. She currently serves as co-chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED) Medical Care Standards Committee. Dr. Tanner is a Fellow in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and a Certified Eating Disorders Supervisor. She has been named by Atlanta magazine as a “Top Doctor” every year from 2013 to 2023 and named by Castle Connelly as an Exceptional Woman in Medicine and one of America’s Most Honored Doctors.

CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour

CE Approvals

Commission on Dietetic Registration
This activity has been approved as a continuing professional education activity by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
American Psychological Association
Accanto Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Accanto Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Accanto Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no.7166. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. Accanto Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

CE Process Info

A continuing education certificate for the event will be obtained using the website, CE-Go. After the event, you will receive an email containing a link to CE-Go.   (This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event).

Upon accessing the CE-Go website, you will be able to:

• Complete evaluation forms for the event 

• Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go process, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com
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