Diabetes Center for Children at CHOP

Happy Monday!

Some of our CHOP staff are returning from attending the Children with Diabetes 2024 Friends for Life conference in Orlando this past week! It was a fantastic week, with so many wonderful opportunities, sessions and FUN for children and adults with diabetes and their families! 🧡💚🦖

Pictured here are some of the current (and former!) CHOP staff who attended/volunteered at the conference, in various roles!

Interested in attending a future Children with Diabetes conference? Be sure to follow their social media for more information on future events!

Happy Friday! Today’s find is the amazing inpatient diabetes team, including our new residents and fellows, decked out in Eagles 🏈, Sixers 🏀, and Phillies ⚾️jerseys! GO TEAM🙌 Enjoy your weekend!

Check out the latest updates from the American Diabetes Association’s 2024 Scientific Sessions in Orlando this past month. The conference assembled the top experts in diabetes care and research, revealing groundbreaking discoveries and innovations.

This summary digs into the key highlights, offering valuable insights for people in the diabetes community.

2024 ADA Scientific Sessions: Key Research Highlights Get the latest updates from the ADA Scientific Sessions 2024. Discover key research highlights and news in diabetes care and innovation.

A gigantic diabetes 💙 welcome to our new Endocrine Fellows that started this week. Part of their boot camp included a presentation on handling diabetes emergencies including phone ketone management!! Hopefully you won’t need to call in, but if you do, say hi to our new crew!

Our DCC sports dietitian, Megan Robinson, spent a week at the Jersey shore coaching and providing sports nutrition and diabetes education at the Diabetes Training Camp! 💙 🏖️ 🏃

She had a blast coaching running on the board walk, taking surfing 🏄 and yoga 🧘 lessons on the 🏖️ , and providing nutrition tips to the athletes on how to best manage their diabetes while exercising.

Next up the Teen Boot Camp in Lancaster next month! If you or your teen are interested in learning more about these sports camps, please reach out to Megan via MyCHOP!

We hope you don’t need Urgent Care on July 4th, but just in case you know someone who does—check out the hours and locations here ⬇️
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This week, CHOP welcomed the new 2024 pediatric residents! This photo of the inpatient team includes some of our brand new residents as well as those who are precepting them as well as our endocrine fellow and awesome clinical nurse specialist, Susan Dumser, who helps to coordinate this team! They each wore sportswear from one of their alma maters for the photo this week! Welcome new CHOP pediatric residents! We hope you love endocrinology!!

BIG NEWS we’ve been waiting for!
Omnipod 5 can now be integrated with Dexcom G7.

At this time, the G7 is ONLY available to patients who are NEW to using Omnipod (there are some other parts to the rollout). For existing Omnipod patients, there will be a free software update from Insulet - the company that makes Omnipod - at the end of July. After the update, you will be able to get the pods that are compatible with G6/G7. You can get these pods using the same prescription that you currently have for your O5 pods. After you receive these pods, please reach out to your diabetes provider for a G7 prescription.

Please note: 🍎🍎🍎 if you are hoping to use your apple phone as the controller of your Omnipod system (another exciting update being released soon), you will need to continue and use G6 sensors/transmitter.

Who saw Inside Out 2?!
Another background character with diabetes! Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios for including diabetes in typical kid life! 💙💙

Happy Monday! 💙💙
The Diabetes Center team is recovering from ADA Camp Freedom 🏕️ and catching up from another crazy adventure filled week!
Our med staff group included our own diabetes team members, some “old” team members who work elsewhere now, clinical reps from the companies whose equipment we use and a few other nurses and dietitians. We had a nurse extern—a former patient about to graduate— and a few dietetic interns (one was a former patient!).

Our counselors were amazing this year and included many of our “older” patients and others looking to learn more about diabetes. The head counselor team was made up of all former patients who took off from their jobs for the week.

Of course, all of that staff was there for your amazing kids! Thank you for sharing them with us and for working so hard to make camp happen for your kids. Their smiles and cheers and the hysterical stuff they said kept us all laughing all week while we worked hard on diabetes management behind the scenes while the kids played! Pool time for hours in the hot sun!! ☀️ 💦

sending off an absolutely MAGICAL group of residents on the inpatient diabetes team with a Disney Theme! this great group worked hard to learn all about diabetes, and we appreciate them!

Happy Tuesday!

Jack & Aedan are great friends and they met at Camp Freedom when they were little guys! Now they both play club lacrosse 🥍 for HHH. They took a quick break from Camp Freedom this weekend to WIN a lacrosse tournament!! They’re back now having all the fun as CITs at camp back where their friendship started!

Saying a big HELLO from American Diabetes Association - Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware Camp Freedom - the CHOP Diabetes Center staff (and some other fabulous volunteers) are the med staff, taking care of over 100 kids at diabetes camp this week! 🏕️☀️

It's another fun Friday pic from the inpatient diabetes team! Today they are showing off their colors to support 🌈Enjoy your Friday and weekend ahead😀

Happy Friday! Today's find is the "Annual Keeping Kids with Diabetes Safe in School and Community Settings Conference".

The conference is held October 5th, 2024 for school nurses and non-health care professionals. This in-person, one day conference at the CHOP serves to provide knowledge and skills essential to caring children with diabetes. Topics include management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, introduction to insulin pumps and continuous glucose sensors, and the emotional impact of diabetes on families and support resources.

The cost to register is $60 which includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and parking at the Buerger Center at CHOP.

For more information and to access the Eventbrite registration page, click on the image above or visit www.chop.edu/diabetes-school-2024.

Happy Thursday! Just sharing a great opportunity for caregivers to learn more about the basic skills for managing T1D. For more information, scan the bar code or reach out to the coordinator Breakthrough T1D.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Dexcom Users!!

Dexcom recently created a new sensor replacement policy.
Although Dexcom used to replace sensors that fell off early, moving forward when sensors fail for any reason other than a technical failure, they will only replace 3 sensors per year.

Dexcom will continue to replace all G6 and G7 sensors that have technical failures without any limit on the number of sensors replaced per year.

You MUST include the sensor serial number (G6 and G7) and transmitter serial number (G6 only) when you request a replacement. If you do not include the serial numbers, the sensor replacement will count against your 3 "goodwill" sensor replacements per year.

Dexcom G6 and G7 users can receive up to 3 "goodwill" sensor replacements for non-defective sensors per calendar year. Examples of non-technical sensor failures include: sensors that fall off early, sensors that are intentionally removed by the user, and user application errors.

In case of extenuating circumstances you can request to speak with the Technical Support Leadership team who may be able to authorize additional replacements.

More information regarding the full policy can be found at https://www.dexcom.com/sensor-replacement-policy

FYI- JDRF has changed their name😀

JDRF Rebrands as Breakthrough T1D to Accelerate Type 1 Research and Advocacy JDRF has rebranded itself as Breakthrough T1D, reflecting its mission to cure, prevent, and treat type 1 diabetes.

Congratulations to our graduating fellows who celebrated on Friday! They have worked tirelessly to help our families and diabetes teams and we want to wish them all the best as Endocrinologists🤩🎓🎉

Our inpatient team does a great job with Friday themes, celebrations and raising awareness of important topics.

Last week, they celebrated Pride Month by wearing the rainbow of colors with clouds on either side! ☁️ 🌈☁️

Today they are all wearing orange for victims of gun violence awareness day. We all thought it was important as Pediatric Providers to raise awareness today. 🧡

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Alisha, Cheryl and Stephanie organized an amazing event for our division “Le Endo en Blanc”. The event brought together staff for a wonderful and elegant afternoon together. 🤍

Congratulations to Sue Dumser! This morning she received the Nurse of the Year Award from the CHOP residents. Sue has been a key member of the inpatient diabetes team and goes above and beyond for patients. She is an excellent partner to the residents, diligently training each group which comes through the endocrine unit… every 2 weeks! They recognized her contribution to their education and her dedication to patient care with this well-deserved award.

Sue & her daughters pictured here after the resident graduation ceremony.

Shea is an inspiration using her diabetes devices while dancing her heart out! Thanks for sharing and keep dancing Shea! 💙

News alert! In case you haven’t already heard, the Tandem Mobi pump is now integrated with Dexcom G7!

Tandem Diabetes Care and Dexcom announced that the Dexcom G7 CGM and the Tandem Mobi insulin pump are now connected.
Source: Beyond Type 1

Tandem Mobi Pump and the Dexcom G7 CGM Are Now Connected Tandem Diabetes Care and Dexcom announced that the Dexcom G7 CGM and the Tandem Mobi insulin pump are now connected.

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Join Our Survey Study for Children with Type 1 Diabetes!

We are conducting a study to understand what impacts families’ interests in using automated insulin delivery systems. If your child has a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and is not using an automated insulin pump, we’d love to hear from you! As a gesture of gratitude, participants who complete the survey will receive a gift card!

Take a look at the flyer below for more information. Thank you for considering our research!

Tandem pump care for summer - great tips here!🌞

Tandem pump care for summer adventures Summer is here, and it’s time for fun in the sun! Let's review some hot tips and great features that can help your patients get more out of their Tandem insulin pump — and their outdoor adventures.

Great news today for Keystone First and AmeriHealth Caritas families! 💙💙

CHOP and AmeriHealth Caritas, Keystone First reach new contract deal The new deal arrives ahead of a June 30 final deadline when patients would have lost coverage for CHOP services under AmeriHealth Caritas plans.

T1D 💙 looks like a girl in the boat! Ellie, fourth from the left, and her swift and strong women’s crew team from Williams College have qualified for the NCAA DIII crew championships this weekend! Not only does Ellie carry with her all of the good diabetes information that she has learned on the Turtle 🐢& Koala 🐨 teams, she is also bringing a speed potion to the meet! Ellie babysits for Eloise, a first grader near her college campus, who is into magic and potions and she and Ellie stirred up the potion for the team! Let’s hope these women row fast!

Women’s Crew Team Secures 19th bid to NCAA DIII Rowing Championship - Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. -- Paula Thoms' Eph team was awarded an at-large berth in this year's NCAA DIII Rowing Championship to be contested on East Fork/Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio May 31 and June 1.