Diabetes Core Update

In this special edition on Obesity as a Chronic Disease our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik will discuss the approach to treatment of obesity. This special episode is supported by an independent educational grant from Lilly.
Presented by:
Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health
Robert Kushner, M.D, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, former Director of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL.  Past-President of The Obesity Society, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists (ABPNS), and a founder and past-Chair of the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM).
Reference:
Developed by the Obesity Association's Professional Practice Committee, with input and support from multiple obesity and medical organizations, The Standards of Care in Overweight and Obesity offers a groundbreaking roadmap to empower health care professionals with the tools necessary to deliver the best possible evidence-based, pragmatic care to people with overweight and obesity.

In this special edition on CKD our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik will discuss epidemiology, pathophysiology and screening for CKD in People with Diabetes. This special episode is supported by an independent educational grant from Bayer.
Presented by:
Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health
Holly Kramer, M.D., Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Loyola University Chicago, past-president of the National Kidney Foundation, Editor-in-Chief of the National Kidney Foundation's journal,  Advances in Kidney Disease and Health (AKDH).  
Selected references:
Chronic Kidney Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2026 . The American Diabetes Association's Standards of Care 2026, Diabetes Care 2026;49 (Supplement_1) :S246–S260

In this special edition on Diabetes and Primary Care our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik will engage in an interesting discussion about the challenges, opportunities, and changing face of primary care in the management of diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. 
Presented by:
Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health
Osagie Ebekozien, M.D.,MPH, CPHQ,  Chief Quality Officer for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). In this role, he leads ADA efforts to transform diabetes and obesity quality outcomes and improving access to evidence-based practice.  
Christopher Jones, M.D., Medical Director, Internal Medicine Intermountain Health, Murray, Utah; Chair of the American Diabetes Association's Primary Care Interest Group Leadership Team.

This issue will review:
Real-World Prospective Validation and Economic Evaluation of Deep Learning-Based Diabetic Retinopathy Detection from Fundus Photographs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diabetes Care 2026;49:510–525;
An oral small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist for the treatment of obesity in people with type 2 diabetes (ATTAIN-2): a phase 3, double-blind, randomised, multicentre, placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet 2025;406:2929-2944;
FDA removal of SI for GLP-1s – FDA Announcement Neil Read/John Comment;
Effectiveness and Safety of Statins in Type 2 Diabetes According to Baseline Cardiovascular Risk: A Target Trial Emulation Study. Ann Intern Med 2025;172:157-167; and
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Risk of Optic Nerve or Vision-Threatening Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes or Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Diabetes Care 2026;49:526-535.
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association's science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic CARE, and beyond. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents recently published articles from ADA journals and more.
Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update   discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatment setting.
For more information about each of ADA's science and medical journals, please visit Diabetesjournals.org.
Hosts:
Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health
John J. Russell, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Chair-Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health

In this special edition on Obesity as a Chronic Disease our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik will discuss the root causes of obesity, the hormonal changes and metabolic adaptation that occurs when a person has obesity, and the implications of understanding obesity as a chronic disease for clinical practice. This special episode is supported by an independent educational grant from Lilly.
Presented by:
Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health
Donna Ryan, M.D, Professor Emeritus at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Past President of both the Obesity Society and the World Obesity Federation
Susan Kuchera, M.D, Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine in the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Program Director of the Jefferson Health Abington Family Medicine Residency Program.
Selected references:
Changes in Energy Expenditure Resulting from Altered Body Weight. N Engl J Med 1995;332:621-628
Long-Term Persistence of Hormonal Adaptations to Weight Loss. N Engl J Med 2011;365:1597-1604