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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. Our team at Mesa Family Physicians specializes in geriatric medicine, addressing the complex health needs that can arise with aging.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. It treats diabetes, it prevents progression of chronic kidney disease.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So they are an important part of developing a relationship where one of the manifestations clearly is, “Well, yeah, I felt good about that. William: Not the future, but the present.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Midnight special shine a light on me or let the midnight special shine a light on me let the midnight special shine another loving light on me.” It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He was a terrible diabetic. And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. I mean, you know, you mentioned diabetes. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that.