October + San Diego Diabetes Conference = The Perfect Combination! 🌴
October is one of the best times to head to San Diego. The weather is gorgeous, the summer crowds are winding down, and there’s one more important reason to visit: our wildly popular DiabetesEd Training Conference is coming back to Liberty Station!
Located just minutes from the San Diego airport, this conference site is the perfect place to learn, connect, recharge, and have fun.
During the conference, you’ll have the opportunity to meet Rachel and Laura, our inspiring “Making a Difference” Scholarship recipients, expand your clinical knowledge with our expert teaching trio – Coach Bev, Diana Isaacs, and Christine Craig – network with fellow diabetes healthcare professionals, and, of course, win prizes!
So invite your colleagues, bring your family. 🏖️ Learn and connect during the day, then head out and enjoy beautiful SD at night.
And this year, we’re adding something new! For the first time ever, we’ll have an on-site photo booth 📸complete with fun props, thanks to the creative inspiration of Missy Hodges.
But plenty is happening even before we get to San Diego.
In this mid-month newsletter, we’re celebrating our deserving Scholarship 🧑🎓 recipients, sharing upcoming FREE Certification Webinars, and inviting you to join nationally recognized expert, Marie Frazzitta, for a timely exploration of the shift toward value-based care and digital outcomes metrics. Don’t miss Marie’s FREE webinar on September 30th and discover how diabetes healthcare professionals can join the transformation toward value-based care.
We hope to see you online in August & September—and in sunny San Diego 🌴 in October!
With hearts full of gratitude,
Coach Beverly, Bryanna, Ashlie, and Katarina
Congrats, Laura Zea!
As a nutritionist, Laura serves primarily Spanish-speaking older adults living with diabetes, many of whom face food insecurity, transportation barriers, and limited access to care. Through culturally responsive education, motivational interviewing, and thoughtful listening, she helps people feel heard and empowered.
Laura hopes as a first-generation Latina, to gain CDCES certification and continue to provide culturally responsive education and expand access to compassionate diabetes care in her community.
Congrats, Rachel Hilliard, FNP-C!
Rachel has served rural Comanche County in Texas for 25 years, providing diabetes care through an outpatient clinic, community screenings, and monthly volunteer work at a free clinic serving local dairy workers. She is committed to bringing diabetes care and education to an area where “folks are hungry for information” but access is limited. Her goal is to help people change outcomes through education, establish a sustainable diabetes education program, and leave “a legacy of health” for the community she has dedicated her career to serving.
Join us live in San Diego for our
DiabetesEd Training Program
Brand new agenda for 2026!
🌟Updated Schedule: ADA Boot Camp, Tech, MNT & More
Live in Beautiful San Diego – Oct 22-23, 2026
Re-Ignite your Passion & Prepare for Diabetes Certification Exams
🎓 Earn 30+ CEs: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACPE, ANCC, and CDR!
📅
2-Day Conference
Oct 22–23, 2026
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15.5 Live CEs
+ 17 bonus CEs
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CDCES & BC-ADM
Exam Prep + Renewal
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San Diego, CA
1.7 mi from airport
Advance Your Expertise and Prepare for Your Future
The field of diabetes care is expanding and evolving rapidly. This unique training conference will keep you on the cutting edge plus prepare you for certification exams. It also fulfills the Standards of Care renewal requirement. Join us for two days of intensive education that is fun and inspiring. Add on the optional Day 3 (Engaging the Disengaged), to complete your conference exeperience.
Day 1 – ADA/AACE Standards of Care Boot Camp
Coach Beverly and Diana Isaacs, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDCES co-lead an exciting day that brings the ADA and AACE Standards to life. Gain fresh insights, practical tools, and a deeper understanding of the latest in person-centered diabetes care. After attending, you will be empowered to share the latest in diabetes care with your colleagues and the people in your care.
Day 2 – Insulin, Tech, MNT and Case Studies
Take your knowledge to the next level with this intensive deep-dive into insulin therapy, dosing and pattern management with Dr. Diana Isaacs. Next, stay for the diabetes tech show-and-tell as Diana demonstrates the specs of the latest pumps and sensors. After lunch, nutrition whiz Christine Craig, MS, RDN, CDCES expertly details the latest in MNT and provides real strategies on translating this content to your clinical practice. You will have a chance to put it all together as Coach Beverly leads you through a series of case studies that integrates content from Day 1 and Day 2.
Add-On Day 3 – Engaging the Disengaged
On Saturday, join this exceptional day-long program led by William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDCES & Susan Guzman, PhD (Behavioral Diabetes Institute) that reveals psychosocial forces behind diabetes self-management — tools to break through resistance and inspire change.
Read more below
🌟Registration Options at a Glance
📜 Essentials
Registration
+ Printed Syllabus
$559.00
🌟 Deluxe
Essentials
+ ADA Standards Book
$589.00
🏆 Complete – Best Value!
Deluxe
+ ADCES Review Guide e-Book
$669.00
5 Reasons to Attend
- Led by national experts 👩⚕️Dr. Diana Isaacs (Cleveland Clinic), Coach Beverly 🧢 (30+ years of experience), and Christine Craig (nutrition whiz).
- 🌴 Location makes for a great vacation
- Networking, walking paths, connection
- Ready yourself for the diabetes future🚀
- Have fun, win prizes, play DiaBingo 😄
What's Included?
- 🍽️ Healthy breakfasts, lunch, refreshments and coffee ☕
- 📘 100-page printed syllabus
- 🎤 2 days of engaging, expert-led education with case studies.
- 🎓 12 FREE online courses ($375 value)
- Free MedPocketCard & Coach Bev’s Book 📗 Healing through Connection.
Add on a 3rd Day!
Enroll in
ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED
Strategies for Promoting Behavior Change in Diabetes
October 24, 2026
Transform how you engage patients with diabetes — master behavior change, reduce distress, and overcome medication hesitancy.
Why do so many patients know what they should do — but still struggle to do it?
The answer lies in the psychology of diabetes.
In this transformative full-day course, world-renowned experts William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDCES, and Susan Guzman, PhD, from the Behavioral Diabetes Institute reveal the hidden psychosocial forces that drive — or derail — diabetes self-management.
You’ll walk away with a completely new toolkit for breaking through patient resistance, dissolving medication hesitancy, and creating clinical encounters that actually inspire change!
