Program Overview

Therapeutic lifestyle change is an essential component of treating patients with cardiometabolic risk. All members of the interdisciplinary health care team should have the knowledge and training to assess, facilitate, and empower patients to make healthy lifestyle changes.

This new activity from the American Diabetes Association will enhance the knowledge and skills of the health care professional by providing them with key strategies and case examples to assist them in obtaining optimum patient goals. This program is available online, free of charge to registered participants and should take approximately one hour to complete.

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Facilitating Behavior Change: Key Strategies for Empowering Your Patients is an activity of the American Diabetes Association's Cardiometabolic Risk Initiative, which is supported by unrestricted educational grants from Eli Lilly and Company, Merck/Merck-Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Pfizer, Inc., sanofi-aventis and Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America.