Events:

·      November 6: Dr. Polonsky will be speaking on “Enriching Your Visits: Motivational Interviewing for Diabetes” at Touro University’s 2020 (Virtual) Diabetes Update.

·      November 7: It is time for Taking Control of Your Diabetes’ (TCOYD) Virtual Conference and Health Fair Across the Globe. This is an online interactive experience that is open to all people with diabetes everywhere. It will feature an extraordinary group of diabetes healthcare professionals, including our own Dr. Polonsky as one of the featured speakers.

·      November 9: BDI will host our next, San Diego-wide, case consultation meeting (for mental health professionals working in the field of diabetes). Contact us at info@behavioraldiabetes.org if you are in the greater San Diego area and would like further information about this program and about our future meetings.

Your Opportunity:

·      BDI has been working together with TCOYD over the past decade to develop and maintain the TCOYD Research Registry. Are you a member? If so, thanks so much! If not, please consider joining us. More than 5000 people with diabetes have joined the Registry to date. Thanks to their participation, we have published the results from numerous research investigations, all designed to help people with diabetes and their healthcare professionals better understand the psychological side of diabetes. When you join the Registry, you are not committing to anything. You are only permitting us to notify you when we next have an online survey study which you may be interested in participating. In almost all of our studies, we provide you with an online gift certificate as a way of thanking you for your participation. So if you are an adult with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, please know that you can now register online and it is really easy.

In the News:

·      Ginger Viera interviewed Dr. Polonsky for a wonderful new article, “I Struggle with Diabetes. Don’t Call Me ‘Non-Compliant’”, published several weeks ago in DiabetesMine, one of the best online resources for people with diabetes. As Ginger explains (and as our own Dr. Guzman has been advocating for years), we all need to work harder on changing our language about diabetes so as to stop the all-too-common shaming and blaming.

New Publications:

Do ups and downs in your glucose levels influence mood? If you’re interested in this question, please take a look at our newest research publication, “The influence of time in range on daily mood in adults with type 1 diabetes”, authored by Dr. Polonsky and our favorite colleague from Scripps Health, Dr. Addie Fortmann. Just published in Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications, this is one of the first studies to document this important relationship.

BDI’s fearless research director, Dr. Larry Fisher, is the lead author on a very timely new publication, “The early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes: A national cohort study.” Published in Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications, Dr. Fisher and his team surveyed more than 1300 people early in the pandemic and reports on the common stresses and strains that were emerging back in the first few months after the appearance of COVID-19.