Tomorrow morning, our team will be flying out to Austin for South by Southwest (SXSW) 2017, an annual conference focused on technology, culture, and entertainment. For the first time ever, The diaTribe Foundation will be producing two panels during the SXSW Health track entitled “How Do We Prevent a Diabetes Avalanche?” and “A #)$%(*% Crisis: Training the Newest Gen of Docs”. We hope these panels inspire awareness and urgency, ignite bold ideas, and elevate the conversation around diabetes and chronic disease at SXSW and beyond.
 
To everyone attending SXSW, we would love to invite you to join us during our panels – more details on each session below! For those who won't be able to attend, we'll be sharing content via social media (make sure to follow @diaTribeNews and @KellyClose), my blog, and diaTribe.org to keep you all in the loop! We'd also be so honored if you could share our panels on social media to help raise awareness (sample Twitter posts below). SXSW is a very large conference with a tech-focused crowd, and we want to make sure that diabetes is on the front line! Thank you so much for your consideration and please let us know if you’ll be in Austin – we hope to see you there!

 Panel Details:

How Do We Prevent a Diabetes Avalanche?
March 12, 2017 from 3:30-4:30PM – Austin Convention Center Room 9C
Social Media Hashtag: #DiabetesAvalanche
 
Panelists:

• Adam Brown (Moderator) – The diaTribe Foundation
• Phyllisa Deroze – Black Diabetes Info
• Sarah Mummah – IDEO
• Marie Schiller – Eli Lilly and Company

 
Thirty years ago, there were 1 in 180 people globally with diabetes. Today there are 1 in 11. Type 2 diabetes is bankrupting us – $200 billion is spent annually in the US alone, and outcomes remain suboptimal. Spending on prevention is miniscule compared to spending on treatments – and doctors, nurses, health systems, payers, and society are finding success elusive. Disturbingly, 86 million Americans currently have prediabetes, meaning an avalanche of type 2 diabetes is on the horizon! This panel will put diabetes and prediabetes in perspective, ruminate on how to move prevention into hyperdrive, and motivate a country to success. Tobacco, recycling, and seat belts did it; why can’t we?
 
 
A #)$%(*% Crisis: Training the Newest Gen of Docs
March 13, 2017 from 11:00AM – 12:00PM – Austin Convention Center Room 9AB
Social Media Hashtag: #NextGenDocs
 
Panelists:

• Susan Cox (Moderator) – Dell Medical School at UT Austin
• Erin Kane – Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sarah Kim – University of California San Francisco
• Bon Ku – Thomas Jefferson University

 
End of life spending and chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity are bankrupting our country. We are in a true crisis, yet medical school education hasn’t changed in most universities to meet the demands of modern-day medicine. In the few schools attempting to design an innovative curriculum (Dell Medical School, UT Austin!), the fear is that students will graduate into old systems for which they weren’t trained. Investing in designing new medical schools, education, and curricula is far too infrequent. Disturbingly, doctors routinely think very differently from their patients and families. Some are on a different planet. What gives? How to change this? What is sustainable?

 

Sample Tweets:
 
Make sure to check out @diaTribeNews’ #DiabetesAvalanche panel at #SXSW ! @ideo @LillyDiabetes @BlkDiabeticInfo bit.ly/2m0aIso
 
Can’t wait to hear @BonKu @ekane0 @susanmcox3 and @UCSF’s Sarah Kim discuss med #education at #SXSW! #NextGenDocs bit.ly/2m0g871