January 2025

A Transition Message from our Medical Director

Dear Friends,

Earlier this month I announced my resignation from T1D Exchange effective February 4th, 2025. It has been a great honor to serve the diabetes community and the T1DX-QI collaborative for the past seven years. In the coming weeks I will be announcing my next steps and you can be assured that I will be remaining in the diabetes space.

Together we achieved a lot during my tenure as I highlighted in my November 2024 collaborative talk, which is also summarized below. As our T1DX-QI collaborative grows, it is important we continue to champion quality and equity beyond our network. Last year, I had the distinct honor to serve as a subject matter expert with the ADA Standards of Care committee where I had the privilege of championing two new approved standards:

Standard 1.5 Health systems should adopt a culture of quality improvement, implement benchmarking programs, and engage interprofessional teams to support sustainable and scalable process changes to improve quality of care and health outcomes. Evidence Level A
Standard 1.6 Health systems should assess and address disparities in diabetes care and health outcomes (e.g., by stratifying clinical quality data by factors such as insurance status, race, ethnicity, preferred language for health care discussions, disability, and other social determinants of health). Evidence Level C

Quality Improvement and addressing health equity is now a diabetes standard of care, thanks to your hard work.

It's been a great run, and I am grateful for the opportunity to lead, and I would love to continue to stay in touch with you all. You can connect with me via LinkedIn and/or osagie.ebeks@gmail.com.

With sincere gratitude,

Osagie Ebekozien, MD, MPH, CPHQ

Chief Medical Officer

Celebrating Dr. Ebekozien's Tenure

Together, we have transformed countless lives, and with our dedication to supporting people with diabetes, we are poised for even greater advancements. The following is a testament to our collective journey.

A heartfelt thank you to our incredible team of clinicians, advanced care providers, nurses, developers, coordinators, analysts, schedulers, administrators, and every unsung hero who has partnered with us to achieve these outstanding results.

2024 Invoice Reminder

Please send us invoices for 2024 now!

For your Statements of Work with T1D Exchange, all invoices for deliverables completed on or before December 31, 2024, must be invoiced on or before 5pm EST March 7, 2025. Please work with your finance teams to ensure that we receive your invoices as we will be unable to process past due invoices for Calendar year 2024 after 3/7/2025.

Invoice for payment following the deliverables schedule in 1.C and/or 1.D and include deliverable number and date. All payments will be made through electronic funds transfer (EFT). Please include your banking information on invoice.

Bank account name & address
Bank account number
Bank account routing number

Invoices should be sent via email attachment.

To: t1dxap@t1dexchange.org

CC: nrioles@t1dexchange.org

linda.crasco@t1dexchange.org

rweathers@t1dexchange.org

Kindly forward this reminder to your finance contacts so that they are aware of the deadline.

Q&A Corner

There have been several newly asked questions on the internal member website. Please use this link to respond and see all questions.

Question:

Does anyone have experience supporting their associated medical school’s free clinic with diabetes care? I want to develop some educational curriculum and resources to help them optimize their patients with diabetes and would love to hear about anyone’s experiences. Also if anyone has a similar need we could collaborate in developing a curriculum or advocacy packet.

Name: Grenye O’Malley, MD

Clinic: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Use this link to view the question.

Question:

I’d like to develop a checklist of skills and competencies for success on HCL that can be used to be sure we’ve provided patients and families with all appropriate education prior to pump start. Does anyone use something like this to ensure all skills for success are taught, reinforced or reviewed prior to pump start?

Name: Amanda Perkins, MSN, MPH, CPNP, CDCES

Clinic: Children’s National Hospital

Use this link to view the question.

Events & Reminders

T1D Clinical Trial Opportunity

Interested in sharing information about a clinical trial for a new mealtime insulin that may reduce one's risk of dangerous nighttime lows? If you know an adult with T1D, see if they're eligible for a research study to determine if a new mealtime insulin can improve glucose management while lowering the risk of nighttime lows!
Help researchers see if a new liver-targeted insulin, HDV-Lispro, improves glucose storage in the liver and lowers the chances of nighttime lows in adults with type 1 diabetes!
Get started by answering a few questions to check study eligibility: https://t1dx.co/3ByxOjA

The Diabetes Education & Camping Association (DECA) unites and advances the diabetes camp community with networking, education and innovation. DECA's vision is A World Where Everyone with Diabetes has a Place to Belong! https://www.diabetescamps.org/. To find your local camp, click here https://www.diabetescamps.org/find-a-camp/.
Stanford School of Medicine is inviting Physicians, CDCES and APPs who care for youth with T1D on public insurance to share their experiences. Use this link to view more information.
T1D Camps RFP that is now available for all U.S. based diabetes camps to apply for camperships and more. Please find more details in the press release.