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Program Overview

Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease is one of six programs offered in the Diabetes Simplified Series. The Diabetes Simplified series aims to provide practical approaches to diabetes care that practitioners can immediately implement in their practices, based on the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines.

This eLearning reviews the guideline recommendations for management of type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) with a focus on initiating guideline recommended therapy in people with type 2 diabetes and CKD.

This program has been certified by the College of Family Practice of Canada for up to 2 MainPro+ credits.

Learning Objectives

• Review the guideline recommendations for management of type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD)
• Initiate guideline recommended therapy in people with type 2 diabetes and CKD
• Discuss the different approaches to improve renal outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes and CKD

Faculty

James Kim 

MBBCh, PgDip(Diabetes), MScCH(HPTE) 

Dr Kim is a general practitioner in Calgary with special interest in chronic disease, especially in diabetes and migraine. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of Calgary. He works as a peer reviewer and editorial board member for number of medical journals. He has given numerous presentations locally, and nationally on the topics of chronic migraine, binge eating disorder, ADHD, respiratory medicine and internationally on diabetes. He has also given number of presentations on behalf of national organizations such as Diabetes Canada and Migraine Canada at various conferences. 

Within Diabetes Canada, his role includes steering committee member for the Clinical Practice Guideline, current co-chair of Primary Care Special Interest Group, Dissemination and Implementation member, author of the guideline, and has been a scientific planning committee member for the annual Diabetes Canada Conference. He is heavily involved with medical educations for the health care providers including development of numerous medical education programs. He has recently obtained a master’s degree in health care professional educations through the University of Toronto, and a guest speaker at University of Toronto and University of Calgary on the same topic. Most recently, he has been invited to join the committee for one of the international associations focusing on medical education.