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Welcome to Episode 35 of 'not ARTIFICIALLY Sweetened'!

Now with listeners in 28 countries, this Episode is brought to you in support of diabetes awareness and care by the CDE Online Pharmacy (https://cdeonline.co.za/), the online store of choice for people living with diabetes.

If you're living with diabetes or a health professional that facilitates diabetes care, you're in the right place!

Join our journey, as we grow together in understanding, insight, and self-awareness to change lives for the better. Our deliberations are always honest, challenging and thought provoking. Nothing is off the table as we discuss real people, their real issues and stories, and together discover real answers to many vexing practical issues in diabetes and its care.

This week, Stan and Michael remind listeners of the upcoming 25th CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management. They also continue their discussion on keeping in contact with the diabetes care team. This week they cover the principles of ‘emergency contact’ in community-based proactive preventative care, and how 24-hour telephonic ‘Emergency Hotlines’ provided by CDE Branches nationwide have been integral in preventing many thousands of unnecessary admissions and in saving many lives.

Our studio guest is Alisha Lalbeharie, a passionate podiatrist from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal

Alisha discusses:

• Her essential insightful preventative and treatment roles as a ‘lower-limb’ medical professional within the diabetes care team
• Possible neurovascular and other risk factors that affect lower limb and overall health in diabetes
• The importance and cost-effectiveness of regular foot examinations in all diabetes related consultations in the prevention of lower-limb amputations in diabetes
• The scarcity of podiatrists in South Africa, with only one university on the African continent (the University of Johannesburg) training podiatrists
• Her leadership and education roles as KZN Branch Chair for the Podiatry Association of South Africa
• Her specialised training that allows her to practice as a registered foot care medical professional
• The adverse impacts on quality of life, health and risk resulting from poor foot care
• Mood matters in holistic, person-centred foot care
• Her practice-changing learning experiences and insights gained while participating in the CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals
• The importance of comfortable, supportive footwear and daily self-examination and foot care in foot health
• The role of social and digital media in the evolution and expansion of safe, ethical access to health and podiatry care
• Her passion for excellence in practice management and
• Her hopes for the future of podiatry and diabetes related foot care in South Africa – a field currently in crisis

In our next Community Advocacy Message, Kirsten de Klerk from SA Diabetes Advocacy talks about the inclusion of people with lived experience of diabetes as session moderators in the upcoming SA Diabetes Summit for 2023. Find out more and register here: https://lcp.live/registration-2023-diabetes-summit/

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We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, suggestions, comments or contributions for future episodes, or if you'd like to advertise on this podcast, email us @ Podcast@CDEDiabetes.co.za

For health professionals working in diabetes

The CDE Postgraduate Forum in Diabetes Management is a state-of-the-art interactive weekend learning event for health professionals interested in the management of diabetes. Register for our 25th Annual Forum at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton (27-29 October 2023) @ https://www.cdediabetes.org/index.php/for-healthcare-professionals/annual-forum

The CDE Academy Foundation Course in Diabetes Care for Health Professionals is a real-world-applicable online learning experience at one’s own pace. Access it 24/7/365 & earn 30 CPD points: https://academy.cdeonline.co.za/