Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Featured Speaker: Hunger Free Oklahoma
Join ONIE Dietitian, Stephanie DeBerry, MS, RDN, LDN to learn about the basic nutrition concepts including MyPlate food groups, how to interpret the nutrition label , breaking it down by each section to choose healthier foods, and simple, easy tips to help participants choose lower sodium, healthy foods. Attendees can expect to learn easy to understand concepts that can be applied in real life. WOW and ONIE Project's free nutrition education resources will be highlighted. Learning objectives include: 1. Recall the five MyPlate food groups; 2. Prioritize two nutrition label components when choosing foods; 3. Analyze sample nutrition label to determine if it meets the 1:1 standard.
Diabetes Update 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Featured Speaker: Heidi Macha, PharmD, BCACP
Join the Western Oklahoma Wellness project and Hunger Free Oklahoma for an overview of how food insecurity impacts rural health, grocery assistance and nutrition programs can improve community food security, and how individuals, organizations, and networks can build hunger-free communities! Learning objectives include explore how food security and health intersect; provide a quick overview of federal grocery assistance and nutrition programs that support healthier lifestyle choices; receive tools, strategies, and resources to foster hunger-free communities in your service area.
Learn about Inpatient Glycemic Control with PharmD, Mary Shreffler. Learning objectives for this webinar include recognize appropriate in-hospital glycemic targets for patient with diabetes; identify when an A1c should be obtained in hospitalized patients with diabetes; develop patient-specific insulin titrations when provided diet status, fasting and mealtime blood glucose readings, and total insulin received in a 24-hour period; evaluate the criteria for continuing oral anti-diabetic medication in hospitalized patient with diabetes. Mary Shreffler is a graduate from the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. After graduation, she attended a 24-month Pharmacotherapy Residency in Amarillo, TX at the Texas Tech University School of Pharmacy. She currently is a clinical pharmacist at the Family Medicine Center at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center when she splits her time between the inpatient and outpatient setting. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling to the National Parks with her family and hosting themed dinner parties for her friends and loved ones.
To Insulin and Beyond: Inpatient Glycemic Control
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Featured Speaker: Mary Shreffler, PharmD, BCPS
Join SWOSU Clinical Pharmacist, Heidi Macha, Pharm. D., BCACP to learn about the current state of diabetes. This presentation provides a review/update on primarily prediabetes and type 2 diabetes and what steps can be taken to prevent prediabetes from transitioning to diabetes and/or diagnosing type 2 diabetes early and making invterventions with the patient's best interest in mind. Learning objectives include discussing screening objectives for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes; list laboratory values that represent criteria and treatment goals; review of medication classes for diabetes; and identify resources available to help these with prediabetes and diabetes.
Join Meri Hix to learn about updates in definitions and screening for CKD, prevention strategies and outcomes of CKD, and collaboration in the management of complications after diagnosis of CKD. Meri Hix is a 2002 graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy. After completing pharmacy practice and geriatric pharmacy residencies at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock, AR, she embarked on a career of academia and clinical pharmacy starting in 2004, taking her to Chicago, IL, Abilene, TX, and finally back to Oklahoma in 2012 where she is currently an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at SWOSU COP. Over these years she has provided inpatient clinical pharmacy services in internal medicine, skilled nursing, and hospice. Her current practice is at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City with the inpatient family medicine service. Her past and current didactic teaching includes various topics in the pharmacotherapy sequence including renal, pain, thyroid, anemia, and geriatric cultural competency. She is a board-certified in pharmacotherapy specialist with interests in anticoagulation, renal disease, geriatrics, program assessment, and education and training.
Learn about youth onset Type 2 Diabetes with Dr. Jeanie B. Tryggestad, a native of Southwest Oklahoma. Dr. Jeanie B. Tryggestad is an associate professor of pediatrics in the section of diabetes/endocrinology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and holds the Paul and Ruth Jonas Chair in Diabetes/Endocrinology. Dr. Tryggestad’s clinical research interests are on the impact of youth onset type 2 diabetes on complications. She is a Co-Principle Investigator for the NIH funded TODAY trial in Oklahoma and served on the Comorbidity Assessment Committee. Her other research interest focus on the impact of maternal diabetes on the future cardiometabolic health of the offspring and the impact of obesity and diabetes on vascular function. She has been awarded grant through the NIH to understand the impact of maternal diabetes on miRNA expression and protein regulation in infants. She also serves as the co-director of the type 2 diabetes comprehensive clinic in youth at OU Children’s. Her clinical interests are focused on type 1 and type 2 diabetes with special focus on Native American populations. She also serves as the director of the Turner Syndrome Clinic.
Chronic Kidney Disease: Causes, Complications, and Management Strategies
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Featured Speaker: Meri Hix, PharmD, BCPS
Taking a look at Western Oklahoma specific resources and needs with Sarah Yount, PharmD, CDCES. Sarah's presentation will focus on specific Western Oklahoma populations to highlight physical and mental health concerns, identify current resources available, and utilization of those resources. Learning objectives include: to recognize population needs in Western Oklahoma; to identify existing resources within specific Western Oklahoma counties; and to describe opportunities for improving accessibility and utilization of resources in the state.
Youth Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Treatments, Complications, and the Path to Improve Outcomes
Thursday, July 19, 2022
Featured Speaker: Jeanie B. Tryggestad, MD
Join clinical pharmacist from SWOSU Rural Health Center, Sarah Yount, to discuss the impact of obesity in Oklahoma and how it relates to other chronic diseases. Sarah also discusses the National Diabetes Prevention Program, and how it can change the trajectory of diabetes and other related chronic conditions. Additionally, Sarah highlights pharmacotherapy as ways of treating these illnesses.
Impact of Obesity in Oklahoma
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Featured Speakers: Sarah Yount, PharmD, CDCES
Why is Health So Hard?
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Featured Speaker: Sarah Yount, PharmD, CDCES
Past Events
Nutrition Basics: MyPlate, the Nutrition Label, & Sodium, Oh My!
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Featured Speaker: Stephanie DeBerry, MS, RDN, LDN
