Coming Soon: Level 5 | Assessing & Preventing Lower Extremity Ulcerations & Amputations
Join us live on June 10, 2025, at 11:30 am PST to watch our brand new webinar, Assessing & Preventing Lower Extremity Ulcerations & Amputations by Dr. Mark Hinkes, DPM, DABFAS, FACFAS, FAPWCA
In this course, Dr. Mark Hinkes will describe the critical role of diabetes care and education specialists in the assessment of the lower extremities concerning diabetes foot ulcer and amputation prevention. He will outline the identification of risk factors for the development of diabetes foot ulcers and amputations and detail the steps involved in a comprehensive diabetes foot exam. Attendees will learn how to use international guidelines to stratify individuals into risk and screening categories combined with evidence-based medicine to prevent lower extremity complications.
Objectives:
- Perform a comprehensive diabetes foot exam that includes a vascular and neurological evaluation plus identification of bone, soft tissue, and nail deformities.
- Utilize the information from the exam as data to stratify individuals into internationally accepted risk groups and refer to members of the interdisciplinary team for risk mitigation.
- Identify when to re-screen individuals depending upon identified risks and risk categories and apply the guidelines of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) to prevent "category creep" leading to diabetes foot ulcers and amputations.
- Describe how risk data may be used to nourish machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to provide predictive analytics leading to personalized medicine.
Learning Outcome:
Healthcare professionals will gain confidence in assessment, screening, and risk mitigation to prevent lower extremity complications in individuals living with diabetes.
Instructor:
Dr. Mark Hinkes, DPM, DABFAS, FACFAS, FAPWCA, is a Podiatrist who is Board certified by the American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgery, and a Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association with 40+ years’ experience providing foot health care; 20 years in private practice and 20 years in the Veterans Affairs Medical System as former Chief of Podiatry Section and Chair of the Preservation Amputation Care Treatment (PACT) Program.
Dr. Hinkes' passion for excellence in the prevention of the comorbidities of diabetes led him to develop the ePrevenir platform, a cloud-served, machine learning driven, clinical decision support system designed to help predict and prevent the four co-morbidities of prediabetes and diabetes. The ePrevenir tool can be used in the primary care provider's office by ancillary staff to evaluate and manage the comorbidities of pre-diabetes and diabetes by five modules, one each for the feet, eyes, kidneys, and cardiovascular system and prediabetes.
Fee: $29.00
Earn 1.5 CEs
Accreditation: Diabetes Education Services is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider 12640, and this course awards listed CPEUs in accordance with the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s CPEU Prior Approval Program.
The use of DES products does not guarantee the successful passage of the certification exam. CBDCE and ADCES do not endorse any preparatory or review materials for the CDCES or BC-ADM exams, except for those published by CBDCE & ADCES.
