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ForwardWebinar: Compassion in Action: Inclusive Care for Patients with Diabetes
Understanding the detrimental impact of weight bias and stigma on diabetes care is crucial. People living with diabetes often face harmful assumptions about their health and body size, which can negatively impact the care they receive. These experiences can erode trust, discourage follow-up care, and worsen long-term health outcomes. This webinar will explore how weight bias and stigma influence diabetes management and what healthcare professionals can do differently to provide respectful, person-centered care.
With a focus on the shared role of Registered Dietitians, Physicians, and Licensed Social Workers, this session illustrates how coordinated care can strengthen trust, communication, and well-being for people living with diabetes. We will discuss common misconceptions surrounding diabetes, examine how stigma affects clinical decision-making, and outline strategies for delivering weight-inclusive care that prioritizes health behaviors rather than appearance or assumptions about lifestyle.
Join Esther Tambe, RDN, CDCES, on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, from 2–3:30 p.m. ET, for an engaging session designed to enhance your communication and counseling skills. Through practical examples and tools, you can immediately apply in your daily practice, you’ll learn how to reduce stigma, build stronger therapeutic relationships, and create care environments where every individual with diabetes feels heard, valued, and empowered to take an active role in their treatment plan.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Explain at least three misconceptions about diabetes and how they contribute to stigma and bias in healthcare settings.
- Describe the distinct roles of Registered Dietitians, Physicians, and Licensed Social Workers in diabetes care and two ways to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Analyze how weight bias and stigma influence clinical decision-making and patient engagement in diabetes management.
- Implement two weight-inclusive care strategies that focus on health-promoting behaviors rather than weight loss.
Additional Information
Esther Tambe, RDN, CDCES, is a New York–based weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. She specializes in eating disorders, diabetes, and culturally responsive nutrition care, with a strong commitment to supporting Black women and communities of color. Esther is passionate about dismantling weight stigma in healthcare and empowering individuals to heal their relationship with food while managing chronic conditions. She has presented nationally on weight bias, inclusive care, and the intersection of eating disorders and diabetes. Beyond her private practice, Esther co-founded Fight Through Flights, a nonprofit supporting the healing of Black women impacted by breast cancer through free restorative wellness and travel experiences.
Disclosures:
The faculty and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60-minute hour = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Workers:
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Great Valley Publishing Company is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course will receive 1.5 general types of continuing education credits.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
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