Complex Endocrinology ECHO
Discover how specialist and primary care collaboration in complex endocrinology can
benefit you and your patients. Questions? Let us know how to reach you.
Improve Access to Complex Care Treatment
Patients with complex medical conditions in New Jersey sometimes wait up to six months to see a specialist.
Improve Patient Outcomes
Investing time to learn how to provide specialty treatment to your patients in your primary care office, where they are most comfortable, can improve patient outcomes.
Grow Your Primary Care Practice Capacity
Research shows that providers who attend Project ECHO sessions increase their ability to treat patients and offer community resources and referrals to patients and caregivers. When multiple providers in one practice attend the same or different ECHOs, capacity to treat patients expands exponentially.
How to Participate
Access your ECHO clinics from anywhere, using your computer or mobile device.
- Register for your Project ECHO of choice
- 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per 60-minute session attended
- No-charge consultation with a multidisciplinary team of specialists on active cases
- Attend a minimum of 12 out of 48 ECHO clinic sessions over a period of one year
- Present a minimum of one de-identified case per quarter
- No homework
- IT support available
Learning Objectives
After participating in ECHO, providers will be able to:
- Effectively diagnose complex endocrinology disease states according to evidence-based guidelines
- Formulate and implement acceptable treatment modalities for complex endocrinology disease states according to evidence-based guidelines
- Identify and integrate comorbid conditions in complex endocrinology disease state treatment plans according to evidence-based guidelines
- Identify and conduct appropriate community resource referrals for patients with complex endocrinology disease states and their caregivers
Complex Endocrinology ECHO Session Leaders
Stephen Schneider, MD, Endocrinologist
Louis Amorosa, MD, Endocrinologist
Jackie Plick, APN, Diabetes Educator
Mary Bridgeman, PharmD, Pharmacist
Laura Montenegro, MSW, LSW, Social Worker
Complex Endocrinology ECHO Curriculum
Thursdays 7:30-8:30 am
Month 1: Diabetes BLOCK 1
Week 1: Distinguishing between T1DM and T2DM in the newly diagnosed patient
Week 2: Epidemiology and pathogenesis of T1 and T2 DM
Week 3: When to send the patient to an endocrinologist
Week 4: Psychiatric aspects of diabetes
Month 2: Thyroid BLOCK 1
Week 1: Diagnosis of hyper and hypothyroid disease
Week 2: Treatment of hyperthyroidism
Week 3: Treatment of hypothyroidism
Week 4: Thyroiditis
Month 3: Injectables/Insulin BLOCK
Week 1: Initiating insulin for T1DM
Week 2: Initiating insulin for T2DM
Week 3: Newly available insulin analogues
Week 4: New injectable agents for the treatment of diabetes
Month 4: Diabetes BLOCK 2
Week 1: The diabetic foot
Week 2: Appropriate goals for glucose in subgroups with diabetes
Week 3: Appropriate goals for lipids and blood pressure in subgroups with diabetes
Week 4: Diabetic eye disease
Month 5: Social Services BLOCK
Week 1: Community resources for patients
Week 2: Financial resources for patients in NJ
Week 3: How to get the best deal on diabetes drugs
Week 4: Insurance and legal issues in diabetes
Month 6: Thyroid BLOCK 2
Week 1: Approach to thyroid nodule
Week 2: Approach to thyroid cancer
Week 3: PHQ-9/depression
Week 4: Grave’s disease
Month 7: Diabetes BLOCK 3
Week 1: Diabetic neuropathy
Week 2: Diabetic kidney disease
Week 3: Cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes
Week 4: Prevention programs in prediabetes — when to start educating
Month 8: Metabolic Bone Disease BLOCK
Week 1: Osteoporosis
Week 2: Hypercalcemia
Week 3: Hyperkalemia
Week 4: Pagat’s disease
Month 9: Diabetes BLOCK 4
Week 1: Diabetes and coronary artery disease
Week 2: Microvascular complications — neuropathy treatment
Week 3: Microvascular complications — retinopathy
Week 4: Autonomic dysfunction in diabetes
Month 10: Pituitary BLOCK
Week 1: Male hypogonadism
Week 2: Diagnosis and treatment of adrenal insufficiency
Week 3: Hyperprolactinemia
Week 4: Transgender patients
Month 11: Diabetes BLOCK 5
Week 1: Glucose monitoring and diabetes technology
Week 2: Standard oral agents in the treatment of T2DM
Week 3: Diabetes in adolescents
Week 4: Pancreatitis and hypertriglyceridemia in diabetes
Month 12: Obesity BLOCK
Week 1: Treatment of obesity with drugs
Week 2: Effects of bariatric surgery on diabetes
Week 3: Diet and exercise for the obese with T2DM
Week 4: Diet and exercise in the T1DM on insulin (CHO counting)
