ASK Screening Program, CU-Anschutz

09/19/2025

Health Care Providers: This symposium is for you!

 Target Audience: Healthcare professionals including MD, DO, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers, and dieticians; researchers in the area of screening, monitoring, and prevention of diabetes; lay representatives of patient organizations and representatives of funding agencies.

08/25/2025

Health Care Providers - This Ask the Experts mini-fellowship is for you!
Earn credits and learn more about screenings, diagnoses, and monitoring by attending this free 1-day, hands-on education seminar.

A One-Day Intensive for Pediatric Primary Care on Early Type 1 Diabetes Detection & Ongoing Care — September 25th, 2025

05/05/2025

Visit us at ASKhealth.org to learn more about free and screenings for children (age 1 year+) and adults (18 years+).

A research program offering FREE SCREENINGS to Colorado kids (ages 1-17), and their parents, to detect Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac (at Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, CU Anschutz Medical Campus)

04/17/2025

At the ASK program, we're pleased to know our health care colleagues find value in our no cost and disease screenings, helping them identify the sources of health issues faced by their patients.

Dr Vega responds to reader comments about the best course of action for a suspected case of adult-onset type 1 diabetes.

10/28/2024

We’re happy to announce that since the ASK screening program launched in 2017, we have now completed 40,000 screenings!

Of all those tested, 1% screened positive for T1D biomarkers, and more than 2% had biomarkers for celiac disease.

Screening works! People who screen positive have important opportunities to prepare and plan for these autoimmune diseases before they experience symptoms and, in some cases, can delay the onset of symptoms.

ASK is a research program launched by the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes (BarbaraDavisCenter.org) that offers SCREENINGS AT NO COST to ALL U.S. children (ages 1-17) and adults to detect Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease.

Learn more and request a screening at ASKhealth.org

10/04/2024

We love re-sharing the King family's important message about the high value of early screenings!

09/07/2024

This short video, created by the ASK Screening Program, CU-Anschutz, offers sound arguments for physicians to provide screenings for their patients, whether a family history for T1D exists or not. We encourage you to watch these sisters explain why these screenings matter to them and their families.

The ASKscreening program (ASKhealth.org) and the STOP T1D program (STOPT1Dprogram.org) were both created by the doctors and researchers at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes on the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado (BarbaraDavisCenter.org).

ASK's mission is to bring awareness to the community of the importance of and Disease—the two most common diseases of childhood—and to reduce health risks of delayed diagnosis of these diseases. ASK offers free screenings for both T1D and celiac disease for kids 1-17 years old and adults.

The STOP T1D program's mission is to raise awareness among Health Care Providers ( ) and communities about the critical importance of early detection and the severe consequences of delayed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes - and to educate and empower and organizations with the knowledge, competence, and tools necessary for effective screening, timely diagnosis, and age-specific monitoring practices.

STOP T1D offers a free, online, course for and professionals interested in knowing more about type 1 diabetes. Visit STOPT1Dprogram.org/for-hcp to review and register for the course.

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06/13/2024

This is exciting news for Health Care Providers! STOP T1D is offering a free, accredited, online course for physicians and nurses interested in gaining credits and learning more about early detection and monitoring of pre-symptomatic .

CME-Accredited Program Educates Health Care Providers on Best Practices in Type 1 Diabetes Screening and Monitoring

05/15/2024

Meet the driving forces behind the creation of the internationally recognized Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes (barbaradaviscenter.org) on the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus and the development of type 1 diabetes screening, education, and programs like STOPT1Dprogram.org (HCP education and T1D information), ASKhealth.org (T1D screening and information), and AskTheExperts.org (T1D monitoring, resources, and support).

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-family-creates-center-for-diabetes-research-treatment/

The Barbara Davis Center provides world class care to people living with diabetes from 33 countries and 46 states.

11/16/2022

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WHAT IS SCREENING ALL ABOUT?

ASK is a FREE health screening for Childhood Diabetes ( ) and Celiac Disease (CD) for children, ages 1–17, including those with NO family history of either disease.

When you sign up for screening through the ASK Program, a small amount of blood will be collected from your child.

This blood will be tested for markers, called autoantibodies, which are the first signs of childhood diabetes and/or celiac.

You will be contacted with the results of the screening.

If the results are positive, we would confirm these results and provide free follow-up. The ASK Follow-Up Program is there for you if your child is screened positive.

Your participation in the ASK Research Program could help change the standards for pediatric care by helping scientists at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes assess the benefits and cost-effectiveness of universal screening for and Disease—the two most common autoimmune diseases of childhood.

Know your child's status so you can be prepared.

FIND OUT MORE AND SEE SCREENING LOCATIONS AT https://www.askhealth.org

11/15/2022

From our colleagues at ChildrensDiabetesFoundation.org

It's - Check out these facts that may surprise you!

The ASK program screens kids between 1-17 years old for and disease for FREE. Learn more at ASKhealth.org

11/14/2022

: The ASK screening program doesn’t diagnose your child with a condition, but identifies the autoantibodies that may indicate your child is at risk for ( ) or Disease.

Screening can prevent serious and sometimes life-threatening symptoms (DKA) from occurring in an ER/hospital.

Your child’s screening results are kept confidential, but you may decide to share the findings with your child’s physician.

Learn more about our free screenings for kids at ASKhealth.org