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		The Challenges of Living with Diabetes in Today's World General Information   I  Registration   I   Schedule   I   Invited Speakers Speakers Dr. Barbara J. Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and named Diabetes Educator of the Year for 2003. One of her research areas has been working with families of young patients with diabetes. She will discuss adolescent and young adult issues which interfere with optimal diabetes care. Dr. Ligia Belalcazar, Assistant Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at UTMB, Galveston. Dr Belalcazar is principal investigator of a study related to genetic deficiencies in biliary cholesterol and non-cholesterol sterol metabolism. She will lecture on the relationship between diabetes and vascular disease. Dr. Fannie E. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director of adult diabetes at The Stark Diabetes Center at UTMB in Galveston, TX. She is assistant professor in the division of endocrinology and a widely published diabetes researcher. She will lecture on pharmacologic and lifestyle interventions important in the treatment of diabetes and in the control of risk factors for complications. Dr. Pamela Watson, Dean of UTMB's School of Nursing has also worked as a principal investigator on a NIH funded clinical trial related to the prevention of Type 2 diabetes. She will be lecturing on how the results of the diabetes prevention trial translates into primary care goals. Catherine A. Mullooly, M.S., R.C.E.P., C.D.E., Director of Exercise Physiology at the Joslin Clinic in Boston, MA. She is widely published in the scientific literature and will lecture on the role of exercise in diabetes control and weigh maintenance. Karmeen Kulkarni, M.S., R.D., BC-ADM, C.D.E., is a widely published dietician, lecturer, and diabetes educator. She has had a great deal of input into the new nutrition guidelines for diabetes at the national level and will be lecturing on the process of evaluation and implementation of Medical Nutrition Therapy for diabetes. Barbara Schreiner, RN, MN, BC-ADM, CDE, Associate Director of the Texas Children's Hospital Diabetes/Endocrine Care Center, is a widely published diabetes researcher and lecturer as well as associate professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies and diabetes education programs.
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