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Join us for an evening with the leading diabetes physicians and researchers, featuring an informal panel discussion about living with diabetes today and what we can expect in the ongoing battle against it.
Find the answers to questions that people with diabetes ask. For example:
- What are the symptoms of diabetes?
- Will I always have to take diabetes medicine?
- What is the best way to know that my medicine is working?
- What is pancreatic islet transplantation?
Panelists include:
Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism;
Mark H. Schutta, M.D., Medical Director, Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine;
Rexford S. Abima, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Obesity Unit and Associate Professor of Medicine;
Judy M. Hunt, Board Member, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter;
William Levy, Esq., Chair, Leadership Council Intitute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Executive Vice President, Brown Brothers Harriman;
Frances Love, R. N., MSN, CDE, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Penn Rodebaugh Diabetes Center
Ali Naji, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Type 1 Diabetes Unit and J. William White Professor of Surgery, Surgical Director, Pancreas & Kidney Transplant Center
Michael R. Rickels, M.D., M.S., Assistant Director Type 1 Diabetes Unit and Assistant Professor of Medicine |