Diabetes specialists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing are available to talk with media for stories on American Diabetes Month.
* Nutrition scientist Bart De Jonghe, PhD, focuses on obesity-related diabetes and development of Type II diabetes in adults and children.
* Terri Lipman, PhD, CRNP, professor of pediatric nursing, developed and maintains the only registry of pediatric Type 1 diabetes in Philadelphia. She is available to talk about diabetes in Latino and African American children and prevention of Type 2 diabetes through a healthy lifestyle. Her novel program "Dance for Health" is among the diabetes interventions that have brought national attention to her work.
* Biobehavioral scientist Nancy C. Tkacs, PhD, RN, conducts research on Type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia unawareness, and how behaviors such as sleep interact with diabetes control. With support from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Dr. Tkacs is developing an animal model of Type 1 diabetes to determine why drops in blood sugar tend to occur at night, which creates a high risk of hypoglycemic shock or coma.
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