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Diabetes as the Next Healthcare Epidemic: Challenges and Solutions Diabetes affects other people. This prevailing sentiment may be what prompted the New York Times to describe diabetes as “the stealth epidemic.” Nationally, however, diabetes affects 21 million men, women, and children (7% of the population), and diabetes rates – especially type 2 diabetes – are increasing at an alarming rate. People living with diabetes are at high risk to develop disease-related complications ranging from loss of eyesight to heart disease, and the human and economic costs of the disease are staggering. In 2002, diabetes contributed to an estimated 224,000 deaths and consumed 10% of the health care dollars spent in the U.S. The healthcare system continues to focus expensive treatments instead of prevention, and the overall fattening of America threatens our nation’s future. Type 1 diabetes rates are also on the rise. This often devastating form of diabetes can strike young children to people age 40-5- and is associated with the body causing complete destruction of the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. University of Virginia
physician/researchers Drs. Jerry Nadler and Raghu Mirmira will
discuss the worldwide epidemic of diabetes,
causes and prevention of type 1 and type 2 diabetes,
and will survey some of the promising research that is taking place
that may lead to a world free of both types of this disease. |
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April 28, 2006 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Event co-host: UVa Northern Virginia Center |
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About the Speakers Dr. Jerry L. Nadler Dr. Nadler has made important contributions to understanding the pathways associated with the causes of diabetes and related complications. Dr. Nadler has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. In 2001, Dr. Nadler was selected as the Co-Chairman for the National Institute of Health (NIH) Diabetes Center review committee. He has also serves on a special advisory committee to the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and has been on the Program Committee for the ADA National Scientific Sessions.
Dr. Raghu Mirmira Dr. Raghu Mirmira has a Ph.D. (in Biochemistry) and MD degree from the University of Chicago. He did his clinical and research training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Mirmira won the Thomas R. Lee Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association to investigate how insulin-producing cells form. |
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