‘Diabetes: New Concepts of an Old Disease’ is topic of upcoming Mini Medical School at UF
How close are scientists to finding cures for insulin-dependent diabetes and for the type II form of the disease? What are University of Florida researchers contributing to early diabetes detection, better treatment and prevention?
Recent discoveries, gleaned from both patient-care experience and laboratory research, will be discussed by two senior medical faculty at the third and final session of the UF Health Science Center’s 7th annual Mini Medical School. The free public program is scheduled 6:30-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 17, with exhibits open until 9 p.m.
Keynote speakers---family physician Dr. Whit Curry and diabetes researcher Mark Atkinson, of UF’s College of Medicine---will share updated information that can be applied to improve the quality of life for people with diabetes. Dr. Curry is professor and chairman of the medical school’s department of community health and family medicine, and is extensively involved in the medical care and education of patients with diabetes. Atkinson fills an endowed position as the S. Family American Diabetes Association professor for diabetes research, and is director of UF’s Center for Immunology and Transplantation. Both have published extensively in medical literature.
Educational exhibits and diabetes risk assessments will be sponsored by diabetes educators and nurse practitioners from the UF Physicians Diabetes Center and the Northeast Florida/Southeast Georgia Office of the American Diabetes Association. Exhibitors will provide take-home information on optimum health care for people with diabetes, including guidelines for good nutrition.
No registration is required for the program, entitled “Diabetes: New Concepts Regarding an Old Disease,” to be held in the medical sciences auditorium at UF’s Health Science Center. Guides will direct visitors from the parking garage on the east side of Shands at UF hospital (Southeast Archer Road) to the nearby program site.
Mini Medical School: Health Discoveries 2000 is sponsored by the University of Florida Medical Guild and the UF Health Science Center’s Office of Public Information, in cooperation with Shands HealthCare.
For further information, call (352) 392-2844 or check this Web site: http://health-discoveries.health.ufl.edu. For special accommodations, please call 72 hours in advance of May 17.