Boonshoft School of Medicine seminar to focus on diabetes in Montgomery County

Approximately 30 million children and adults have diabetes in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Locally, public health officials, health care professionals and social workers are collaborating to address diabetes in Montgomery County.

To provide professionals with information related to health disparities and diabetes in the community and among specific groups in Montgomery County, the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities HealthLink and the Ohio State Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Region IV will present a half-day seminar, “Montgomery County Health Disparities: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic.”

The seminar will be on Tuesday, March 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at Madison Lakes Learning and Conference Center, 581 Olive Road in Dayton. Registration is at 8 a.m.

Diabetes is a disease in which a person has a high level of glucose, a type of sugar, in his or her blood, according to the Ohio Department of Health. A person is diabetic when he or she can no longer utilize or produce enough insulin to regulate his or her blood glucose level.

Presenters include Susan McGovern, executive director, Diabetes Dayton; James R. Ebert, M.D., associate professor of community health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, and lead physician, Pediatric Lipid Clinic, Dayton Children’s Hospital; and Duane Dickens, M.D., Trotwood Physician Center.

Space is limited. There is a $20 nonrefundable registration fee.

For more information and to register, go to medicine.wright.edu/center-for-healthy-communities/healthlink-seminars. Registration closes March 1.

For more information, call Cindy Bradley at (937) 775-8248 or lucinda.bradley@wright.edu.

The Center for Healthy Communities HealthLink and AHEC Region IV present the annual series of continuing education quarterly seminars for health care professionals and interested community members.