{"id":35315,"date":"2015-02-11T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=35315"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:27:03","slug":"boonshoft-school-of-medicine-seminar-to-focus-on-diabetes-in-montgomery-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/11\/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-seminar-to-focus-on-diabetes-in-montgomery-county-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boonshoft School of Medicine seminar to focus on diabetes in Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/02\/diabetes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35318\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/02\/diabetes1-260x90.jpg\" alt=\"Boonshoft School of Medicine seminar to focus on diabetes in Montgomery County\" width=\"260\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Approximately 30 million children and adults have diabetes in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, public health officials, health care professionals and social workers are collaborating to address diabetes in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>To provide professionals with information related to health disparities and diabetes in the community and among specific groups in Montgomery County, the <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.wright.edu\/center-for-healthy-communities\/healthlink-seminars\" target=\"_blank\">Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Center for Healthy Communities HealthLink<\/a> and the Ohio State Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Region IV will present a half-day seminar, \u201cMontgomery County Health Disparities: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Hospital; and Duane Dickens, M.D., Trotwood Physician Center.<\/p>\n<p>Space is limited. There is a $20 nonrefundable registration fee.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to register, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.wright.edu\/center-for-healthy-communities\/healthlink-seminars\" target=\"_blank\">medicine.wright.edu\/center-for-healthy-communities\/healthlink-seminars<\/a>. Registration closes March 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Cindy Bradley at (937) 775-8248 or <a href=\"mailto:lucinda.bradley@wright.edu\">lucinda.bradley@wright.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMontgomery County Health Disparities: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic\u201d seminar will held March 10 Madison Lakes Learning and Conference Center in Dayton. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/11\/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-seminar-to-focus-on-diabetes-in-montgomery-county-2\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":35316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,4161,725,2016,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-healthy-communities","category-home-news-sidebar","category-medicine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35321,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions\/35321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}