NDEP News & Notes
April 2007
Volume 3, Issue 4
In this Issue:
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., Named Director of NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced the appointment of Griffin
P. Rodgers, M.D. (pictured at left), as director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), effective April 1, 2007. Dr. Rodgers, who was appointed Deputy Director of NIDDK in January 2001, most recently was Acting Director of NIDDK, and he also serves as chief of NIDDK's Clinical and Molecular Hematology Branch.
Dr. Rodgers received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from Brown University. In addition to his medical and research training, he earned a master's degree in business administration, with a focus on the business of medicine, from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and the Association of American Physicians, among others. He is the chair of the Hematology Subspecialty Board and is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, in Emergency Medicine, and in Hematology.
As the new Director of NIDDK, Dr. Rodgers will oversee an annual budget of $1.8 billion and a staff of 650 scientists, physician-scientists, and administrators. The Institute conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health including diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases and nutrition, including obesity; and kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases. In addition, NIDDK also supports education programs to translate the results of research to health professionals, patients and the public, including NDEP.
Register
Now for the 2007 CDC Diabetes Translation Conference
Register now for the 2007 CDC Diabetes Translation Conference on April 30—May 3 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will bring together approximately 600 participants from a wide range of local, state, federal, and territorial governmental agencies and private-sector partners to discuss diabetes issues. For more information, click here.
April is Foot Health Awareness Month and National Minority Health Month
NDEP is promoting a new feature article, "Keeping Feet Healthy and Happy," during Foot Health Awareness Month to emphasize the importance of proper foot care for people with diabetes. The article includes specific action steps to help avoid serious foot complications that can lead to toe, foot, and leg amputations. We encourage you to use the article in your own publication, or use the information to write your own article.
For National Minority Health Month, NDEP will also be promoting its prevention tip sheets for high-risk audiences to minority health websites.
Mark Your Calendars: NDEP Promotions
In each issue of News & Notes look for NDEP promotional tools that are ready for you to personalize, customize, and distribute.
By using our promotional tools, everybody wins. Your community newspaper receives a localized story with important health information for its readers, your organization receives good publicity, and you help NDEP continue to be the nation’s No. 1 resource for free information and materials on diabetes control and prevention. Each issue of News & Notes features tools that tie into the following month’s promotions.
May is the time to recognize Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. NDEP will promote its prevention messages through a feature article (attached) that highlights NDEP’s extensive Asian-language materials and to emphasize the diabetes epidemic within the Asian American Pacific Islander community.
June highlights National Men’s Health Week and the launch of a new NDEP branding campaign One Call. One Click. The new One Call. One Click. campaign will brand NDEP as the nation’s leading resource for free diabetes information and materials available by phone and online. NDEP will also develop media kits for the One Call. One Click. campaign to distribute to general media, health care professional media, and you — our partners! For National Men’s Health Week, NDEP will promote a feature article that emphasizes the link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease in men.
Check the May issue of News & Notes for more information about One Call. One Click. and additional tools you can use to join in future promotion efforts.
Your Child is Diagnosed with Diabetes: Parents’ Questions for the Health Care Team
Parents of children with diabetes often have concerns about the disease, its impact on their family, and how to keep their children safe and healthy. This online resource includes questions about diabetes and its management to help families talk with their health care team and to learn about their child's diabetes care needs at diagnosis and later on as well. Parents’ Questions for the Health Care Team also provides links to additional information about diabetes and children.
NDEP-NIH Director Joanne Gallivan Interviewed on NIH Radio
Joanne Gallivan, NDEP-NIH Director, recently promoted NDEP’s Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent type 2 Diabetes campaign on NIH radio. Explaining that small steps can lead to big rewards for people seeking to lose weight and avoid type 2 diabetes, the interview can be found in its entirety by clicking here.
Diabetes Voice and
NDEP
NDEP Chair Lawrence Blonde, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E. and Hager Sharp Science Writer Elizabeth Warren-Boulton, R.N., M.S.N., C.D.E. authored the article, “Translating science into practice: the US National Diabetes Education Program,” which was published in the March 2007 issue of Diabetes Voice. Explaining that the mission of NDEP is to reduce diabetes-related illness and death, the article describes that NDEP focuses on optimizing diabetes care to improve management and outcomes for all people with diabetes in the U.S. and addresses the urgent need to help prevent or delay the onset of the disease.
NDEP Referenced in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
In the March 23, 2007 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the article “Racial Differences in Trends of End-Stage Renal Disease, by Primary Diagnosis --- United States, 1994—2004” references NDEP, stating that “The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) campaign, Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes, addresses risk factors for ESRD among persons with diabetes, such as poorly controlled hyperglycemia, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. NDEP is sponsored by CDC and NIH and aims to educate the public about controlling diabetes and preventing its complications.”
The article also mentions that “In March 2006, NDEP launched the first Survey of Public Attitudes, Knowledge, and Practices Related to Diabetes, and the survey findings indicated that most people with diabetes report that they are taking steps to manage their disease; 81% check their own blood-glucose levels, 61% keep records of their blood-glucose test results, and 61% have had their hemoglobin A1c levels tested one or more times in the past year.”
Fitness Magazine and NDEP Partner to Create Online Diabetes Risk Test
For the April 2007 issue, Fitness Magazine and NDEP partnered to create an online diabetes risk test.
The “What’s Your Diabetes Risk?” quiz is adapted from the American Diabetes Association and explains that it’s important to know your risk because diabetes can lead to heart attack or stroke, blindness, kidney failure, or loss of feet or legs, especially if the disease is left untreated.
NDEP Resource Wins Outstanding NIH Plain Language Award
Nunca es muy Temprano para Prevenir la Diabetes. Pequeños Pasos de por Vida para una Familia Sana (It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes. A Lifetime of Small Steps for a Healthy Family) has been awarded an Outstanding Award from the 2006 NIH Plain Language Awards.
NIH's Plain Language Awards recognize the use of simple, easy-to-read language in government-authored documents. Congratulations NDEP!
On the Road with NDEP
NDEP is hitting the road this spring! From April 11 to 15 we’ll be exhibiting at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress in Seattle (Booth #343). NDEP will also exhibit at the American College of Physicians’ Internal Medicine 2007 from April 19 to 21 in San Diego (Booth #1805) and at the CDC Diabetes Translation Conference on April 30 to May 3 in Atlanta. Stop by and visit!
NMA’s Diabetes Education Program Launches New Website
The Diabetes Education Program of the National Medical Association (NMA) is proud to announce the launch of its new website, www.nmadiabetes.org. The aim of this website is to promote diabetes prevention and education to NMA members, their patients, and the general public. The website fully integrates many direct links to NDEP’s materials and resources. Funded by a cooperative agreement from CDC, NMA’s Diabetes Education Program addresses the disproportionate prevalence of diabetes within the African-American community and is implemented via six coalition sites to conduct diabetes outreach and education in their respective communities.
Talk to Us!
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NDEP News & Notes is the monthly e-newsletter of the National Diabetes Education Program. These monthly updates are designed to keep you informed about NDEP activities and help you identify opportunities to incorporate our messages, products, and activities into your programs. Please keep your members and partners updated by forwarding this e-newsletter to them as well. Your help continues to be an invaluable part of our success. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact our directors, Joanne Gallivan (NIH) at 301-496-6110 or Joanne_Gallivan@nih.gov, or Jane Kelly (CDC) at 770-488-5196 or JKelly@cdc.gov.
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