| Preliminary Program subject to change | ||
| Desperately Seeking Insulin - Diabetes, Nutrition, and Exercise Connections | ||
| Structure | Medical/Healthcare | |
| Description | Diabetes - its impact, prevention and management - will be explored through role play, labs, simple tools, and discussions. Participants: 1) don the roles of glucose, insulin, body cells and organs in the play, "Desperately Seeking Insulin," introducing basic concepts (glucose metabolism, types); 2) explore the affect of blood sugar on body cells in the hand's-on lab revealing the role of sugar concentrations on osmotic movement in causing diabetic symptoms; 3) make a simple tool to detect foot neuropathy and view the video, "An Ounce of Prevention;" 4) discover anthropological connections to differences in diabetes distribution among ethnic groups (diets, migration, lifestyle). | |
| Presider: | Lin Wang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | |
| Speakers: | Linda A. Pruski, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX Cheryl Blalock, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX | |