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Dr. Francine Kaufman discusses diabetes prevention and treatment. Dr. Kaufman is currrently leading two NIH diabetes investigations, both focusing on preventing and treating type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers. She discusses how people can modify their lifestyles and make a real shift to healthy behaviors.

In addition, Dr. Kaufman discusses the impact of diabetes in ethnic populations and lower socioeconomic groups, and how to enroll communities in prevention programs and behavioral change.

Dr. Francine Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Communications at the Keck School of Medicine and the Annenberg School of Communications of USC, and Head of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Dr. Kaufman has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1980, and is the current Chair of the National Diabetes Education Program, which is jointly sponsored by the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Kaufman has published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, as well as more than 200 articles and abstracts. She is the author of more than 30 books and book chapters, including the best-selling book, Diabesity.

In November 2008, Dr. Kaufman joined Medtronic as Vice President of Global Medical Affairs for the diabetes business.

Technorati Tags: A1C test, chronic disease, diabetes, juvenile diabetes, Lifestyle Medicine

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Dr. Davis Liu discusses the prevention and treatment of chronic disease using lifestyle medicine. He describes how to get the most out of your doctor visits, as well as important action steps to get healthy and stay healthy.

Also, Dr. Liu discusses U.S. health care policy, addressing issues of access, affordability, and medical outcomes.

Dr. Liu is a board-certified family physician. Since 2005, he has been practicing with the Permanente Medical Group, the nation’s largest with over 6000 physicians. He is the author of Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely: Making Intelligent Choices in America’s Healthcare System.

Dr. Liu’s blog is located here.

Technorati Tags: cancer prevention, health care policy, heart disease prevention, Lifestyle Medicine

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Geri Jenkins

Geri Jenkins, Co-President of the California Nurses Association, discusses Single Payer / Medicare for All – An Economic Stimulus Plan for the Nation. Ms. Jenkins describes how a single-payer system would create 2.8 million jobs and more than $300 billion in new revenues to the U.S. econnomy. A single-payer system would provide health insurance to all Americans, including children as well as families below the poverty line.

The California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Committee is the nation’s largest union of Registered Nurses. CNA was the driving force behind California’s law guaranteeing a safe ratio of nurses to patients on every unit, a law that has saved thousands of lives and helped ease the state’s nursing shortage by drawing RNs back into critical-care settings. CNA is also the nation’s leading proponent of guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model, which proposes expanding Medicare to cover all Americans.

Technorati Tags: chronic disease, health care, HR676, Medicare, single-payer system, universal health care

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Dr. Ana Malinow

Dr. Malinow is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and full-time faculty at the Ben Taub General Hospital Pediatric Emergency and Ambulatory Center, located in Houston, TX. Dr. Malinow’s experiences with the underserved in Cleveland and Houston motivated her in 2002 to co-found Health Care for All Texas, and to promote single-payer universal health care through education and policy setting.

Dr. Malinow has been a guest speaker on health care reform in local and national lectures, and has been featured on multiple television and radio programs. She is the author of numerous Op-Ed articles and is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. Physicians for a National Health Program has more than 15,000 members and chapters across the United States.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, pharmaceutical industry, single-payer system, universal health care

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Dr. Thomas Royer

Dr. Thomas Royer is the President and CEO of CHRISTUS Health systems. Dr. Royer leads day-to-day operations for CHRISTUS Health and lends extensive expertise in developing physician partnerships and community health programs. For three years in a row, he has been named one of the top 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare by Modern Physician Magazine. Dr. Royer is a board-certified surgeon. His passion for patients and over 40 years of experience have made him a sought-after speaker, writer, and expert on the health care industry.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, prevention, universal health care, wellness

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Dr. Robert Field

Dr. Robert Field is Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Public Health at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. His expertise extends into healthcare law and regulation, health system planning and development, and health policy analysis. Dr. Field recently published a book, Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation, and Compromise, which gives a comprehensive overview of the healthcare system in the United States.

He has conducted health policy research at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Law and Health Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Field is a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the adjunct faculty of the Wharton School.

Technorati Tags: health care policy, Medicare, pharmaceuticals, universal health care

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Dr. David Katz

Dr. Katz has launched Nutrition Detectives, an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is “Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices”. He has also recently launched Nuval, a nutritional scoring system, that helps consumers see – at a glance – the nutritional value of the food they buy.

Dr. Katz is an internationally recognized authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease. He is Associate Professor in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Medicine and Director and founder of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. He is currently the nutrition columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine and a health columnist for the New York Times Syndicate.

Dr. Katz has twice been recognized by the Consumers Research Council of America as one of America’s top physicians in Preventive Medicine and has won numerous awards for his teaching and his contributions to public health.

Technorati Tags: diabetes, Nutrition, nuval, obesity

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Dr. Pauline Rosenau

Dr. Pauline Rosenau is Professor of Management, Policy, and Community Health at the University of Texas–Houston School of Public Health. She is the author of The Competition Paradigm: America’s Romance with Conflict, Contest, and Commerce, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2003.

Dr. Rosenau edited Public/Private Policy Partnerships, published by MIT University Press in 2000 and Health Reform in the Nineties, published by SAGE Publications in 1994. Her books have received Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Books Awards in 1992 and 1994. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in many prestigious journals, including Social Work in Public Health, Journal of Health Politics, and Medical Care Review.

Technorati Tags: health care reform, U.S. Health Care, universal health care