Bio
Specialties:
- Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism
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Location:
- Las Vegas, NM
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Credentials
- Education
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Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 1990 - 1991Associate of Applied Science, Aims College, 1982 - 1984
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- Professional Membership or Societies
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Association of Health Care JournalistsNational Writers UnionNational Association of Science WritersRIOS NetNew Mexico Health Care Takes on DiabetesNew Mexico Diabetes Advisory CouncilNational Society of Newspaper Columnists
- Honors or Awards
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Winner Next Generation Indie Book Awards Medal, Health/Wellness Finalist, 2009Winner National Indie Excellence Awards, Health Book Finalist, 2009Winner USA Book News National Best Books Awards, General Health Category Finalist, 2009Winner International Book Awards, Health Book Category Finalist, 2010Winner Next Generation Indie Book Awards Medal, Health/Wellness Finalist, 2011Winner National Indie Excellence Awards, Disease Book Finalist, 2011Winner National Indie Excellence Awards, Specialty Book Finalist, 2011NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner in the How To category, Summer 2011Winner Eric Hoffer Award, Reference Book Category Honorable Mention, 2011Bronze Medal Winner Reader's Favorite Awards in the Medical/Health Category, 2011Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Awards Health Book award, 2011Winner 8th Annual USA Best Books Awards, Medical Reference Category Finalist, 2011Winner 8th Annual USA Best Books Awards, General Health Category Finalist, 2011NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner in the Health category, Fall 2011
- Publications
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Beyond Fingersticks: the art of control with Continuous Glucose Monitoring, With a foreword by Howard Zisser, MD.Domar al Tigre: tu primer año con diabetes.Taming the Tiger: your first year with diabetes.The Born Again Diabetic, the handbook to help you get your diabetes in control (again), With a foreword by Kathleen Colleran, MD.
Activity
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Does gestational diabetes lead to full-blown diabetes?
Gestational diabetes is very poorly named. We should call it preview diabetes. Consider this: Diabetes strikes about one in ten people right now. But it strikes one in four women who ...
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How can I quit smoking?
Nicotine gum and patches, as well as other medications, can help. But in reality, it's not the body that gives us the hard time when it comes to kicking the habit. It only takes a couple of day...
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What can I do to help avoid complications from diabetes?
The first and best thing you do to help avoid complications from diabetes, is to keep your blood sugar down. Next, every year, without fail, no matter how good your A1C, no matter how good your bl...
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What are sulfonylurea drugs?
Sulfonylurea is a class of oral diabetes medications for type-2 diabetics that stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin. Once widely used, they are now falling out of favor due to the fact t...
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What is a red blood cell (RBC)?
Red blood cells (RBCs) are FedEx trucks. They are highly specialized cells whose job is to deliver oxygen from the lungs to every cell in your body and to pick up packages of carbon dioxide to take...
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What are the benefits of exercise for people with diabetes?
Exercise is good for your diabetes because it makes sugar move out of your blood. It also helps your heart, your brain, your lungs, and your muscles all feel better and perform better. You don'...
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What is type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes (T-1) is an autoimmune disorder. The body’s immune system attacks and kills off the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas (the small ugly-looking organ that hides behin...
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What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
So here’s the way I like to think about it: Everything thing you eat is converted into glucose by your digestive system and dumped into your bloodstream. To get the glucose from the blood in...
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What causes diabetic foot problems?
Scary but true story: a man with diabetes came home from work super-tired one day and decided to grab a quick nap. He sat down on his couch, took his shoes off, slipped his glasses into one of the ...
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What is gestational diabetes?
If you are a man this won’t happen to you. Gestational diabetes is often viewed as a “temporary” diabetes that strikes some pregnant women. Actually it’ll hit more than 4 pe...
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Does diabetes increase my risk of a heart attack?
Having diabetes makes it much more likely that you'll have a heart attack. There's not much you can do about that, though the better you control your blood sugar, the less your risk.
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How can I keep my kidneys healthy if I have diabetes?
Most diabetics know that high blood sugar will totally trash our kidneys in time. What many of us don’t know, or tend to forget, is that high blood pressure is even more damaging. Kidney&rsq...
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What are the different types of diabetes?
In a nutshell, diabetes is a variety of conditions that make it hard for your body to deal with sugar. There are four types of diabetes. In the medical world we define them as: Type 1 diabetes&m...
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How is insulin related to blood sugar?
In two words: inversely proportional. Picture insulin and blood sugar like two children on a teeter-totter on a playground. By moving forward or backwards on the balance beam, the two children can ...
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How can poor control of my diabetes harm my health?
In addition to possibly damaging your eyes, your kidneys, and your feet, sloppy control of your diabetes increases your risk for heart attacks and strokes, either one of which will absolutely ruin ...
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