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Carb DM will be using the fall 2015 Big Blue Test grant to serve two underserved populations in the Northern California area.  Asian Outreach Day is a program dedicated to the Asian community with type 1 diabetes. The program focuses on balancing type 1 diabetes and Asian cultures. The Asian Outreach Day features personal stories of people living with type 1 diabetes, a research update, understanding the benefits of exercise and type 1 diabetes and carb counting in Asian cuisine. The goal of the program is to help people from Asian cultures have a more open approach to their condition and be willing to self-advocate for themselves and their children. They also hope to help reduce the shame and mental burden of diabetes while increasing the connections among community members so they can build a network of support.

The second program that Carb DM will use the Big Blue Test grant award for will serve the Latino population in their community. Their goal with this program is to reach out to every newly diagnosed Latino family through connections at local hospitals and healthcare clinics.

These two programs are only a small fraction of Carb DM’s overall program offerings. Carb DM’s mission is to build a supportive community that improves the quality of life for people living with type 1 diabetes. They foster connections among people with diabetes, their loved ones, and medical professionals.

Now in their fifth year of operation, Carb DM offers over 80 programs a year to people of all ages and all levels of experience with type 1 diabetes. Carb DM currently serves over 1,000 families in the San Francisco Bay Area through a wide variety of programs that are geared toward people with type 1 diabetes and their caregivers.

Tamar Sofer-Geri, Carb DM Founder and Executive Director

Soon after her daughter’s diagnosis with type 1 diabetes in early 2009, Tamar Sofer-Geri realized that fellow parents of children with T1D are the true experts on managing the complexities of living with the condition. The more parents she met, talked with, and eventually mentored, the more apparent was the need for face-to-face interactions among parents, children, and families living with T1D in order to normalize their experience, share information, and get peer support. In 2011 Ms. Sofer-Geri founded Carb DM, Inc., a registered non-profit serving families and individuals living with T1D in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Prior to founding Carb DM, Ms. Sofer-Geri worked at Stanford University’s Office of Development and the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the better part of 15 years. Before moving to the US in 1996, Tamar graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in Political Science with a focus on Political Communication. She also wrote for The Jerusalem Post, at the time the only English-language daily newspaper in Israel.

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In this twitter chat, common questions about diabetes will be asked, discussed and answered by folks in the know!  Join representatives from TuDiabetes (@diabeteshf), EsTuDiabetes(@esDiabeteshf), FDA (@FDAenEsapnol), USAgov in Spanish (@GobiernoUSA), Salud Today (@SaludToday),  and USAgov in English (@USAgov), to learn, share, discuss and raise awareness about this incredibly important and increasingly common condition.  Use #YesSalud and #SaludTues to participate!

The #YesSalud bilingual campaign, a collaboration between the Diabetes Hands Foundation online communities and USAGov, aims to raise awareness about diabetes; different types, prevention and how to help loved-ones with diabetes. Every week in November we are presenting a different theme, with the goal to provide as much information and as many resources to our community as possible.  Learn more about diabetes and this campaign here, and stay up-to-date with the themes and discussion by following @diabeteshf and @SaludTues.

In addition to presenting weekly themes for folks to learn about, throughout the month of November we are collecting questions from the public, to will be discussed and answered in a live interview on TuDiabetes on December 4th!  Please submit your questions on HERE, or via twitter or facebook using #YesSalud.

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The #YesSalud bilingual campaign, a collaboration between the Diabetes Hands Foundation online communities and USAGov, aims to raise awareness about diabetes; different types, prevention and how to help loved-ones with diabetes. Every week in November we will be presenting a different theme, with the goal to provide as much information and as many resources to our community as possible.

Throughout the month of November the #YesSalud campaign has encouraged people to ask their diabetes-related questions HERE, or on twitter or facebook using #YesSalud.  We have been collecting these questions, and this live-streamed event will focus on discussing and answering them!!  Join us on December 3rd to learn what others have asked and how our experts, Lorena and Marina answer your questions.

Lorena Drago, MS, RD, CDN, CDE, is a registered dietitian, consultant and certified diabetes educator.  

Lorena specializes in the multicultural aspects of diabetes self-management education and is an expert in developing culturally and ethnically-oriented nutrition and diabetes education materials. She founded, Hispanic Foodways which received the New York City Small Business Award in 2006. She developed the Nutriportion™ Measuring Cups that has the calorie and carbohydrate amounts of common foods embossed on each cup and the Nutriportion™ Hispanic Food Cards that have pictures and nutrition composition of common Hispanic foods.

Lorena served on the American Association of Diabetes Educators board of directors from 2006-2010, Chair for Latinos and Hispanics in Dietetics and Nutrition. She was Past President of the Metropolitan New York Association of Diabetes Educators in 2004. Lorena won the Diabetic Living People’s Choice Award in 2012.

She is the author of the book Beyond Rice and Beans: The Caribbean Guide to Eating Well with Diabetes published by the American Diabetes Association. She is a contributing author and co-editor of the book Cultural Food Practices and Diabetes, published by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and print communications chair for the Diabetes Care and Education Specialty Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Lorena’s new publication, The 15-Minute Consultation Guide will be published in 2016 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Lorena has appeared on several national TV shows speaking about diabetes management.

Marina Chaparro, RDN, CDE, MPH, is a bilingual pediatric and diabetes nutrition expert. She is a certified diabetes educator at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, where she provides comprehensive diabetes education to children and families and instructs patients on the latest technology advances in diabetes care.

Chaparro is an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor trainer and is often asked to speak on topics such as childhood obesity, infant nutrition, diabetes and Latino Health issues. She is National Spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and has extensive experience providing science-based commentary to major media outlets such as The Huffington Post, Univision Media, Miami Herald and Reuter’s Health. Marina often contributes articles and story ideas to print and online communication channels where she translates nutrition science into practical every-day information for consumers. Chaparro is also the founder of Nutrichicos Children’s Nutrition Center, a bilingual nutrition center specializing in pediatric nutrition that offers individualized nutrition assessments & services in both Spanish and English.

On her blog, www.nutrichicos.com, Chaparro shares reliable, practical and science-driven recommendations to help parents and families meet the nutrition needs of their children. Marina has experience working at top diabetes institutions including Joslin Diabetes Center, Mass General Hospital and Miami Children’s Hospital. She is passionate about diabetes care since her diagnosis with type 1 Diabetes at age 17. Chaparro’s background includes clinical nutrition, public speaking, public health, research and program planning with a focus on Latino health issues. She co-created a successful nutrition and physical activity program for Hispanic adolescents and their mothers, called Healthy Chicas while working in Miami Children’s Hospital. Chaparro earned a specialty certificate in pediatric weight management. Marina is a graduate of Boston University and earned a master’s degree in public health from Florida International University.

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David Mosen, PhD, MPH

Dr. David Mosen is a health services researcher who specializes in quality of care improvements within health delivery systems. Dr. Mosen has two roles at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (CHR)in the Northwest, a nonprofit research institution dedicated to advancing knowledge to improve health.  He is the director of CHR’s Research Response Team, a facilitative body that helps Northwest Permanente physicians conduct non-funded health services research, quality improvement studies, program evaluations, and small “data-only” studies. He is also a Senior Program Evaluation Consultant and Affiliate Investigator with CHR. In this role, he conducts quality improvement studies in the areas of:

• Understanding the effectiveness of care management programs delivered in Kaiser Permanente
• Examining the medical health benefits of medical/dental integration
• Improving glycemic control for adults with diabetes.

In addition, he studies characteristics of providers and health systems associated with quality of care measures and health outcomes, such as improving early cancer detection and disease prevention screening efforts and patient activation. The core of Dr. Mosen’s work is harnessing the great analytic and evaluation assets CHR has to provide practice answers for care delivery in Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Permanente Northwest.

Karen Smith Mularski, MD

Dr Mularski is board certified in Internal Medicine with a focused practice in Hospital Medicine. She received her B.S. in Physiology from the University of California, Davis and her M.D. from the University of California, San Diego. She completed training in Internal Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and is a Hospitalist and Senior Physician withNorthwest Permanente; since 2009 she has been the Lead Physician for the Regional Inpatient Glycemic Control Program for the Northwest Region. Dr. Mularski was a national collaborator in the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) Glycemic Control Initiative, has presented her work at the SHM’s annual meeting, and was recognized by her peers in 2012 as one of Portland’s Top Doctors. She lives in Portland with her husband, a pulmonary/critical care physician also with Northwest Permanente and her two children and enjoys running, biking, yoga, outdoor adventures, raising backyard chickens, and exploring Portland’s amazing and quirky food and wine scene.

Betty Young, MS, RPh

Betty Young earned both her BS and MS degrees in Pharmacy from  Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.  She completed her pharmacy residency at Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.  She has held both clinical pharmacist and management positions.  Her career began in Tucson, Arizona at Tucson Medical Center and Rehab Institute of Tucson.  In 1993, she returned to Oregon,  continuing her career at Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Oregon.  She has been on the Glycemic Control Team since 2009 and currently is the lead glycemic pharmacist