DIABETES
SELF-MANAGEMENT
Ingrid Strauch
Richard A. Rapaport
President and Publisher
Kathy Jones Rizzi
Associate Publisher/Advertising
Alison Clarkson
Midwest/West Advertising Director
Editorial Board
James W. Anderson, MD,
Chief, Metabolic-Endocrine Section,
VA Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky.
Danial Baker, PharmD,
Director, Drug Information Center,
Washington State University,
Spokane, Washington.
Virginia Peragallo-Dittko, APRN,
BC-ADM, MA, CDE,
Executive Director, Diabetes and Obesity
Institute, Winthrop-University Hospital,
Mineola, New York.
David E. Goldstein, MD,
Director, Pediatric Endocrinology and
Diabetes, University of Missouri Health
Science Center, Columbia, Missouri.
Laura Hieronymus, MSEd,
APRN, BC-ADM, CDE,
DiabetesCare & Communications,
Lexington, Kentucky.
Irl B. Hirsch, MD,
Medical Director, Diabetes Care Center,
University of Washington Medical Center,
Seattle, Washington.
Lois Jovanovic, MD,
Chief Scientific Officer,
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute,
Santa Barbara, California.
Daniel L. Lorber, MD,
Medical Director, Diabetes Care
and Information Center of New York,
Flushing, New York.
William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE,
Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Psychiatry,
University of California, San Diego.
Charles A. Reasner, MD,
Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology,
University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio, Texas.
Carolyn Robertson, APRN, MSN,
CS, BC-ADM, CDE,
Associate Director, New York
Diabetes Center, New York, New York.
Jeanne L. Rosenthal, MD,
Attending Surgeon, Retinal Service,
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary,
New York, New York.
Bernard P. Shagan, MD,
Director, Diabetes Education Center,
Monmouth Medical Center,
Long Branch, New Jersey.
Richard M. Weil, MEd, CDE,
Exercise Physiologist,
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center,
New York, New York.
Stephen Z. Wolner, DDS,
New York, New York.
Contributing Editors
Jean Betschart Roemer, MSN, MN,
CPNP, CDE, Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner, Children’s Hospital of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Nancy Cooper, RD, CDE,
International Diabetes Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Robert S. Dinsmoor
South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
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