SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 19, 2008)—Health care professionals and workers in related fields are invited to attend the 29th Annual Conference on Aging this Friday (Aug. 22) at the Hilton San Antonio Airport hotel, 611 N.W. Loop 410 in San Antonio.
The theme is “Current Perspectives and New Horizons in Diabetes Management.” The event is presented by the UT Health Science Center San Antonio’s South Texas Geriatric Education Center; the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System; and Veterans Integrated Service Network 17.
The keynote speaker, William Duckworth, M.D., from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Phoenix, Ariz., will discuss glucose control and cardiovascular disease prevention, including results of the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial. That large research study, not yet published, is comparing the effect of intensive versus standard glycemic control on cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Another speaker is Michael Parchman, M.D., a UT Health Science Center faculty member and director of the VERDICT Research Program of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, who will discuss implications of the chronic care model for diabetes in the elderly.
For more information, contact Natalie Wright at (210) 567-7439 or wrightn@uthscsa.edu. Conference brochures and registration information are online at www.sagrecc.org.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is the leading research institution in South Texas and one of the major health sciences universities in the world. With an operating budget of $576 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for the $15.3 billion biosciences and health care sector in San Antonio’s economy. The Health Science Center has had an estimated $35 billion impact on the region since inception and has expanded to six campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 23,000 graduates (physicians, dentists, nurses, scientists and allied health professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. Health Science Center faculty are international leaders in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevention, kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain management, genetics, nursing, allied health, dentistry and many other fields. For more information, visit www.uthscsa.edu.