Nov. 17 Public Health Forum: Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program
Join Sherry Pagoto as she presents the talk “Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program in Clinical and Community Settings: Triumphs and Challenges” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, November 17 at noon.
The Diabetes Prevention Program was a major multicenter clinical research study completed in 2002 that found weight loss through dietary changes and increased physical activity or treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin could prevent or delay the onset of type-2 diabetes in study participants.
In her lecture, Pagoto will discuss the challenges of translating the Diabetes Prevention Program for clinical and community settings, as well as the outcomes and applicability of intensive lifestyle interventions in special populations. Implications for future translational work involving intensive lifestyle interventions will be explored.
Pagoto, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her research interests include lifestyle interventions; psychiatric co-morbidities of obesity, type-2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome; Behavioral Activation treatment of depression; skin cancer prevention; and the translation of research into practice.
The BUSPH Public Health Forum is a regular series presented by the School of Public Health. It is free and open to the public.
BUSPH Public Health Forum
Date: November 17, 2010
Time: 12 – 1 p.m.
Location: BUSM Instructional Building, Room L-112
Contact: Diane Beliveau