Driscoll Children's Hospital HOSTS
2003 INTERNATIONAL Diabesity symposium

2^nd Biennial Conference on Diabesity in Children and the Family
For Healthcare professionals
Saturday & Sunday; September 20 - 21, 2003
7 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. – 12 noon
Renaissance Casa de Palmas Hotel l McAllen, TX
Pre-registration is required l Call (361) 694-4117 for more information

(Corpus Christi, TX)  This two-day symposium is designed to provide pediatricians, family practitioners, internists, endocrinologists, resident physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants with a comprehensive review of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents.  Nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, exercise physiologists and social workers involved in the multi-disciplinary approach to care of diabetes will also directly benefit from attendance to this program.

The Diabesity Conference objectives will provide state of the art clinical information on the epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents. It will improve understanding of current controversies in the early detection and prevention of type 2 diabetes in children. It will also increase the participant's knowledge of obesity prevention and management in children and adolescents through lectures, case studies, and Interactive Group Response System.

Driscoll Children's Hospital is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Diabesity: The Family Disease

• Diabetes, Dislipidemias, Hypertension and the Cardiovascular Link

• Pathophysiology and Management of type 2 Diabetes to Prevent Complications

• Medical Nutrition Management and the Family With type 2 Diabetes

• When Science, Medicine, and Culture Collide: Diabetes and South Texas

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Happy 50th birthday! Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 200-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. The facility’s referral area spans 31,000 square miles, making it larger than the state of South Carolina, and offers care to children throughout the Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Valley. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care. The first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children, Driscoll provides emergency care to more than 40,000 children per year. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a renowned pediatric intensive care program.

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