Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models. Dr. Betsy Dokken has training and degrees in nursing. Her Ph.D. is in experimental diabetes in rats working on insulin resistance. Her postdoctoral fellowship was at the applied Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratories in the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center. She studied ischemia-reperfusion injury in diabetic hearts. Betsy is a certified diabetic educator and registered nurse. Dr. Dokken is an adjunct clinical assistant professor of nursing. Her principal appointment is in the section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension with 20% of her time spent on clinical practice (diabetes, obesity, and related disorders). She has published 7 review chapters, 13 peer reviewed chapters and 10 journal articles relating to CVD and diabetes. Her grants and research focus on diabetic heart disease. Betsy has been extensively involved in nursing and diabetes societies in Arizona and nationally.

• 1: Early origins of health and disease 2: Diabetes and obesity: The impact of their coincidence on health and life 3: Diabetes:  A new horizon and approach to management4: Psychosocial Factors Associated with Diabetes Self-Management 5: The relationship between the organization of services for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and the risk of long-term complications 6: Effects of Bariatric surgery on co-morbid conditions associated with morbid obesity 7: Dietary and  management of type 2 diabetes 8: Insulin Resistance and Inflammation, Links between Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease 9: Cardiovascular risk assessment in prediabetes: A hypothesis10: Pre-diabetes, cardiovascular risk factors, arterial stiffness-ADMA 11: Effect of fiber and low glycemic load diet on blood glucose profile and cardiovascular risk factors in diabetes and poorly-controlled diabetic subjects 12: Glucose uptake and its consequence on cardiomyocyte function 13: Hypertension and Dyslipidemia in patients with prediabetes: dietary and other therapies? 14: Animal Models of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy 15: 4-Hydroxyisoleucine-Potential antidiabetic agent from Trigonella foenum graecum 16: mHealth Technologies in Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes Care17: Fruit and glycemic control in type 2 diabetes18: Antihyperglycemic activity of bioactive compounds from soybeans 19: Myoinositol supplementation on insulin resistance in gestational diabetes20: The Tibetan herbal preparation Padma 28 (Padma basic) in treatment and prevention of diabetic complications and atherosclerosis 21: Cardiovascular Biomarker Assessment Across Glycemic Status 22: The transcultural diabetes nutritional algorithm (tDNA): from concept to implementation 23: Microcirculation: a key effector in insulin resistance24: Glucose intake and utilization in pre-diabetes and diabetes:  Tomato and diabetes  25: Optimal  carbohydrate and nutrient intake for Japanese elderly patients with type 2 diabetes 26: Mediterranean diet for  prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes      27: Role of food and supplements in health of dialysis patients 28: Bioactive compounds increased incretins with beneficial effects on diabetes 29: Exercise and diet improve cardiometabolic risk in overweight and obese individuals without weight loss 30: Protein in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus 31: Nutritional support in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus 32: Amino acids supplementation as nutritional therapy

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