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DESA 2008 International
Conference
July 17-20, 2008
Toronto, Canada
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Late
Breaking Update!
"Meet
& Train with the Olympians"
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| Missy Foy and Friends
will conduct informal workout & coaching sessions as an
added program activity during the Conference. |
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| Missy's Friends include
some of the most elite Athletes you would ever like to meet: |
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--Josianne Aboungono:
2008 Olympian-Marathoner
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| --Curt Clausen: three
time US Olympian-Race Walker |
| --Jackie Carter: 800 meters,
All American & 800 meters record holder, Univ of Notre Dame
-and Type 1 DM |
| --Tania Jones: Canadian
multiple world title holder-Marathoner |
| --Anne Riddle-Lundblad:
2005 Silver Medalist, 100K World Championships |
| --Mark Lundblad: US 50-mile
National Champion, 2007-Ultramarathoner |
| --Norm Olgilvie:
Head Coach, Duke Track & Field, former Olympic Trials 5,000
meter runner |
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--Ken Royds; World Class distance coach
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The list of Friends will
be updated as more commitments are received. Missy plans
an early morning easy run, special lunch for participants, and an
evening track workout.
Open to all Conference
registrants regardless
of ability, for an activity fee of $25 paid upon signup at the registration
desk.
Registration Now Open
Conference Program and Registration
Form-click
here
Registration Options:
a) Print a copy of the Registration
Form & Fax or Mail it to DESA
or
b) Register Online by clicking
here.
CAll for Applications
2008 DESA Athletic Achievement
Awards & Lew Harper Memorial Youth Award
Applications
are now being received though May 1, 2008
Program
information here
Sisterhood of Diabetes-
a special issue of the DESA
Challenge Newletter..now
online
--Inspiring accounts of how
Exercise For Life changes lives
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Doug Dressman Joins
DESA as Executive Director
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"I am excited about this opportunity to serve as the Executive
Director of DESA. We have unbelievable potential to serve
people with diabetes by showing them not only the role that
exercise and physical fitness plays in managing their disease,
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Doug Dressman is a Cincinnati
native who started his non-profit career with Junior Achievement
of Greater Cincinnati. After four years with JA, Doug moved
on to the Arthritis Foundation's Southwest Ohio Chapter and
served as Development Director for four years before moving
to Louisville where he lives with his wife Lorie and their
two children, Nick, 21 and Lindsey 17.
In Louisville he worked as Executive
Director of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Diabetes
Association for 7 ½ years before joining the Southern Region
Staff as Community Development Vice President. Two years later
he joined ADA's national office staff as the National Director,
Priority Special Events, in the Field Campaign Department.
After 12 years service with ADA he joined the National MS
Society in March 2004. Doug spent 3 ½ years as the Kentucky
Chapter President, National MS Society. In addition he served
on the Chapter President's Council and Shared Services Advisory
Council during his tenure.
Both Doug and his wife Lorie have
Type 2 diabetes and value the role of exercise, physical fitness,
and nutrition in treating and managing diabetes. His passion
is soccer and he referees high school and club soccer matches.
Doug's son Nick plays soccer at Northern Kentucky University.
Lindsey, his daughter, is a high school cheerleader in Goshen,
Kentucky.
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New Members of the DESA Board of Directors
DESA is pleased
to announce that the folowing new Board Members were installed at
the annual meeting in Colorado, June 29, 2007. Each will serve a
term of three years.
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Charles Renfroe
is Director of Professional
Alliances and Patient Advocacy at LifeScan, Inc., a Johnson and
Johnson company. He is responsible for professional and patient
relations and corporate contributions to diabetes organizations
and patient advocacy groups in the United States. He sits on about
10 industry advisory groups for diabetes associations and is also
on the Board of Directors for the Diabetes Education and Camping
Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Silicon
Valley Branch, as well as the camping committee of the Diabetes
Society of Santa Clara Valley in California. He has received numerous
awards and recognitions for his work in diabetes, including those
presented by the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association and Children With Diabetes. A long-time contributor
to DESA, LifeScan, under Charles's direction, has supported the
DESA Athletic Achievement Awards for 10 years, and regularly provides
operational grants to support our work. Wnen Charles gets a chance
to step away from work, he enjoys reading, writing, appreciating
art in all forms and hiking/biking the trails of Northern California.
Missy Foy recently
joined the Board of Directors at DESA. Missy has had Type 1 diabetes
for ten years and has had a successful running career for much of
those ten years. She was named the North Carolina Runner of the
Year twice, spent two years as one of the USA Track and Field Association's
Olympic Development athletes, was awarded the Life Scan International
Athletic Achievement Award, became the first diabetic athlete in
history to qualify for and run in the Olympic Marathon Trials, and,
in 2005, achieved a top ten world ranking for a 50 mile ultra-marathon
(with a #1 ranking for a 50 mile trail race). Missy has also worked
in medical research for the last fifteen years with the Durham,
NC VA Medical Center and with Duke University. Currently, she is
also completing work on her PhD with a research focus on the history
of diabetes care and health outcomes. Missy hopes that her work
on the Board of Directors will help DESA achieve goals of expanding
its connections with a growing diabetes community, enhancing the
experiences of DESA's members, and creating new and innovative ways
to provide information on exercise and sports participation for
people with diabetes. Missy is an active participant on DESA's electronic
bulletin boards and hopes that members will continue to offer opinions
and ask questions of Missy and other Board members through the bulletin
boards.
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Sheri Colberg-Ochs,
Ph.D., FACSM, is an exercise physiologist and associate professor
of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Having earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University
and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, she specializes
in research on diabetes and exercise. She continues to conduct extensive
clinical research specifically in diabetes and exercise with funding
from the American Diabetes Association and others. Dr. Colberg-Ochs
is the author of five (and counting) books: "The Diabetic Athlete"
(2001), "Diabetes-Free Kids" (2005), "The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness
Plan (2006), "50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes"
(Nov. 2007), and "The Science of Staying Young" (Dec. 2007). A second
edition of "The Diabetic Athlete" will also be published in November
of 2008. In addition to her books, she has authored well over 100
research and educational articles on exercise, diabetes, fitness,
nutrition, and healthy lifestyles. An avid recreational exerciser,
she has almost 40 years of personal experience as a type 1 diabetic
athlete.When not busy writing, teaching, and researching, she spends
time with her three boys (Alex, 13; Anton, 11, and RayJ, 8) and
husband, Ray Ochs. Despite splitting her time among three boys involved
in soccer, swimming, martial arts, and other activities, she manages
to find time to exercise nearly daily herself, mainly just staying
in shape at this point! Her favorite exercise is still swimming,
but she also enjoys weight training, conditioning machines, cycling,
and taking long walks with her husband without the kids.
Dr. Diana Berger
is the Medical Director of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). She
is on faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Division
of General and Preventive Medicine. She completed a Preventive Medicine
Residency with a Masters of Science in Community Medicine at Mount
Sinai and a Research Fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center. She
attended Dartmouth Medical School ('96) and Dartmouth College ('90).
Her interests in diabetes include the emerging epidemic of type
2 diabetes in children, diabetes camping, diabetes registries, physical
activity and healthy eating for diabetes prevention, insulin pump
therapy, and exercise and sports for people with diabetes.
"Diabetic and Determined" by Abby
Ellin
See
this excellent article by Feature
Editor, Abby Ellin, in the July 26,2007 edition of the New York
Times.
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