Healthy Living with Diabetes: A Forum for South Asian Women

Healthy Living with Diabetes: A Forum for South Asian Women

Join DiabetesSisters, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, and Rutgers Medical School to hear expert speakers, connect with local resources, and learn more about ways to live victoriously and healthfully with diabetes or prediabetes. Find out about a new peer support group that is starting in the central Jersey area called Part of DiabetesSisters (PODS). Light refreshments will be served.

Speakers include:

  • Shanti Narra, Chair, Health Committee, Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders
  • Sarah Mart, MS, MPH, DiabetesSisters
  • Sunanda Gaur, MD, South Asian Total Health Initiative (SATHI)
  • Reema Patel, MD, Joslin Diabetes Center/Raritan Bay Medical Center
  • Gloria Bachmann, MD, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Women's Health
  • Marlene Spina, RN, CDE, Barnabas Health
  • Anjana Divakaran, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  • Barbara Ortiz, American Diabetes Association, New Jersey Affiliate
  • Nurgul Fitzgerald, PhD, RDN
  • Carli Terrault, Wellness Coordinator, RWJ Wellness & Fitness Center
  • Shailja Mathur, MS, MEd, RDN, Rutgers Cooperative Extension & FCHS, SATHI


Local Resources:

  • DiabetesSisters/PODS Meetup
  • South Asian Total Health Initiative
  • Rutgers Institute for Women's Health
  • American Diabetes Association, New Jersey affiliate
  • RWJ Wellness Center, Old Bridge/New Brunswick

Register at: https://healthylivingdiabetessouthasianwomen.eventbrite.com

Event Location: 
Old Bridge Public Library, Old Bridge, NJ
DiabetesSisters Events
Event Email: 
info@diabetessisters.org
Event Date: 
November 18, 2017 / 11:00am to 2:00pm