An astounding one in ten Americans have diabetes – a condition characterized by abnormally high levels of sugar in the blood. The complications associated with diabetes can be devastating but there is a lot you can do to prevent diabetes as well as manage the disease if it already exists.
Join our Northwell Health specialists as they discuss how to live your best life with diabetes.
This webinar was originally recorded on November 3, 2022. For more information or additional questions please email womenshealth@northwell.edu.
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Emilia Liao
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Dr. Liao is an associate professor of medicine and is the program director for the endocrinology fellowship at Lenox Hill Hospital. She has participated in multiple diabetes clinical trials and has authored on various endocrine topics including diabetes, hypoparathyroidism, osteoporosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Rutgers NJ Medical School in Newark, NJ and endocrinology fellowship at Mount Sinai. She graduated medical school from Albany Medical College, following undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Julie Zaidan
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Dr. Zaidan Is an Assistant Professor in medicine at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and a practicing Endocrinologist in Staten Island. She earned her medical degree from the Lebanese University Faculty of medical science in Beirut Lebanon. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Staten Island University hospital where She also served as Chief Resident for one year. She completed her fellowship training in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson, in New Brunswick. After fellowship, Dr Zaidan began her career as a clinical practitioner in endocrinology at Staten Island, part of the Northwell team.