DRSI HEALTHCARE ADVISORY BOARD

DRSI has joined with leading-edge healthcare thought leaders to develop and implement national diabetes education and awareness outreach programs. Our objective is to help diabetics manage their disease-state, and to help pre-diabetics delay or avoid the onset of diabetes. This board’s insights, opinions, and experience will help ensure that DRSI effectively implements educational and awareness outreach programs that will help manage the effects, and control the growing expenses associated with diabetes.

Dr. Richard Corlin, who has accepted the position of Chairman of the Advisory Board, brings an enormous legacy of achievements in gastroenterology. He served as past President of the American Medical Association and was also a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Corlin has devoted much of his energy and efforts to healthcare reform, and is a practicing specialist who is invited to speak worldwide about critical healthcare issues.

Dr. D. Walter Cohen has spearheaded groundbreaking advancements in periodontics and the treatment of diabetes. As a prominent member of the scientific community, he has published 22 books and more than 130 articles. He is currently Dean-Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and Chancellor-Emeritus of the Drexel University College of Medicine.

Joyce Malaskovitz PhD., R.N., C.D.E., serves as Director of the Health & Wellness Services and Diabetes Treatment Center at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was also the Executive Director of Lifestyle Decisions, a diabetes and cardiac management program, and she has been awarded the American Diabetes Association “Making A Difference” Award.

Dr. Andrea Pennington is a respected Integrative Medicine specialist, author and leading authority on wellness and prevention.  Through books and other media she has authored, her high profile advocacy empowers people to help make their lives Diabetes Proof. Dr. Penningtonhas earned multiple media appearances on programs including Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Today Show, CNN, and Fox News Channel.

Dr. Katja Van Herle has distinguished herself as the Chief of Endocrinology and the Chair of the Diabetes Task Force at UCLA. She is a professor of Medicine and Director of Community Health Education for the Scripps Research Institute and the Founder of a National Corporate Consortium that seeks to affect change for dysmetabolic diseases including diabetes. She is also the president and CEO of “The All Greater Good Foundation” which focuses on education and outreach programs for public health issues and funds basic science research.