Diabetes Spectrum
20:140
2007
DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.20.3.140
© 2007 by the American Diabetes Association
Marion J. Franz, MS, RD, LD, CDE, is a nutrition/health consultant with
Nutrition Concepts by Franz, Inc., in Minneapolis, Minn. For more than 20
years, she was the Director of Nutrition and Health Professional Education at
the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis. She was an author for the
American Diabetes Association (ADA) 1986, 1994, 2002, and 2006 nutrition
recommendations and was editor of the American Association for Diabetes
Educators Core Curriculum for Diabetes 4th and 5th editions. She is a
frequent contributor to journals and text books and lectures frequently in the
United States and internationally. Ms. Franz has received numerous awards,
including the 2001 ADA Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the
Cause of Diabetes and the 2006 American Dietetic Association Medallion
Award.
Betsy B. Dokken, PhD, NP, CDE, received a bachelor of science degree in
nursing from Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn., a master of science
degree in adult health nursing from Arizona State University in Tempe, and a
doctorate in physiological sciences from the University of Arizona in Tuscon.
She maintains a clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in the Department of
Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, providing
health care to patients with diabetes and related disorders. In addition, she
is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Surgery, Sarver Heart Center, at
the University of Arizona in Tuscon. Dr. Dokken's research interests include
glucose metabolism in the heart and skeletal muscle, insulin signal
transduction, and decreasing ischemia-reperfusion injury in the diabetic
heart.
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