Experts Available to Discuss Diabetes Screening for Americans.

TOPIC: Researchers from the University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor issued a report that estimated costs incurred as a result of diabetes in the United States was $132 billion in 2002, according to an article by Reuters Health. The report shows screening adults aged 45 to 74 for type 2 diabetes every three years would cost approximately $10 billion over 15 years. The report appears in the recent issue of the journal Diabetes Care.

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story:

Mark Samuels is the founder of SpectRx, Inc., a company developing high technology medical products for diabetes monitoring and treatment. Specific products include continuous glucose monitor, insulin pump infusion sets and diabetes A1c tests.

Dr. Randall J. Urban is the professor and chief of the Endocrinology Division of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). He is also the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Distinguished Professor and Director of the Stark Foundation Diabetes Center. As Director of the Stark Diabetes Center, he is committed to the leadership, education, and research of diabetes care. Dr. Urban received his B.S. in Biochemistry and graduated from Texas A&M Medical School. He then trained in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and later in Endocrinology at the University of Virginia. Under Dr. Urban's leadership, the Stark Diabetes Center earned national recognition for meeting the American Diabetes Association's high standards for diabetes care and education. He is board certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. His clinical work through the Stark Diabetes Center involves providing state-of-the-art health care to people with diabetes, developing a diabetes education program through telehealth technology, and expanding research in diabetes into nationally recognized programs.

Dr. Mayer Davidson, of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, Clinical Trials Unit, has more than 30 years' experience in diabetes. He is a past president of the American Diabetes Association. He is the founding editor of Current Diabetes Reports, a recently launched Review Journal for diabetes. He is also the current editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, the most widely read clinical diabetes journal.

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