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Nov 22-23, 2018 | Paris, France

Joint Event

Nutrition and Health

International Conference on

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Journal of Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism | Volume 2

Providing culturally sensitive diabetes education & care for the LGBTQ community

Theresa Garnero

UCSF School of Nursing, USA

Learn why sexual minority status is an invisible diabetes

disparity and what you can do to about it in your practice.

Objectives:

• Define the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or

questioning (LGBTQ) sexual minority and related terms

• Describe unique LGBT risk factors for diabetes and

prevalence assumptions (no “Q” here due to lack of data)

• Assess how your clinical practice demonstrates cultural

sensitivity to this high-risk population

• Gain insights from2 couples who share their diabetes story

Speaker Biography

Theresa Garnero, APRN, BC-ADM, MSN, CDE is an award-winning diabetes nurse educator

and thought leader who understands diabetes from several perspectives. She trailblazed

several innovations in the field of diabetes from using therapeutic humor to facilitate

self-care behaviors, to creating a community-based dance program to prevent and

manage diabetes, to discovering the impact of diabetes within the sexual minority group

and providing cultural sensitivity training for diabetes professionals for this underserved

population, and to designing technology to better meet the needs of people with diabetes.

She is a prolific writer and cartoonist. Garnero was awarded the national Diabetes Educator

of the Year by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (2004) and the international

“Inspired by Diabetes” award (2008). She reviews manuscripts for diabetes-related science

journals, including The Diabetes Educator and The Diabetes Spectrum. Her latest efforts

are aimed at preventing diabetes by founding the soon to launch Sweet People Club. She

is most proud of being the curriculum designer for UCSF’s online diabetes certificate CME

program.