Taking Control Of Your Diabetes

Ingrid Kruse, DPM
Podiatrist, Clinical Instructor, Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, UCSD School of Medicine Staff, VA Medical Center San Diego

Dr. Ingrid Kruse is a Podiatrist and Clinical Instructor at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego. After attending college at Monmouth University in New Jersey, and the University of Munster, in West Germany, she completed her DPM at the Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago. She then completed an internship at the Joslin Clinic in Boston, where she met Steven Edelman, TCOYD Founder and Director.

Dr. Kruse has been a TCOYD faculty member since the very beginning, speaking at over 50 of TCOYD's now 100+ conferences. She had recieved numerous awards in her field, including most recently, the Teacher-of-the-Year Award for the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic in 2002, the Peoples Choice Award 2005 for the PI-Project: Improving Screening for Peripheral neuropathy in Patients with Diabetes mellitus, and the Community Leader Award for being a Role Model in Underserved Medicine, from the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic in 2007.

She is a member of both the American Podiatric Medical Association and the American Diabetes Association, and has published numerous articles in professional journals including Clinical Diabetes. In addition, she has appeared in TCOYD TV shows and written chapters on managing foot neuropathy for the Taking Control of Your Diabetes 3 editions.

TCOYD Series Television

Be Sweet to Your Feet

TCOYD News Articles

Nail Care 101

Ingrid Kruse, DPM
TCOYD Newsletter, Vol. 26, 2008

Atask as mundane as cutting your toenails can pose a problem for some people, whether or not they have diabetes. If you have visual impairment (from retinopathy or another cause); or disabling arthritis in your hips or knees preventing you from reaching your toes; or poor circulation; or simply a midsection large enough to interfere with your ability to reach your toes, cutting your nails can be a challenge! Also, if you have some nerve damage from diabetes (peripheral neuropathy), and your feet are numb as a result of that, then it is really not a good idea to cut your own nails due to the chance of unknowingly injuring yourself. In all these above scenarios, it is much safer to seek professional help.