Featuring Tony Award Winner Ben Vereen and Racecar Driver Charlie Kimball, Both Living Well With Diabetes

Listen up New Orleans: This is an event you don’t want to miss if you or a loved one is living with diabetes!

Did you know that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked the state of Louisiana among the 10 states with the highest prevalence of diabetes with approximately 10% of residents being diagnosed with diabetes by a physician? For 2007, the state estimates the dollar cost of diabetes to be $2.4 billion!

In an effort to counter this statewide epidemic and put patients in control, TCOYD will hold its critically acclaimed conference for people living with diabetes on May 8th from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Pontchartrain Center in New Orleans. The TCOYD conference, lunch and health fair will bring national and local medical experts in diabetes care to people living with for a day of highly informative and enlightening programs. 

At this TCOYD conference, leading specialists such as Dr. Steven Edelman, internationally recognized leader in diabetes treatment and Founder and Director of TCOYD, Lawrence Blonde, MD, FACP, FACE of Ochsner Health, conference co-director Dr. Vivian Fonseca of Tulane University and other medical professionals from across the country will offer an event that provides practical advice to those living with the disease, discusses the new and exciting developments in treatments, the complications of the disease, psychological barriers to controlling diabetes, nutritional issues and much more.

“This TCOYD conference will give people an edge on the information and empowerment they need to live well with diabetes,” said Dr. Steven Edelman, Founder and Director of TCOYD.

TCOYD conference participants can hear lectures, participate in screenings, experiment with different forms of exercise and speak one-on-one with diabetes specialists such as certified diabetes educators, podiatrists, dieticians and more. One 2008 New Orleans participant said, “Here I am at 54 learning how to make changes and take my life back. TCOYD has given me hope”

In addition to the conference, a health fair with approximately 50 informational exhibits from national and local diabetes-related companies and organizations will be open throughout the day. Lunch is included and will feature a presentation by Tony Award winning actor, dancer and singer Ben Vereen, who has been living well with type 2 diabetes. Vereen will speak about living with diabetes and the benefits of TCOYD and sanofi-aventis U.S.’ “Start Taking Action Now for Diabetes” (S.T.A.N.D) program. Likewise, open wheel racecar driver Charlie Kimball will speak about living with type 1 diabetes and being the only licensed Indy car driver in history with the disease. Now that is what we call a one-of-a-kind event!

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity! For more information and to register, visit the conference landing page .