Dr. Karen Talmadge is 2013 Chair of the Board of the American Diabetes Association, http://www.diabetes.org/. She received her PhD from Harvard University. She has a daughter with type 1 diabetes. She describes her career and her experience of raising a child with diabetes. She explains her work with the American Diabetes Association. She highlights the effects of diabetes on children. She identifies some of the most challenging of the challenges created by diabetes for pre-school children and school-age children, and their parents. She discusses the ways in which the challenges are confronted
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