Operation Diabetes

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Operation Diabetes

• 2007

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Chairs

• Spring 2007
• Min-li Wu, Senior Chair
• Elaine Sit, Co-Chair
• Fall 2007
• Seferina Kim-Walsh, Senior Chair (sloza002)
• Shirley Lee, Co-Chair

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Statistics

• of patients screened 364
• of patients educated 675
• of patients potentially educated 23,975
• of patients referred to a physician 136
• of faculty and staff that participated 17
• of student pharmacists that participated 102
• of hours spent planning Operation Diabetes 114
• of hours spent implementing Operation Diabetes
  48
• Total number of events/ projects held 9

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2007 Event Listing

• March Charlestown Health Fair
• April Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Fair
• May Flowermart Community Fair
• May CMS Holistic Health Fair
• April University of Maryland at Baltimore Health
  Fair
• May Tour de Cure
• August Diabetes Awareness Day at the Maryland
  Science Center
• October Step Out to Fight Diabetes
• September Bass Pro Shops Health Fair
• October Diabetic Halloween
• November City of Rockville Health Fair
• October Adventures for the Cure the Doc
• October Operation Diabetes Training for Health
  Fairs

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Health Fairs
Banner and table at the Flowermart
Student Pharmacist Sylvia Hanna performing the
Risk Assessment at the Flowermart
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Health Fairs
Student pharmacists of various years at the CMS
Holistic Health Fair
Candidate Laura Zendel and patient at the City of
Rockville Health Fair
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Health Fairs
First, third, and fourth years at the City of
Rockville Health Fair reviewing the steps of
measuring blood pressure.
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FundraisingOperation Diabetes raised over 3000
in 2007!
Team Pharmacy Tour de Cure May 12, 2007
Team University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Step Out to Fight Diabetes October 6, 2007
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Focus Children

• Executive Chef Derrick Heart-Healthy,
  Sugar-Friendly Cooking Demonstrations
• Fun with Exercise (and t-shirt giveaways) with
  Adventures for the Cure
• Portion Distortion / Nutrition Education by the
  Maryland Diabetes Educators Association (MDEA)
• Nutrition Education with AFC
• Pancreas Game with the ADA
• Bike Across America with Adventures for the Cure
• Diabetes Risk Assessments and BP Screenings with
  UMAB School of Pharmacy and School of Nursing at
  the BodyLink Exhibit
• Pedometer Giveaways, courtesy of Novo Nordisk
• Vendors walkway

Maryland Science Center August 25, 2007 12pm-4pm
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Focus ChildrenDiabetes Awareness Day
T-shirt giveaways
Children playing, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
with the Maryland Diabetes Educators Association
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Focus ChildrenDiabetes Awareness Day

• 1300 tickets sold that day
• 500 pedometers and 10,000 Steps pamphlets were
  handed out within 2 hours
• 400 heart-healthy and sugar-friendly portions
  were eaten.
• 66 Roche/Accu-Chek backpacks were handed out to
  diagnosed diabetics.
• 300 children completed activities and received a
  t-shirt.
• Approximately 60 children watched/played the
  ADA/Pancreas Game and learned about diabetes.
• 120 Portion distortion quizzes and 65 stuffed
  animals were passed out

BodyLink Exhibit Pharmacists, Student
Pharmacist, and Registered Nurse
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Focus ChildrenDiabetic Halloween

• Teaching children about the pancreas, glucose,
  insulin and the involvement in DM
• Providing a safe Halloween celebration!

Lakshmi Potti, Class of 2009, face painting
3rd Graders in Pharmacy Hall
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Operation Training

• Joint effort with Student National Pharmaceutical
  Association
• Training for Health Fairs in DM outreach

Dr. Heather Free demonstrating the use of a
glucometer to 20 students
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More in 2008...
Special screening of, Adventures for the Cure
the Doc with QA session with filmmakers and
cyclists Riding across America was proof that
Adam Driscoll, a Type 1 diabetic, can do anything
he puts his mind to. Operation Diabetes will
hold a special fundraiser screening for
Adventures for the Cure, which is dedicated to
raising awareness for DM.
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More in 2008...
Expansion to Metabolic Syndrome Awareness!
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