by Irene Hsiao | Mar 20, 2025 | community, research, team members
More than medications alone, managing diabetes means mastering habits that affect day-to-day living: how to eat, how often to exercise, and how to monitor blood sugar and other markers of health. Yet under routine care, many patients with diabetes see their doctors a few times a year for just minutes. Now a team led by C3EN’s Arshiya Baig is testing how structured virtual diabetes group education visits can improve the success of patients as they learn to manage their disease.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 20, 2025 | newsletter, research, team members
The chance to be healthy isn’t something everyone has, and that realization pulled me into public health.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 19, 2025 | news, newsletter, pilot awards, research, Uncategorized
Chicago girls are two to three times more depressed and anxious than girls nationwide, and 40% are shouldering adult responsibilities, including financial, at a time critical to development said C3EN Pilot Awardee Melissa Gutierrez-Kapheim.
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 17, 2025 | minigrant, news, newsletter
Cases of syphilis particularly affecting the central nervous system, vision, and hearing are rising in heterosexual men in Chicago
by Irene Hsiao | Mar 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
C3EN Investigator Development Core mentor Monica Peek, Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice of Medicine and Associate Director of the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research at the University of Chicago, discusses barriers to care for Black patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Sheila Harmon, Director of Provider Practice at UI Health, on Medscape Care Cues