The Diabetes Self-Defense® Institute

•  Boris Draznin, M.D., Ph.D. - author,  The Draznin Plan: The Thinking Person's Guide to Diabetes. One of the world’s leading diabetes researchers with over thirty years of diabetes research, Dr. Drazin is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center as well as Director of Research at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and he has published over 120 scientific papers on diabetes and has been recognized by the American Diabetes Association as a leading researcher. 

• Kevin Tong, M.D., F.A.C.P. - a practicing endocrinologist in Denver, CO, Dr. Tong is board-certified in Diabetes, Internal Medicine, Metabolism, and Endocrinology.  Since graduating from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1986, Dr. Tong has served as a staff internist/endocrinologist, an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and a consulting endocrinologist as well as being the author of multiple scientific papers. 

   

• David Mendosa is a freelance journalist and consultant specializing in diabetes. After earning a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. from Claremont Graduate University, he became a Foreign Service officer. He worked 11 years in Washington and four years in Africa for the U.S. foreign aid program. Subsequently, he became a journalist, initially specializing in writing about small business. However, when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in February 1994, he began to write entirely about that condition. His articles and columns have appeared in many of the major diabetes magazines and Web sites. His own website, David Mendosa's Diabetes Directory, mendosa.com/diabetes, was one of the first and is now one of the largest with that focus. It includes about 800 of his articles or web pages about diabetes. Every month he also publishes a free email newsletter called "Diabetes Update." Twice weekly he writes for his blog at http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/. He is a coauthor of The New Glucose Revolution: What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? (New York: Marlowe & Co., first edition in 2003, second American edition in July 2006, and other publishers in the U.K., Australia, and Taiwan). He is the author of Losing Weight with Your Diabetes Medication: How Byetta and Other Drugs Can Help You Lose More Weight than You Ever Thought Possible (New York: Persus Books, March 2008).