Lorraine Mongiello
New York Institute of technology,USA
Biography
For more than 30 years, Dr. Mongiello, a registered dietitian/nutritionist and a certified diabetes educator, has specialized in public health, nutrition and the prevention and treatment of diabetes. She was the director of the Campaign against Diabetes at The City University of New York (CUNY) and was the director of the Diabetes Care Center at St. Charles Hospital on the North Shore of Long Island, where she implemented a diabetes education program serving more than 500 people annually. Additionally, she had has provided medical nutritional therapy in obesity programs, nursing homes, hospitals, an early intervention program, a dialysis center, pediatric clinics and in private practice. Currently, Dr. Mongiello is a professor in the clinical nutrition and interdisciplinary health sciences departments at New Your Institute of Technology (NYIT) in Old Westbury, New York. Dr. Mongiello received her doctor of public health degree at the CUNY Graduate Center, master’s degree in nutrition and public health at Teacher’s college, Columbia University and bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition science at Lehman College in New York City. Her current research focuses on the social determinates of health and how the environment impacts health behaviors among young adults.
Abstract
Abstract : Diabetes risk and risk perception among Asian Americans