NYHealth Hosts “National Diabetes Prevention Program: A Conversation with Kenneth Thorpe”
On May 3, 2012, NYHealth hosted a conversation with Kenneth Thorpe, Ph.D., Professor and Chair at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and Executive Director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. Dr. Thorpe discussed the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a model that has been shown to reduce the risk of developing diabetes by 58% among adults with prediabetes.