Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet, where she performed from
1983 to 1999. Diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 21, she is now a diabetes educator and
motivational speaker, sharing her inspirational story as well as her love of movement and dance with
people of all ages. She is a spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Children with Diabetes, and Take Control of Your Diabetes. She also teaches and stages George Balanchine's choreography for dance companies worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Christopher D. Saudek, M.D., graduated from Harvard College in Boston, Mass., and Cornell University Medical College in New York City, training in internal medicine in metabolism at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He served on the faculty at Cornell before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., where he is currently the Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center.
At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Saudek teaches students at all levels. He sees patients regularly, and lectures on various aspects of diabetes. With a nurse educator and behavioral therapist, he authored The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes: for Today and Tomorrow. His research interests have included the early description of A1C as an index of blood glucose control and development of the implantable insulin pump, and he served as a principal investigator of the federally funded Diabetes Prevention Program. He has been program director of the Hopkins General Clinical Research Center, is a principal investigator of a training grant in diabetes and endocrinology at Johns Hopkins, and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 35 years.
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