Susan Mirsky, center, with daughter Jennifer Mirsky, left, and Selassie Ogyaadu, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Coordinator, provided diabetes information at the health fair.
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently celebrated World Diabetes Day with a health fair in the Guggenheim Pavilion. A multidisciplinary team led by Camilla Levister, MS, ANP-C, CDE, from the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, provided body-fat testing, type 2 diabetes risk assessment, and nutritional counseling. Several organizations were also on hand to promote healthy living, including the American Diabetes Association and the 92nd Street Y, which offered an exercise class for all fitness levels. Year-round, the Center’s Stanley Mirsky, MD Diabetes Education Unit offers free diabetes education classes in Spanish and English and social support for those at risk for the disease, or living with it. “Every year, my family and I are thrilled to volunteer at World Diabetes Day and get the word out about the Unit,” said Susan Mirsky, honorary Chair of the Unit, which is named for her late husband, a renowned Mount Sinai endocrinologist. “Diabetes is a uniquely self-controlled disease. We provide knowledge so that the patient—not diabetes—is in control.”