En esta sesión se abordará la creciente importancia del papel que cumplen los promotores de salud en la educación de pacientes y comunidades sobre el cuidado eficaz de la diabetes tipo 2 haciendo énfasis en su rol desde el ámbito de la salud pública.
Otras sesiones
Relación de la salud mental con la diabetes tipo 2 y otras enfermedades crónicas
Nutrición y ejercicio en el automanejo de la diabetes
Complicaciones de la diabetes de tipo 2
Presentadores
Alma
Galván
MHC
Directora de Capacitación y Participación Comunitaria
Migrant Clinicians Network
Alma Galván, MHC, es la directora de Capacitación y Participación Comunitaria de MCN. Galván ha trabajado durante más de tres décadas para mejorar la salud de los trabajadores agrícolas. Galván tiene una amplia experiencia en la prestación de asistencia técnica y en el desarrollo de currículos y materiales educativos para adultos con un dominio limitado del inglés y un nivel limitado de alfabetización, así como también, para trabajadores de salud comunitaria, profesionales de la salud, educadores de salud y médicos. Galván ha trabajado extensamente con aliados de MCN, organizaciones comunitarias, agencias de salud y departamentos de salud locales y estatales.
Dr. Rosado is a Clinical Associate Professor and Regional Director at the Florida State University Isabel Collier Read Medical Campus in Immokalee, Florida. He also serves as a psychologist at a Federally Qualified Health Center primarily treating children of Latino mobile farmworking families. Dr. Rosado is also the Director for the FSU Center for Child Stress & Health – a partner in SAMHSA’S National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Rosado holds a PhD degree from The Florida State University in Counseling Psychology and Human Systems. During his doctoral education, he interned at Yale University Medical School, where he completed a pre-doctoral Internship training program in Clinical and Community Psychology. He currently leads several intervention programs to address toxic stress and early childhood trauma in children from mobile farmworking families.
Wendy Shelly is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes education and care specialist. She worked training Promotores de Salud in El Salvador and Nicaragua for five years and for the past 20 years has worked in community health centers in Washington State, New York, and Pennsylvania, providing primary care nutrition counseling and education to people with chronic health conditions.
Dr. Eva Gálvez is a board-certified family physician at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Oregon, where she manages a busy panel of patients. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2004 and has been working in federally qualified health centers since her residency training. Dr. Gálvez has served as a family medicine clinical instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine.