Seeing Through the Storm: Diabetes and Eye Health

Living with diabetes means paying attention to your health in ways others may never fully understand, and eye health is one of the most important parts of that journey. For Healthy Vision Month, this episode of Diabetes Day by Day features Sterling Glass sharing his personal diabetes and eye health journey, and why protecting vision is so important for people living with diabetes.

Presented by:

Neil Skolnik, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health, Abington, PA

Lucia M. Novak, MSN, ANP-BC, BC-ADM, President and Founder of Diabesity LLC; Co-Executive Director, Diabetologist, and Obesity Management Specialist at Capital Health & Metabolic Center (part of Capital Diabetes & Endocrine Associates), Greater DC Area

Sterling Glass, Diabetes Advocate living with type 1 diabetes and a member of the Blind Boys of Alabama

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Additional resources:

Learn more about diabetes and eye health at diabetes.org/EyeHealth and enjoy the music of the Blind Boys of Alabama on their Spotify playlist.

Read more about Sterling's journey.