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The Increasing Role of the Pharmacist in Diabetes Care
on Diabetes Discourse
The management of diabetes is a sophisticated multi-disciplinary approach. There are multiple benefits to both the physician treating diabetes patients and the patients themselves by increasing the role of the pharmacist to provide a collaborative approach to care and placing the patient at the center. Join host Dr. Steven Edelman and his guest, pharmacist from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Candis Morello, as they discuss the benefit of the increasing role of the pharmacist in the management of diabetes.
 Dr. Steven Edelman is a professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of California, San Diego. He is director of the Diabetes Care Clinic at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Diego. Dr. Edelman has been living with type 1 diabetes since 1970, and is founder and director of Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), a not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to educate and motivate people with diabetes to take an active role in their condition.Dr. Edelman received his MD from the University of California, Davis. His postgraduate training included a residency in internal medicine at UCLA-San Fernando, a clinical fellowship in diabetes and metabolism at the Joslin Clinic and the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, and a research fellowship in diabetes and metabolism at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Edelman is board certified in internal medicine and metabolism, diabetes, and endocrinology.Dr. Edelman's honors include the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine; the Chief Resident's Teacher of the Year Award from the University of California, San Diego; and the American Diabetes Association's Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award.
 Dr. Candis Morello is founding faculty and an associate professor of clinical pharmacy in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. She chairs a year-long pharmacy practice course and teaches in the third year therapeutics course. She focuses her teaching on diabetes care, communication skills, and tobacco cessation, for which she has received several teaching awards from both students and colleagues. Dr. Morello earned her Pharm.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy in 1996, and completed a pharmacy practice residency with a geriatrics emphasis at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. She is board certified as a Diabetes Educator through the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators.
Dr. Morello is an Ambulatory Care Pharmacist Specialist who helped establish and manage diabetes clinics at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego (NMCSD). he received a letter of commendation from the Commanding Admiral of the NMCSD for these endeavors and most recently she was awarded the ASHP Literature Award for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice describing her diabetes clinic work. Currently, Dr. Morello serves as an advisor for Diabetes Night at the UCSD Student-Run Free Medical Clinic Project in downtown San Diego serving the working poor and homeless population and has recently developed a Diabetes Intense Medical Management Clinic at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. Her practice and research have focused on diabetes care and related diseases, endocrinology, anticoagulation and clinical education. She has authored several articles, book chapters and abstracts and serves as a reviewer for prestigious publications and texts.In 2002, Dr. Morello was honored with the San Diego Society of Health-System Pharmacists "Pharmacist of the Year" award. In addition, in 2003 she was recognized at the California Society of Heath-System Pharmacists Practitioner Recognition Program as a practitioner fellow.
Dr. Morello is actively involved in several community outreach projects related to diabetes and preventative care. For over a decade, she has been a volunteer faculty member for the "Taking Control of Your Diabetes" not-for-profit organization and writes the "From Your Pharmacist" column for its nationally distributed newsletter.
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