Snapshot: Lions Club educates community on diabetes
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Guest speakers and health care professionals at the Zionsville Lions Club diabetes awareness event were, from left, speaker Lindsey Bankert, RN and certified diabetes educator at St. Vincent in Indianapolis; Dr. Mel Prince, Lions Club member and retired senior medical director at Lilly Diabetes; Sophie Maier, a registered dietician at Zionsville Meadows; and Michelle Clemente, director of marketing at Zionsville Meadows.
Lions Club member Dr. Mel Prince, retired senior medical director at Lilly Diabetes, speaks to the crowd.
From left, Judy and James Brown speak with Indiana Lions Club president and Diabetes Committee Chair Chris Reinhold. They learned from him that one-third of adults in the U.S. are pre-diabetic and 90 percent of them do not realize it.
Lions Club member Randy Wright displays literature available at the event.
From left, Becky and Bill Stafford of Zionsville speak with Lions Club member John Williams.
Jerry Cheung of Zionsville takes the Diabetes Risk Assessment before the guest speakers took the stage.
Guest speakers and health care professionals at the Zionsville Lions Club diabetes awareness event were, from left, speaker Lindsey Bankert, RN and certified diabetes educator at St. Vincent in Indianapolis; Dr. Mel Prince, Lions Club member and retired senior medical director at Lilly Diabetes; Sophie Maier, a registered dietician at Zionsville Meadows; and Michelle Clemente, director of marketing at Zionsville Meadows.
The Zionsville Lions Club kicked off an initiative to provide education on diabetes with an informational meeting Feb. 15. Guests speakers shared about the disease, risk factors, steps to treat it and more. (Photos by Dawn Pearson)
