This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Jeff Frahm, Subway® restaurants and Ziv Alcalay, Vitazest® water on their new “Diabetes Friendlier Menu, Scoopit.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Jeff Frahm

Jeff Frahm was the middle child of a conservative working class family in Ft. Collins, Colorado. At 17 and newly graduated from high school he boldly and courageously loaded all his belongings in his Volkswagen bug and drove across country to Phoenix, Arizona to start his career and future. Through true grit and determination over the next several years Jeff became a leader in his industry. His tried and tested failures did not stop Jeff from achieving his goals. Today as a top developer with a leading restaurant chain company Jeff rubs shoulders on a regular basis with millionaires who daily consult with him for business advice as well as strive to imitate his vision, motivational ability, and professional business approach.

“Keep Your Feet on the Ground and Reach for the Stars” has always been Jeff Frahm’s mission statement in life and business. In 1991, at 21 years of age he moved back to Eureka Springs, Arkansas with his new wife to begin his career in Subway as a franchisee with his father. Starting at the “bottom of the food chain” he worked his way to the top of his game and in 2003 was personally recruited by the founder of Subway, Fred Deluca to work directly with him. As a result, he became the North American Development Manager for Subway Corporate overseeing 1000+ Subway restaurants in over 13 territories including Canada. His job in these corporate takeovers was to clean up and restructure teams of people not only on the corporate management level but also to motivate the existing franchisee pool to better perform and increase sales. Jeff has received many accolades for his work and his ability to be a visionary with the follow through it takes to achieve excellence. He is a skillful leader and teacher who inspires and empowers people to set and reach their goals. Several ideas created at these brainstorming sessions are now standard practices within these restaurants.

Changing Mindsets and Developing People to Reach their True Potential

If you were to ask anyone who has worked with Jeff for any period of time you would quickly find out he is a sought after genius in his field. His colleagues would tell you that he has incredible talent they wish they could better tap into and implement. His employees would say they are “loyal to him for life” as he pushes people to realize just how great they can be and doesn’t accept excuses from himself nor those who work for him. His wife of 20 years would tell you he has truly developed into a well-rounded business and family man who pushes through obstacles most people never even try to break through, all this with a positive attitude. His friends would tell you he is a very well respected teacher and great role model for young people.

In 2008 Jeff became self-employed and currently is owner of MOKAN Franchise Development Inc. overseeing Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas Subway franchises. He also continues to be involved in ownership of restaurants that allow him to tap into his love for developing people.

In just 2009 alone Jeff has been asked to speak at multiple seminars and conventions throughout North America, both in the business realm and in his religious affiliation. On a great day for Jeff you would find him doing what he loves the most: speaking in front of large groups of people truly inspiring them to break through their negative mental barriers to become BETTER business entrepreneurs, BETTER parents, BETTER husbands/wives, BETTER people.

Photo Above:  Jeff Frahm ~ Subway® restaurants

Ziv Alcalay

Ziv Alcalay, born in Israel, immigrated as an infant to New York City in 1972 with his parents. Shortly thereafter, the three were joined in the US by Ziv’s father’s family consisting of Ziv’s three uncles and their families.

Aside from being a close knit family, they all shared a common goal of pursuing the “American Dream”.  Each of the four brothers was motivated and accustomed to hard work. They viewed America as “The Land of Opportunity”.  It wasn’t long before Ziv’s father and uncles immersed themselves into what was going to become a series of lifelong business partnerships.

These events were to eventually shape Ziv’s values, dreams and life goals. Ziv was exposed to a perfect life balance of family members, who lived together, worked together and celebrated life together. This unique and exciting environment is what fostered Ziv’s fascination with entrepreneurship.

His father recalls that even as a young boy, Ziv would often forgo spending time with friends outdoors in favor of sitting in on business meetings with adults 30 years his senior. By the time Ziv was a teenager; his insider exposure to the family business instilled in him a wealth of business knowledge, well beyond his years. At this point, Ziv had truly come to value both his tight knit family and the family business.

Ziv’s high energy personality, coupled with his ambition for success motivated him to expedite his entry into the professional world. Ziv opted into an early admission business program at New York University at age seventeen and completed his double major degree in Finance and International Business by the age of 20.

During the course of his studies, he worked full time in the family commodity trading business, playing a key role in expanding it from a regional venture to an international enterprise.

Ziv’s enriching childhood experiences taught him that “if there is a will, there is a way!” This motto still guides Ziv in every facet of his life today. His colleagues and peers know that he will not take “no” for an answer once his mind is set.

In his personal life, Ziv is a true family man. He cherishes quality time with his wife of 5 years and three young children.  Ziv has made it a personal goal to pass along to his children the importance of family and the values that he is guided by.  Ziv maintains a very active lifestyle physically, and is considered by many a ‘health nut’. He often preaches to his peers the importance of a healthy body as a compliment to a healthy mind. He takes his good health seriously and considers exercise and overall wellbeing necessities of life rather than luxuries.

As COO and co-creator of VITAZEST Water, Ziv takes pride in marketing a product that truly delivers on the “good- for- you promise”.  This product’s nutritional profile is in line with Ziv’s health beliefs. Furthermore, VITAZEST has been deemed by medical experts a safe and preferred drink option for people diagnosed with diabetes and pre-diabetes. VITAZEST is a contributor to diabetes research through The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation. VITAZEST gives back to the community with the ultimate goal of finding a cure for the disease.

Although, always on the move, Ziv is a down to earth individual who enjoys the simple things in life. His hobbies are working with children, playing the guitar, regular exercise and coaching sports. Ziv constantly reminds himself that he is blessed in many ways and never takes any of his blessings for granted.

Photo Above:  Ziv Alcalay ~ Vitazest® Water

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March 2, 2010 ~ William “Lee” Dubois, author

Study Finds Medicare Beneficiaries Under Use of

Their Benefits is Driving Health Care Cost

An analysis of Medicare claims data, conducted by the National Minority Quality Forum (The Forum), covering a six-year period provides strong signals that Medicare beneficiaries with chronic diseases on whom Medicare spends the least are a major factor contributing to rising costs.  Results from this analysis show that beneficiaries with diabetes who consume the least-as evidenced by the level of reimbursement associated with their care-are more likely to cost the program significantly more in the short term.

These findings, with implications for health care reform, have prompted the formation of the Diabetes Care Project (DCP) (www.diabetescareproject.org).  Founded by The Forum and Roche Diagnostics, DCP is a new coalition of patient advocates and health partners who are committed to dramatically reducing acute events that are a consequence of diabetic complications through early interventions and improved chronic-care management.

About Diabetes

Diabetes is a growing public health epidemic affecting over 23 million Americans. According to the American Diabetes Association and the Centers for Disease Control, type 2 diabetes, fueled by rising rates of obesity, accounts for nearly 90-95 percent of all diabetics and disproportionately affects minority and aging populations in the US (nearly 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have diabetes). The U.S. spends approximately $174 billion in annual total costs for diagnosed diabetes with $166 billion in direct medical costs. Further, one out of every four Medicare dollars is spent on beneficiaries with diabetes, with a high percentage attributed to tertiary illness caused by unmanaged or undermanaged diabetes.

About the National Minority Quality Forum

The National Minority Quality Forum (http://www.nmqf.org) was founded in 1998 as a nonprofit organization. Its mission is to strengthen national and local efforts to eliminate the disproportionate burden of premature death and preventable illness in racial and ethnic minorities and other special populations through the use of evidence-based, data-driven initiatives, including a series of health atlases (http://www.z-atlas.com).

About American Association of Diabetes Educators

AADE is a multi-disciplinary professional membership organization dedicated to improving diabetes care through education. With more than 12,000 professional members including nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, physicians, and others, AADE has a vast network of practitioners involved in the daily treatment of diabetes patients. Collectively, our alliances, member practitioner networks, and academic partners uniquely position AADE at the locus of change for the future treatment of diabetes.

For more information, please visit: www.diabeteseducator.org.

About Roche Diabetes Care

Roche Diabetes Care is a pioneer in the development of blood glucose monitoring systems and a global leader for diabetes management systems and services. For more than 30 years, Roche has been committed to helping people with diabetes live lives that are as normal and active as possible and has been helping healthcare professionals manage their patients’ condition in an optimal way. Today, the ACCU-CHEK portfolio offers people with diabetes and healthcare professionals innovative products, services and comprehensive solutions for convenient, efficient and effective diabetes management-from blood glucose monitoring through information management to insulin delivery. The ACCU-CHEK brand encompasses blood glucose meters, infusion pumps, lancing and data management systems.

For more information, please visit accu-chek.com.

About Roche

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management. Roche’s personalized healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients.

In 2008, Roche had over 80,000 employees worldwide and invested almost 9 billion Swiss francs in R & D. The Group posted sales of 45.6 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. For more information: www.roche-diagnostics.us.

About Healthways

Healthways is the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and well-being and, as a result, reduce overall costs. Healthways’ solutions are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression to disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. Our proven, evidence-based programs provide highly specific and personalized interventions for each individual in a population, irrespective of age or health status, and are delivered to consumers by phone, mail, internet and face-to-face interactions, both domestically and internationally. Healthways also provides a national, fully accredited complementary and alternative Health Provider Network and a national Fitness Center Network, offering convenient access to individuals who seek health services outside of, and in conjunction with, the traditional healthcare system.

For more information, please visit: www.healthways.com

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview William “Lee” DuBois, Diabetes Coordinator and Author.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

About the Author:

William “Lee” Dubois is the Diabetes Coordinator of the non-profit Pecos Valley Medical Center in Northern New Mexico where he supervises the diabetes education and health care of over 250 patients. He is a community faculty member for the diabetes specialty program of Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, where he is engaged in teaching community health workers diabetes education skills via tele-medicine. Lee, a Type-1 Diabetic himself, is also the host of Diabetes P.A.L. (Peer Assisted Learning), a state-wide weekly phone-in support and education program for newly diagnosed diabetics sponsored by the Division of Endocrinology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and Project ECHO.

He writes LifeAfterDx, and internet diabetes health column, and is the author the patient hand-books:

The Born-Again Diabetic: the handbook to help you get your diabetes in control (Again)

Taming the Tiger: Your first year with diabetes  

Domar al Tigre: Tu primer año con diabetes

And the soon to be released:

Beyond Fingersticks: the Continuous Glucose Monitoring revolution

 for diabetes management

[Red Blood Cell Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9822257-3-3].

Photo Above:  William “Lee” DuBois

Listen to The Latest Broadcast of Diabetes Living Today®

March 2, 2010 ~ William “Lee” DuBois, author

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Dr. Howard Goldstein, Endocrinologist.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Dr. Howard Goldstein

Dr. Howard Goldstein is a busy endocrinologist at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton, N.J., and he has been involved in the practice of Diabetes since completion of his Fellowship in 1965 at The Joslin Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts.  He served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was Staff Physician a The Joslin Clinic 1965 to 1977 and President of American Diabetes Association - Massachusetts 1986 to 1988. In 1992 to 1997 he was Chairman, Diabetes Disease State Management Team -HIP OF NEW JERSEY.

Dr. Goldstein was Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine 1997 to 2004 at UMDNJ, in New Brunswick, N.J.  He was founding president of the Leadership Council - American Diabetes Association of New Jersey 2001-2003. Dr. Goldstein stays clinically active at his Robert Wood Johnson endocrine office in Hamilton, NJ. He is a member of the consulting staff at The Medical Center at Princeton. He is an avid learner, has a quick dance step, and is a prolific physician educator.

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Dr. Lawrence Wallach, Endocrinologist.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Dr. Lawrence Wallach

Dr. Wallach is presently a clinical endocrinologist practicing in Delaware County, PA., for 35 years.   He is a native New Yorker and graduated Queens College in 1965, where he also briefly taught Biology while on a graduate assistantship.  Dr. Wallach attended Hahnemann Medical College where he received full academic scholarships in his junior and senior year and was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the AOA Honor Society in his junior year.

Dr. Wallach interned in San Francisco in 1969-70 and then spent the next two years in the United States Public Health Service (Indian Health Branch) in Winslow, AZ., (where he often stood on the corner).  In 1973, he was a medical resident at the University of Vermont, followed by two years at McGill University Hospitals in Montreal, Canada as a fellow in Endocrinology.

Dr. Wallach has been actively involved in teaching young physicians in his career and holds academic appointments at both Drexel and Temple Universities.  He has sat on the boards of several medical societies and is a past president of the Philadelphia Endocrine Society.

Dr. Wallach is married to Paula for “41 years” and they have four sons and five grandsons.

Photo Above:  Dr. Lawrence Wallach

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Marc Lichter, editor of Diabetes Health Monitor Magazine.    Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Marc Lichter, Managing/Senior Editor, Health Monitor Network

Marc Lichter brings 30 years of editorial experience to Health Monitor Network, the leading provider of patient-education publications, including Diabetes Health Monitor. Marc has been the lead editor of Diabetes Health Monitor since August 2008, and he’s been instrumental in making the publication ever more useful to those with diabetes. Among his goals has been to raise awareness of the condition by increasing celebrity input, helping everyone realize that diabetes can affect anyone, no matter how rich or famous they might be. Simultaneously, Diabetes Health Monitor stresses the everyday concerns of all those with diabetes in an effort to help them improve their lives from day to day.

Just prior to joining the Health Monitor team, Marc was executive editor at Caring Today, where he brought his expertise and first-hand knowledge regarding how to assist the seriously ill and the family caregivers responsible for their well-being to that company’s print and web products. As the content director for Caring Today, he was responsible for, among other things, the creation of “The Basic Caregiver Guide,” “The Diabetes Caregiver Guide,” “The Caregiver Guide to Respite Care,” and “The COPD Caregiver Guide.” He also authored the popular caregiver blog entitled “The Caring Mind.” Marc was recently named the editor in charge of www.healthmonitor.com, and he is dedicated to making that site more interactive, informative and user-friendly.

Marc, who attended Case Western Reserve University, is the widowed father of one daughter, of whom he is immensely proud.

Quote:

“Learning about one’s illness, how to get the most from the patient-doctor relationship, and the need to balance caregiving with one’s own well-being are paramount,” says Health Monitor Network Managing/Senior Editor Marc Lichter. “Having dealt with my loved ones’ serious health issues, I understand the importance of bringing solid information to those facing similar concerns.”

Photo Above:  Marc Lichter

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This week Kitty and  Dr. Fallon  will host their No Sugar Added®  “open forum.”  Dr. Paul J. Lawyer will be guest co-host for Kitty who is attending a “Diabetes Health Screening” at Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, Fl.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Dr. Paul J. Lawyer

Paul graduated in 1989 from Albright college in Reading PA. He received a D.M.D. degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Dental School in 1994. He then completed a General Practice Residency Program at West Jersey Health System, Camden.( Now Virtua Health System.) He has been in private practice since, as a partner at Atco Family Dentistry P.A. in Atco NJ.

Paul is an attending Dentist at the Residency Program in Camden, and on staff at Virtua in the Dental Department. He is an active member of the Southern (NJ) Dental Society, where he has served as President, as well as the the New Jersey Dental Association, where he represents the Southern (NJ) Dental Society as State Trustee, as well as on the Dental Benefits Committee. He is also a member of the American Dental Association.

In his practice he treats patients from 2 to 92, (some even a little older!), in most phases of dentistry He particularly enjoys cosmetic and restorative treatment.

Photo Above: Dr. Paul J. Lawyer

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will host their No Sugar Added®  “open forum.”  Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Photo Above:  Kitty Castellini & Dr. Joseph J. Fallon, Jr.

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Riva Greenberg, author of “50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and the 50 Diabetes Truths Than Can Save It and,  The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes.   Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call In:  856-696-0092.

Riva Greenberg

Having lived with type 1 diabetes for 37 years, Riva is committed through her research, writing and lectures to help others live an exceptional life, not despite having diabetes but because of it, using diabetes as a catalyst to create a healthier, happier, more meaningful life. Riva is the author of “50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: And the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It” and “The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes.” Riva has conducted more than 140 interviews with people living with diabetes, family members and diabetes professionals to inform her work and research. Riva travels across the U.S. delivering educational/motivational presentations to fellow patients as a peer-mentor and coaches patients to achieve better health. Riva also writes a blog on her web site, diabetesstories.com.

Experience

Riva is a communications professional with over twenty-five years experience in advertising, marketing, branding and change communication. Riva has provided strategic communications consulting for major corporations, creating motivational health and financial campaigns, and organizational change communications for companies in turn-around.  Her clients have included: Bank of America, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Clarion, Epson, Federal Express, Hitachi, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Kenneth Cole, Kraft/General Foods, MetLife, National Service-Learning Partnership, Pitney Bowes, Pfizer and Sutter Health.

Riva has served as Director of Global Communications for Xceed Worldwide Group, Creative Director for Dentsu, Japan, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies and Creative Supervisor at Compton, Inc, New York City. In 2009 she was an advisor to Roche at their Diabetes Care Social Media Summit.

Awards

Distinctions: first place in the 2008 ‘Inspired by Diabetes Creative Expression competition’ sponsored by Eli Lilly and the International Diabetes Federation; the Gold Quill award from the International Association of Business Communicators; the ACE Award of Excellence for employee-relations communication and the Business Insurance Award of Excellence. Her first book, “The ABC of Loving Yourself,” published by Random House, won the Australian Children’s Book of the Year award.

Education

BA, Communication & Art, Magna cum Laude, SUNY at Buffalo. Riva has lived and worked in Copenhagen, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney.

AFFILIATIONS

Riva serves on the Advisory Board of Mount Sinai’s and Methodist Hospital’s Diabetes Center in New York City and the editorial committee of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Photo Above:  Riva Greenberg

This week Kitty and Dr. Fallon will interview Dr. Raul Rosenthal, Bariatric Surgery  from The Cleveland Clinic ~ Florida.  Listener’s are invited to call in with their questions and comments.  Tuesday Evening 8:00 pm ~ 9:00 pm (EST) on Cruisin 92.1 FM~WVLT, streaming live on the web at www.wvlt.com  Call IN:  856-696-0092.

Raul Rosenthal MD FACS

Graduate of Medical School in Rosario , Argentina. Trained as a general surgeon at the Provincial Hospital in Rosario, Argentina between 1981 and 1983. Emigrated to Germany to repeat general surgical residency training between 1983 and 1990. Revalidated the MD degree and  obtained title of  general surgeon from the  German Society of Surgeons. Worked as attending surgeon until 1993 at the University Hospital, Krankenhaus Nordwest , Frankfurt, Germany. Emigrated to the US to work as a research fellow in MIS  at UCLA/Cedars Sinai Medical Center until 1996. Obtained MD degree ECFMG and repeated surgical residency training at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Since 1999 Chief Department of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Rosenthal is an Associate professor of surgery at the University of South Florida and is the Director of the Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Fellowship Program at  Cleveland Clinic, Weston Florida. Dr. Rosenthal is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons and Honorary Fellow of the German Society of Visceral Surgery. He is an Active Member of the Board of Governors of SAGES. Medical Editor for Bariatric Times. Chair of the International Centers of Excellence Program in Bariatric Surgery of the SRC. Co-Chair of the Go Global Initiative, SAGES. Dr. Rosenthal is the Chair of the International Committee of the ASMBS and member of the Executive Board of the Fellowship Council. He is in addition an Active Member of the institutional Relations, Clinical Outcomes and Emerging Technology Committees of The American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons. Dr. Rosenthal has published over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals, he is the editor of 3 textbooks in general and endoscopic surgery and author of over 50 chapters in general surgery books.

Photo Above:  Dr. Raul Rosenthal