The Diabetes
Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization
incorporated in New Jersey and traces its origins to 1990. Originally
known as NFD the Foundation for Diabetes, the Foundation defines
its community as the state of New Jersey.
"Charity and personal
force
are the only investments worth anything."
Walt Whitman
The Foundation offers programs and services
to a population affected by a serious health problem. Diabetes
is a chronic disease that impairs the body's ability to produce
or properly use insulin, a hormone essential for life. Diabetes and its complications - which can include heart disease, kidney failure,
blindness and stroke - are the third
leading cause of death by disease
in the United States.
Facts:
..... 20+ million Americans have diabetes; 1/3 of them don't
know it!
..... Another 41 million have "pre-diabetes," a stage
when diabetes can often still be prevented or at least delayed.
..... Diabetes costs about $132 billion a year of which $92 billion
are direct medical costs; the rest are indirect costs such as
loss of work productivity.
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Volunteer Board of Trustees
& Staff |
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The Foundation's Volunteer Board
of Trustees consists of professionals from the business and medical
world: |
SAMUEL FUSCO
Chairman of the Board |
ANTHONY B. MARRANO
President |
TARA CHARVAT |
GARY VAN SCHAFTEN
Executive Vice President |
BYRON DRISCOLL |
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
Vice President |
BARBARA ERTEL, MS, RD, CDE
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ROBERT ZAWISHA
Treasurer |
NORMAN ERTEL, MD
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JOSEPH E. FAHERTY
Secretary |
PETER FUSCO,
ESQ. |
NICHOLAS G. BARANETSKY, MD |
JOSEPH
GIANGOLA, MD |
STEPHEN P. BELL |
ANDREW
NOVIELLI |
| MARTIN
BLECHMAN, MD |
JOHN SHIN, MD |
| PATRICIA
CARMICHAEL |
CHARLOTTE SOKOL, MD |
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JENNY CARROLL, ESQ.
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Diabetes Foundation,
Inc.
1-800-633-3160
fax: 201-444-5580
Diabetes.Foundation@Verizon.net