Reading Resident and Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Charitable Giving at Eastern Bank, Nancy Huntington Stager, Attends Joslin's Latino Diabetes Initiative Benefit

From left to right: Doug Lee, Executive Diabetes Sales, Eli Lilly and Company; John Brooks, President & CEO of Joslin Diabetes Center; Todd Snook, Executive Director of Diabetes Specialty Sales, AstraZeneca; Nancy Huntington Stager, Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Charitable Giving, Eastern Bank; Michael Green, Senior Endocrinology Diabetes Care Specialist, Novo Nordisk, Inc.

Photo credit- Genevieve de Manio

Joslin President and CEO John Brooks took time to thank representatives from ritmos de salud’s “oro sponsors,” AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk, and “plata sponsors,” Boehringer-Ingelheim/Eli Lilly Alliance and Eastern Bank before stepping on stage to welcome guests to the 3rd Annual ritmos de salud, benefitting Joslin’s Latino Diabetes Initiative. The event was held at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston on Friday, September 26, 2014.

Diabetes is a disease of epidemic proportions across all populations, affecting certain racial/ethnic groups in even greater numbers. National data demonstrates that Latinos have a two-fold increase in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to the Caucasian population.

Joslin Diabetes Center’s Latino Diabetes Initiative (LDI) strives to improve the lives of Latinos affected by diabetes, or at risk for the disease, through culturally oriented patient care, education, outreach and research, as well as working to find a cure.