The Daily Texan, Aug. 13, 2009
UTMB's Dr. Kirk Smith is quoted in this article about a $6 million appropriation from the Legislature to use UTMB's Stark Diabetes Center's model to help prevent diabetes. "Kirk Smith, Stark Diabetes Center outreach director, said traditional methods of treating diabetes function through physician-patient relationships after diagnosis, and treatments can get costly. He said the center seeks to help reduce the rates of diabetes in Texas. ‘While it's important for us to have clinical treatment of diabetes, we know that we're not going to be able to manage this crisis just by pursuing a clinical treatment strategy,' Smith said. ‘What we want is a strategy that prevents people from getting diabetes in the first place, or if they have diabetes, controlling it through lifestyle