Perspectives Summer/Fall 2016

12 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions in young people. A sedentary, technology-based lifestyle, coupled with fast-food diets, is contributing to the challenge. In an effort to combat this public health crisis, the CHCS physical therapy, physician assistant, and occupational therapy programs completed the 11th year of adolescent diabetes screenings at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC). The center is a vocational-technical high school with a primarily Hispanic student body of more than 1,500 students. Over the years, CHCS students and faculty members have screened thousands of adolescents for diabetes risk. In the 2015–2016 academic year, more than 180 NSU students and faculty members screened approximately 700 students in a single morning. It is long known that BY DEBRA F. STERN, D.P.T., D.B.A., M.S.M., PT, CEEAA, DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL EDUCATION AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, PHYSICAL THERAPY—FORT LAUDERDALE. Interprofessional Education and Collaboratio Spotlight Obesity Diabetes Combating in Teens and