This American Diabetes Awareness Month, Dr. Kenneth Izuora and Dr. Sanna Fatima highlight Nevada’s need for more endocrinologists. It makes sense to check in now with Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV‘s Dr. Kenneth Izuora and Dr. Sanna Fatima, physicians dedicated to wiping out diabetes – November is American Diabetes Awareness Month, a time when the CDC estimates that a staggering 38 million Americans of all ages have the endocrine disorder commonly known as diabetes.

Fatima, a Pakistani immigrant who completed her internal medicine residency at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, says her grandmother’s death from diabetes had much to do with her pursuit of a career in medicine. The increasing number of people around the world with the disease – the World Health Organization says the number of people who died with diabetes and kidney disease due to diabetes rose to 2 million in 2019 – further served to convince her to specialize in the care of people with the disorder as well other endocrine conditions. (Both Fatima and Izuora estimate about half their patients have diabetes).

“My passion for medicine began in my childhood when I witnessed the tragic consequences of inadequate healthcare,” Fatima says. “This happened when I was in the second grade. My grandmother, who lived in a rural village, suffered from diabetes and kidney failure. She did not have access to proper medical treatment or diabetes education. No doctor took the time to explain to her the lifestyle changes she needed to make to control her diabetes better. This led to her kidneys failing and she passed away at age 60. Her death left a deep impression on me, and I vowed to become a physician who could prevent such needless suffering.”

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