Delivering Culturally Competent Care: Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Diverse Populations

Current Author/Editor:

Randa Kutob, MD
Dr. Kutob is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson and Director of the Office of Continuing Medical Education. She is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine with extensive teaching, clinical work, and research in the arena of cross-cultural care and chronic disease prevention and treatment.

Disclosure: Dr. Kutob states that she does not have any financial arrangements that could constitute a conflict of interest.

Original Authors:

John Bormanis, PhD is a freelance writer and medical editor. He received his doctorate in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of Arizona.

Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, MD, MA is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, as well as Associate Medical Director of West Side Community Health Services in St. Paul, MN. She has extensive experience in multi-cultural curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation. She is a published author in the area of culturally competent diabetes care for Hmong adults and is also co-editor of a multicultural case book on culturally responsive care, Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Family and Western Providers.

Randa Kutob, MD Dr. Kutob is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson and Director of the Office of Continuing Medical Education. She is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine with extensive teaching, clinical work, and research in the arena of cross-cultural care and chronic disease prevention and treatment.

Colette Marie Sims, PhD is a cultural-medical anthropologist currently appointed as Research Associate and Faculty in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She is also an NIH-Post-Doctoral Fellow for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She specializes in research among racial/ethnic populations and health education to increase understandings of the socio-cultural factors that influence the receipt of optimal care and individual health behavior.