Slocum-Dickson physician to serve as educator for Diabetes Fellowship Program at MVHS – Central New York Business Journal

NEW HARTFORD — Slocum-Dickson Medical Group recently announced that its physician Dayal Raja will serve as an educator for the new Diabetes Fellowship Program at Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS).

The program seeks to prepare physicians to be trained dialectologists with experience in utilizing the latest diabetes technology. There is a rise in diabetes across the country, and the need for diabetes specialists continues to grow, Slocum-Dickson noted. To help meet the demand, Dr. Raja, a board-certified endocrinologist at the medical group, is now a distinguished full professor for the Diabetes Fellowship Program. This one-year post-graduate program prepares fellows to become trained to provide comprehensive diabetes management.

“As a busy endocrinologist, I see firsthand the need for additional diabetes specialists,” said Dr. Raja said in the Dec. 18 announcement. “Joining the Diabetes Fellowship Program allows me to help train and mentor diabetes fellows to fill the need.”

While continuing to provide expert care to his patients at Slocum-Dickson, Dr. Raja will now help shape the next generation of dialectologists in the MVHS Diabetes Fellowship Program. Slocum-Dickson added that it “is proud to support Dr. Raja in this endeavor, as it aligns with our commitment to improved health and enhancing the well-being of the communities we serve through service, care, and education.”

Slocum-Dickson Medical Group started in 1938 with three physicians. Today, the physician-owned multi-specialty group practice employs more than 100 health-care providers and several hundred staff members. As the group continues to expand, the focus is still on patient-centered, physician-directed, quality care, it added.