03/14/2024    Lawrence Rubin, DPM

Kudos to AMERX (Ted Mihok, DPM)

I was very happy to learn from his PM News post
that Dr. Ted Mihok is a fellow member of Lions
Clubs International. I applaud his and his club
members' and AMERX's outstanding charitable wound
care project. And, I would like to add some
information about Lions Clubs. Probably, there is
at least one local club close to where everyone
reading this lives.

I became a member of Lions Clubs International
(LCI) in1965, in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb
of Chicago. I have moved my residence several times
since then, and wherever I have moved, there was a
local Lions Club that welcomed me. There are about
1.4 million members worldwide, and each member is
dedicated to volunteerism and community service.
Although a main Lions program has always been
helping diabetic patients prevent blindness due to
retinopathy, in 2010, with the volunteered help of
dedicated Lion members in Las Vegas, Nevada, and
also Nevada podiatric collaborating members of the
LEAP Alliance, LCI recognized the, "Lions Hunt for
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) Free Foot
Screening Program."

Free podiatrist-supervised foot screening events at
health fairs and cooperating hospitals and provider
office locations enable early detection of DPN and
assistance in receiving follow up risk assessment
and necessary preventive care. Uninsured and
underinsured patients and those others unable to
afford care are helped to find optimal treatment
through community agencies.

Recently, the LEAP Alliance has received donor
support for establishing "LEAP & Lions" community
based free foot screening programs worldwide. The
most recent addition is the Enugu Nigeria
Metropolitan Lions Club, organized and now
operational through the dedicated work of Lion Kalu
Confidence. She is eager to remotely help
podiatrists in the USA work with their local Lions
Clubs to train volunteer members to be, "Lions Foot
Soldiers Fighting in the War Against Diabetes."

Lawrence Rubin, DPM, Las Vegas, NV

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