About Us
Healthbeam
Healthbeam Diabetes and Wellness Center was established by a provider living with diabetes, who understands your life and daily struggles with diabetes, your challenges, and what you go through just to make it through the day. Our practice beliefs that there is success in baby steps therefore, will meet each person where they are. We are here to guide you through making consistent efforts and investing in yourself to maintain a healthy long life free of complications of diabetes and optimizing your health wellbeing.
Our Vision
To care, educate, inform and empower individuals and communities against diabetes, its complications and promote total wellness unique to each individual person.
Our Mission
To provide tailored individualized care that meets the needs of each individual, their family and community to enable a healthy quality of life
MEET OUR TEAM
Dr. Adeola Akindana, DNP CRNP, CDCES
Dr. Adeola Akindana, DNP, CRNP, CDCES is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. She received her Bachelors and Masters in Nursing from University of Maryland, Baltimore in Health Policy and Nursing Informatics and Doctor of Nursing Practice as Family Nurse Practitioner in 2016 from University of Michigan, Flint. She has been a nurse since 1989, but dedicated her career to diabetes care since 2005. She worked in diabetes clinical research before becoming programs coordinator at the renowned Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate in Maryland. She is an Inpatient Diabetes Consultant in an area hospital. Dr. Akindana is also very involved professionally. She is an author, editor and reviewer of professional diabetes journals, board member of professional diabetes organizations, consulted with CDC, but most importantly a passionate educator who enjoys teaching nurses, medical residents, patients and the community importance of diabetes care and its management to ensure long term healthy and positive outcomes. When not working she enjoys Netflix binging, reading, praying, and hanging out with her grandchildren.
ABIADE OGUNSOLA
Abiade Ogunsola is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). She is the Founder of Restoring Health Nutrition. A private practice that provides nutrition counseling to people of different age groups and demographics. She has experience working with different medical conditions with expertise in diabetes care. As a diabetes educator, she is passionate about providing patients with proven tools to manage the disease and strategies to delay the disease onset. She has experience working with people of different age groups and a range of ethnic backgrounds In addition to her dietitian and diabetes training, she also has culinary training and is knowledgeable about different ethnic foods.
Outside of her career, she enjoys reading, traveling, baking and spending time with her family.