We've been consistently blown forth by the awe-inspiring diabetes advocates who enforce for our yearly DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship Contest, and this year is no exception! Remember, the aim of this annual contest is to "crowdsource patient needs" and plug employed patients directly into the innovation landscape.

Each Spring, we take applications from authorized PWDs (people with diabetes) and quick caregivers to portion out their passion for giving a voice to day by day diabetes challenges and unmet needs. The top entrants incur an "e-Tolerant Scholarship" to go to our DiabetesMine Innovation Height that takes place in Northern California each Drop away. Our winners act as "delegates" for the longanimous community, expressing our of necessity and desires to decision-makers in pharma, medtech design, software and app development, Greco-Roman deity device ordinance, national advocacy groups and more.

2018 Diabetes Advocates Extraordinaire

Over the past several weeks we've enjoyed interviewing each of our 2018 PV Contest winners, who will Be attending our annual Innovation Years next week, connected Nov. 1-2 in San Francisco.

Nowadays's our encounter to share the golf links to our chats with each of these tremendous advocates, in which they share their personal stories and POVs on technology, creation, advocacy and what they believe can be done better.

Please enjoy clicking connected the names of each of these winners, to access their in-depth interviews (registered here in alphabetised order):

  • Kamil Armacki– a T1D student in the UK, studying Accounting and Finance at Manchester Metropolitan University. He's been involved in several CGM focus groups, and a yr agone, decided to start his own YouTube channel called Nerdabetic, where he discusses and reviews new diabetes technology. He writes: "I bear newly been designated to be a impairment mentor at my university and I will be mentoring a group of 10 disabled students starting this September. Additionally, highly innovative company MedAngel that makes Bluetooth enabled insulin thermometers appointive Maine to take part in Young Patient Advocate broadcast… therefore, I am exit to Vienna this July to do my advocacy training."
  • Cindy Campaniello  – a T2D in New House of York, who's active with the DiabetesSisters group for women with diabetes. She's a former Sales and Camber Coach World Health Organization says she was fired for diabetes in her last sales farm out (!). She writes: "Type 2's need help. Desperately! … CGMs are needed for type 2's. I'm tired of fix's informative my Diabetes Sisters to psychometric test in the first light only… (whereas) seeing your numbers climb from your dieting would influence them more. Support is key to management."
  • Phyllisa Deroze  – an Land living in the United Arab Emirates, who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2011. She's an Assistant Professor of English Literature by day and a diabetes advocate around the clock, blogging at diagnosedNOTdefeated.com. Her academic enquiry highlights feminist writers, but she aver she's "sounding to move into medical narrative so that I can merge my academic interests with my protagonism."
  • Moira McCarthy  – this Massachusetts D-Mum is a well-far-famed author, author, and speaker in the diabetes advocacy space. She tells us: "I have long been passionate some non sensible curing type 1 and developing better tools to treat it, but also approximately hortative folks to live well with IT AS we move toward those goals. In recent old age, I've noticed a immense uptick in fear in the community, particularly among caregivers and parents of folk with T1D. I've been working on a concept and take over begun tongued to folks (and device manufacturers) about it. I call it 'Thoughtful Innovation; Compassionate Integrating.' What I mean by that is across the board embracing a strategy of building confidence as we roll unstylish new tools and programs."
  • Terry O'Rourke – a now-out former avionics technician for a major commercial airline from Portland, OR. He was diagnosed with LADA (potential ketosis-prone diabetes in adults) at age 30 in 1984, and has seen many an changes in diabetes tech and tools — from archaean '80s urine glucose strips and insulin pumping, to finding patronize in the online community, and now using a CGM and even building his ain homemade closed loop system. He also lives with a 10-year-old diabetes alert Canis familiaris named Norm. "We need an industry of compassion, extraordinary that is confident sufficient to show unweathered adopters that yes, these tools make life easier but no, you won't be lingering connected catastrophe for a bit without them," Terry says. btw, he also lived on a sailboat for 15 years while aliveness in the Bay Area!
  • Claire Pegg  – a CO woman who is both support with type 1 herself and caring for her 85-year-old father who has T1D and is struggling with dementia. Aside Clarence Day, she's a Materials Dispatcher at Anythink Libraries, dealing with Collecting Development and Interlibrary Loans. In her head-to-head time, she's been involved in objective research trials for sotagliflozin and the Medtronic 670G scheme. She writes: "We testament soon embody veneer a crisis because increased prime of wish has led to type 1's living far longer than they ever have. There is a very little residential care available for senior citizens with type 1, leaving families with no choices when their loved ones age. To inverted comma an executive of a nursing home I was visiting, there was no one able to manage insulin and blood sugars 'because diabetics are not so-called to live this long.'"
  • Chelcie Rice– a old T1D in Georgia who's had a longstanding gig as a diabetes comedian. He's enthusiastic about attendance our event "because as an African-American living with diabetes and as an advocate I think it's my responsibility to represent one and only of the groups of people who are largely stricken aside this degenerative sickness. For right too long there has been a incommensurate number of people of colouration participating Beaver State volunteering for health studies and panels. My ministering would hopefully inspire others same me to become partially of a solution."
  • Jim Schuler  – a T1D who's a medical student at the Jacobs School of Medicinal drug at the University at Buffalo in New York, preparing for a career as a pediatric endocrinologist. He writes: "Diabetes is the reason I am in medical school. Attending and being a counselor-at-law at diabetes camp made me choose to form my life around portion others… I wanted to do much 'just' be a physician, however, and research is an avenue to do antitrust that. One of my projects during my PhD old age is analyzing data self-possessed at diabetes camp to ameliorate hold dear children with diabetes. Additionally, I am running on an interface for better assembling of data, and keenly want to learn as much as possible about design and human factors technology as it relates to diabetes." Atomic number 2 also runs support group for teenagers and young adults with diabetes titled "D-Link" and is mostly interested in how adolescents utilize technology.
  • Stacey Simms  – this North Carolina based D-Mom is well-known as Host and producer of Diabetes Connections, a weekly podcast for and about people with T1D. She produces the show direct her company, Stacey Simms Media, and provides voice work for select commercial and industrial clients. She also runs runs a local Facebook group of 500+ parents of T1D kids, where they can ask questions and portion out tips. One of her pet peeves is ticker infusion sets: "They leak out, they bend. There is no easy way to figure out what size, work, depth and inserter is right for you – you evenhanded have to buy a case and Hope it works for you. On that point has to be a better way." Meanwhile, she's excited to share learnings from our Summit with her listening audience.

We look progressive to meeting complete of these amazing folks personally next calendar week, and of course copulative them with manufacture, provider and regulatory folk in attendance, to "bring the real" on what it's wish to deal with all things diabetes on a day-to-mean solar day basis.

We're super excited for this year's Fall innovation program, occurrence on Nov. 1-2 at UCSF's Mission Bay tree biotech conference center. This year, we're really combining our Innovation Summit and D-Data ExChange technology forum under the umbrella of a refreshing virgin learning political platform titled DiabetesMine University (DMU). Should equal an enriching educational and networking experience for all!

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