Today we’re chatting with another of our awesome winners of this year’s Patient Voices Contest for our DiabetesMine Innovation Summit: Kathleen Peterson, a 29-year-old nanny and soon-to-be graduate student from Seattle, WA, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 12 years. Kathleen is intimately familiar with the power of diabetes technology, having participated in a clinical trial for the Artificial Pancreas Project.
Kathleen shares with us her thoughts on the importance of device durability…
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David Weingard, a 48-year-old type 1 PWD from New York, is known in the D-community as the founder and CEO of Fit4D, a popular organization that brings together PWDs with CDEs, nutritionists and fitness coaches to help patients live healthier with diabetes. Fit4D uses virtual coaching, phone calls and videos to bring education to patients where they need it, so David knows a thing or two about diabetes and technology! David is also an avid…
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AmyT on
August 14, 2012
This is the third in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the 2012 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were announced back in June. This winner brings with her not only great innovation ideas for diabetes devices, but a unique perspective from the Pacific Islander minority community that’s so affected by type 2.
Ivoni Nash, who lives in Utah, tells us what it’s like for those in this minority community, and how diabetes technology might…
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