Dr. Sheri Colberg is an author, exercise physiologist, and professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, as well as an adjunct professor of internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, she specializes in research on diabetes and exercise. She has authored 9 books, 11 book chapters, and over 250 articles.

Dr. Colberg has over 44 years’ worth of practical experience as a (type 1) diabetic exerciser. She recently chaired a position stand on “Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes” jointly for the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association and serves on the ADA’s Prevention Committee. She is an avid recreational exerciser who enjoys swimming, biking, walking, fitness machines, weight training, hiking, skiing, and yard work.

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When Phil Southerland was seven-months-old, he lost ten pounds in a week, his body was limp and his breathing slowed to what his mother called a “death rattle.” Rushing him to the ER, she was informed that tiny Phil displayed the youngest case of diabetes on record in the world at that time.
Blindness, kidney failure and death were all predicted for him by age twenty-five. Twenty-nine years later, not only is Phil alive and well but as the founder of Team Type 1, he and his team of championship cyclists — many of them diabetics—have become health and fitness role models for people the world over.
Together, they have taken on some of the most challenging endurance events in the world, including winning the Race Across America—a grueling 3,000-mile endurance competition—twice. Today, Phil continues to lead Team Type 1 as its professional cycling team, among one of the top 30 teams in the world, races toward an invite to the world’s top cycling event, the Tour de France in 2012. Leading the pack is a serious challenge for any athlete, but for Phil and his teammates, it presents two daily battles: one to stay in razor-sharp race-fit condition, the other, to stay alive.

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Lorraine Porcaro has been a Certified Diabetes Educator since 1996. She is the Diabetes Clinical Coordinator at a 383 bed medical center in upstate New York. In addition to working on her master’s degree in Diabetes Education and Management, she is the Forums Co-Manager for the DiabetesSisters website, which offers peer-to-peer support for women with diabetes.

This is part of our month-long series of mini-classes presented by students of diabetes education on the TuDiabetes homepage.
The classes will be broadcast live on the TuDiabetes homepage (no passwords or special links needed, just go to the homepage at the time of the event), with an open chat box below where you can post your questions and comments for each presenter.
This is an opportunity for two-way communication between the DOC (Diabetes Online Community) and our care providers. They get to teach us a bit about a topic they believe is interesting and important for people with diabetes, and we get to ask questions and give positive, constructive feedback about their approach! It’s a true opportunity to affect how these providers will care for their patients with diabetes in the future… don’t miss it!!

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Kathleen Graham has been a home care nurse in New York City for 16 years. Her interest in diabetes education stems from her own experience as a Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) participant and from having an expert, caring CDE guide her through two pregnancies. Kathleen lives in NYC with her husband and two amazing sons.

This is part of our month-long series of mini-classes presented by students of diabetes education on the TuDiabetes homepage.
The classes will be broadcast live on the TuDiabetes homepage (no passwords or special links needed, just go to the homepage at the time of the event), with an open chat box below where you can post your questions and comments for each presenter.
This is an opportunity for two-way communication between the DOC (Diabetes Online Community) and our future care providers. They get to teach us a bit about a topic they believe is interesting and important for people with diabetes, and we get to ask questions and give positive, constructive feedback about their approach! It’s a true opportunity to affect how these providers will care for their patients with diabetes in the future… don’t miss it!!

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Karen Shidler has been a Certified Diabetes Educator since 1996. She is the program coordinator and provides out-patient and in-patient education at Logansport Memorial Hospital in north central Indiana. She also organizes diabetes support group meetings and other special events such as a diabetes health fair. Karen is also a trainer for insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors. In this mini-class she will be talking about the connection between diabetes and sleep apnea.

This is part of our month-long series of mini-classes presented by students of diabetes education on the TuDiabetes homepage.
The classes will be broadcast live on the TuDiabetes homepage (no passwords or special links needed, just go to the homepage at the time of the event), with an open chat box below where you can post your questions and comments for each presenter.
This is an opportunity for two-way communication between the DOC (Diabetes Online Community) and our future care providers. They get to teach us a bit about a topic they believe is interesting and important for people with diabetes, and we get to ask questions and give positive, constructive feedback about their approach! It’s a true opportunity to affect how these providers will care for their patients with diabetes in the future… don’t miss it!!

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Ryan spent most of 2000-2009 working for healthcare technology company NexCura, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2005 and then sold to US Oncology at the end of 2009. NexCura has educational tools that are embedded on a variety of websites, including several of the most prominent advocacy groups. As Director of Product Development, he developed completely new product lines in clinical trial recruitment, market research, and physician messaging.
Corengi is dedicated to helping individuals discover more about clinical trials that may be appropriate for them. Corengi is committed to building a comprehensive, free, and interactive platform for a variety of diseases. This platform will allow stakeholders within the clinical trials community (investigators, site personnel, sponsors, and disease advocates) to engage with potential enrollees and educate them about specific clinical trials.

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John Walsh and Ruth Roberts co-authored the book Pumping Insulin, now in its fifth edition. This book is a great resource for folks currently using insulin pump therapy, or considering it.

John Walsh is a Physician Assistant and Diabetes Clinical Specialist who has provided clinical care to thousands of people with diabetes for more than 30 years in a wide variety of clinical settings, including private practice, HMO and university settings.He has pumped for 30 years and has worn almost every insulin pump releaseed during that time. He has also started hundreds of people on pumps and provided their clinical care.

Ruth Roberts, MA, is CEO of Diabetes Services, Inc, Diabetes Mall and Torrey Pines Press, and a widely-read medical writer and editor. She has served as a corporate training administrator, technical writer, and instructional designer for 20 years in San Diego. She has coauthored several books on diabetes, edited a weekly internet newsletter, “Diabetes This Week”, and written numerous articles on Diabetes.

www.diabetesnet.com/dmall/ for getting PI5 at only $19.55, plus they have an e-book version coming the the next week of two!

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