#MasterLab 2015 – Emily Coles

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For the last four years Emily Coles has served Diabetes Hands Foundation as our program manager, and now as Head of Communities, leading the day-to-day operations of our two online communities TuDiabetes.org and EsTuDiabetes.org. Emily is known in our community for her warmth, honesty and grace as well as her talent as a professional ballroom dancer and dance instructor.

Emily was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 3 and has a background in public health and holds degrees in Biology and Epidemiology. She is committed to outreach and actively fundraises for causes related to AIDS, women’s health, and diabetes, having recently ridden her bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the AIDS Lifecycle ride to raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS.

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

#MasterLab 2015 – Thomas Lee

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The signal to noise ratio in social media is a topic that deserves a lot of attention. The cacophony of voices in the space can be deafening and ineffectual. Fortunately for us, we have Thomas Lee. He is co-founder of Symplur and The Healthcare Hashtag Project and self-proclaimed “curious by nature” analyst. He knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

His current passion is the role that social media plays in the evolving healthcare landscape and in the emerging field of healthcare social media analytics. Sifting through the millions of diabetes-related tweets they have captured, his unique insights into how we are advocating in the digital space – and why we should even be concerned with social media – will help us avoid mistakes and use these platforms more intelligently. #MasterLab. #Diabetes. #Advocacy. #GiveItUpForThomasLee.

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

#MasterLab 2015 – Amy O’Connor

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Amy O’Connor is a health care advocacy leader with tremendous vision and insight about how we leverage the digital space. As Senior Director of Digital and Social Media Communications at Eli Lilly & Company, Amy developed the LillyPad blog, one of the highest quality blogs in the diabetes industry. She also leads the corporate social media strategy with such a clear vision that she revolutionized how the company defines itself online. She is an expert in public policy and she knows social media platforms you haven’t even heard of yet. This is a woman who speaks in 140 character soundbites!

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

#MasterLab 2015 – Marina Tsaplina

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Marina Tsaplina is a puppeteer, clown and kinesthetic performing artist whose mission of helping us all achieve “joyful health” led to the founding of a unique group, The Betes Organization. They seek to understand the meanings of chronic conditions in our lives through unique, playful, and un-scary methods. This talk comes from an engaging storyteller, a crusader of inner demons, and a person living a complex relationship with her ‘Betes.

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

#MasterLab 2015 – Stacey Simms

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Stacey Simms is an award-winning broadcaster and speaker, most recently working as the Healthy Living Reporter for Time Warner Cable News Charlotte. For more than a decade, she hosted Charlotte’s Morning News on WBT-AM. She has been named by the Charlotte Business Journal’s Forty under 40, as well as by the Mecklenberg Times as one of their 50 Most Influential Women in Mecklenburg COunty. She is the mom of a child with type 1 diabetes and has blogged in our community since 2007. Her latest endeavor is a new podcast called Diabetes Connections, which has already seen interviews with #ShowMeYourPump Sierra Sandison, Bigfroot Biomedical’s Jeffrey Brewer, and author and advocate Kerri Sparling.

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

#MasterLab 2015 – Tom Boyer

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Tom Boyer is the Director of Government Affairs at Novo Nordisk but that doesn’t begin to convey the personality and experience he shares in this talk. He is a person with type 1 diabetes, a classic rock aficionado, and has over 25 years experience in advocacy, communications, and government relations. He has authored over 10 federal and 65 state laws and watched many signed into action by heads of state. When Tom speaks, you will always learn something.

#MasterLab is a day of advocacy held in conjunction with CWD’s Friend For Life conference in Orlando, Florida every summer. If you’re interested in joining us next summer visit: http://www.diabetesadvocates.org/MasterLab

Episode 4: Eating Out

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It’s summer, and many of us are avoiding a hot kitchen. If you’re eating out with diabetes, there are a few common pitfalls that you can learn to avoid to make the experience better.

In this episode we interview Hope Warshaw RD CDE about her book Eat Out, Eat Well: The Guide To Eating Healthy in Any Restaurant.

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Episode 3: Adventure

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This week we talk about ADVENTURE and we play an interview we did with Erin Spineto who is the founder of the Sea Peptide Academy and the authro of Islands and Insulin: A Diabetic Sailor’s Memoir.

After talking about our own commitments to start adventure, Corinna and Mike play the interview with Spineto who talks about the step-by-step guide that she’s launching that will help people choose, plan and execute an adventure and will hopefully also alleviate the stress that comes with diabetes.

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Live interview: Erin Spineto, founding Sea Peptide Adventure Academy

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The Sea Peptide Adventure Academy is an 8-week email based training program that shows you, step-by-step, how to choose, plan, and execute an adventure and how to use adventure to alleviate the stress of a chronic disease like diabetes.

Erin was diagnosed with diabetes in 1996. She has had easy years and hard years. When she ran out of motivation after fighting hard for twelve years, she turned to adventure to provide the motivation she sought starting with a 100-mile solo sail down the Florida Keys. She followed it up by leading the first ever, all type 1 diabetic team to finish the 12.5-mile Swim Around Key West and leading another type 1 team stand up paddling 100-miles up the Intracoastal Waterway in North Carolina. Erin has been featured in Diabetes Forecast Magazine, Insulin Nation, Diabetes Mine, A Sweet Life, and the Union Tribune.

Episode 2: Sierra Sandison Miss Idaho 2014

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During this episode Corinna Cornejo (type 2) and Mike Lawson (type 1) talk about Miss Idaho 2014 Sierra Sandison’s new book Sugar Linings: Finding The Bright Side Of Type 1 Diabetes as well as the value we see in spokespeople with diabetes.

Then we played an interview with Sierra Sandison where we talk about what “beauty” means and how people #ShowMeYourPump has inspired people to be out and proud about their chronic conditions.

Check out all of the EVERYBODY TALKS episodes here!

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Live interview: Preventing Early Renal Loss in People with Diabetes

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PERL (Preventing Early Renal Loss) Study.

Kidney disease is one of the leading complications of diabetes, and can lead to serious health problems, including the need for dialysis or kidney transplant. Despite many medical advances that have improved diabetes treatment, kidney disease remains a problem for many people with diabetes. New treatments are urgently needed.

PERL is a clinical trial for people with type 1 diabetes who have early signs of kidney problems. Our goal is to test a new way to reduce loss of kidney function using a safe and inexpensive medicine. We are seeking adults with type 1 diabetes to participate in our study.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Rodica Pop-Busui to learn about this study!

Find out more about the study and whether you might be eligible and how you can participate.

Live interview with former NFL player Kendall Simmons, T1D

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Kendall Simmons is a former NFL® player who played nearly 10 years after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers® as the 30th overall pick in 2002. Shortly before his second season began in 2003, Simmons was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and was not sure if he would be able to continue his football career. With the help of team doctors and a strong support network, Simmons returned to the field that same year. As he learned to manage his diabetes, he regained his strength and flourished on the football field. In 2005, he started all 16 regular season games and all 4 playoff games with the Pittsburgh Steelers®, winning Super Bowl® XL over the Seattle Seahawks®. Today, Kendall has partnered with Novo Nordisk, a global health care company dedicated to diabetes care, to raise awareness of the importance of properly managing blood glucose levels and to demonstrate that diabetes can be successfully integrated into your life and ambitions. Kendall is participating in the 16th Annual Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference in Orlando to help show kids that diabetes doesn’t have to stand in the way of pursuing their dreams.