#MasterLab 2015 – Kim Vlasnik

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Kim Vlasnik is a diabetes rockstar. She is adored in the patient community for her humor, her strength, and her genuine voice. She is known for her widely-read blog Texting My Pancreas, for her clever cartoon artwork, and, since 2011, for the You Can Do This Project – a movement born from an idea that people with diabetes could benefit from the encouragement of our peers. In 2012 and 2014, Kim was selected as an ePatient Scholar at Stanford’s Medicine X Conference. Her powerful 2014 ePatient ignite! Talk at MedX has garnered over 6,000 views on YouTube and is one of the most candid and moving talks on diabetes available on video.

#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 – Melissa Schooley

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Melissa Schooley serves as one of Medtronic’s senior lobbyists, leading their legislative and corporate strategy. Managing their federal diabetes advocacy, she works closely with the Medtronic diabetes business unit to ensure customers have access to their latest therapy innovations, and collaborates with diabetes stakeholders and advocates on legislative and administrative solutions. Currently, she’s engaged in efforts to expand access to continuous glucose monitoring therapy. Melissa has over 15 years of lobbying experience, ranging from a Fortune 500 government affairs office supporting commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid markets, to serving in the US Senate as a Law Clerk on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight.

#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 – Andrew Zebrak

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As Executive Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy at Boehringer Ingelheim, Andrew Zebrak’s job is to analyze complex federal and state legislative and regulatory policy and translate it into actionable strategy for the business he serves. Issues of access, reimbursement, coverage – the issues that so many of our grassroots advocates have but a cursory understanding of – these are the topics of his trade at the highest intersections of government and industry. Prior to joining BI almost ten years ago, Andrew consulted with leading pharma and Fortune 500 companies on federal healthcare legislation, regulations, and government programs. In this talk, he lends us his expert analysis as we consider our opportunities to act more locally.

#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 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!

Everybody Talks Diabetes Podcast Mike Lawson Corinna Cornejo

Episode 1: Advocacy

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This is the first episode of Everybody Talks: A Diabetes Hands Foundation Podcast. Each week we publish a conversation between Mike Lawson who lives with type 1 diabetes and Corinna Cornejo who lives with type 2 diabetes. The topics revolve around things that are important to people touched by diabetes and include interviews from our archive from experts in these fields.

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Everybody Talks Diabetes Podcast Mike Lawson Corinna Cornejo

TuDiabetes Live interview with Christel Marchand Aprigliano, creator of The Diabetes Unconference

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We’ll talk with Christel Marchand Aprigliano, founder of The Diabetes UnConference, which will be held at the Flamingo Las Vegas from March 13-15, 2015.
The Diabetes UnConference follows the “unconference” concept of peer-to-peer idea exchange made popular by the tech community. The actual agenda is set the first morning of the conference, drawing from the needs and desires of the attendees and discussions will focus on the psychosocial aspects of living with diabetes.
An “unconference” allows participants to create and moderate the agenda, allowing for a wide variety of topics and viewpoints that might never be covered in a traditional conference. Using various sharing methods that focus on drawing out responses from all attendees, those in the room learn from each other in a peer to peer environment.
This conference welcomes all adults with diabetes.Those with diabetes, regardless of type (Type 1, Type 2, LADA) all have thoughts and feelings about living well with diabetes. All of us have fears about complications. All of us have ideas about how to live well with diabetes. All of us want to feel good about ourselves and stay healthy. None of our pancreases work like they should. Diabetes is diabetes. We can all learn from each other.
Register to attend The Diabetes UnConference!

Diagnosed at twelve with Type 1 diabetes, Christel works with other prominent advocates to heighten public awareness and create meaningful positive changes in the diabetes community. She devotes her efforts to many diabetes advocacy avenues, including: Strip Safely, a grassroots advocacy program for blood glucose meter accuracy; The Diabetes Collective, Inc., which produces The DiabetesUnConference; and Diabetes Advocates, a program of the Diabetes Hands Foundation. You can find her thoughts on life with diabetes as a lifestyle columnist at dlife.com, as a contributor at A Sweet Life, and on her personal blog, www.theperfectd.com.

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