Live interview with Lisa Hepner, documentary director/producer

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For the past 18 years Lisa Hepner, Canadian-born journalist, has produced films and programs for Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, A&E, PBS, Lifetime, Discovery, MTV, TLC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2003, Lisa directed Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines that marked her documentary feature directorial debut. Shot internationally, this documentary profiles the unheralded work of women peace builders. Lisa has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 22 years. Lisa and her partner Guy Mossman currently run Vox Pop Films, an award-winning production company based in Los Angeles. (www.voxpopfilms.tv)

Check out the website for Lisa’s latest endeavor: The Human Trial

The Human Trial tracks the high stakes race to cure Type 1 diabetes. The verite documentary enters three of America’s top labs, giving viewers an inside look at the drive and competition to make medical history at a clinical trial in 2014. If the cure works, one team will have changed millions of lives, forever.

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TuDiabetes Live interview with Sébastien Sasseville, motivational speaker with T1D

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Sebastien Sasseville was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2002. In 2008, he became the first Canadian with type 1 diabetes to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Several years later Sebastien competed in the mythical Sahara Race in Egypt, a 250km self-supported ultra-marathon.

From mount Everest to the Sahara, Sebastien Sasseville had to reinvent himself to succeed.

Sebastien obtained a Communications degree from Laval University in Quebec City, and has dedicated his career to inspiring and motivating audiences of all kinds. A climber, endurance athlete and Ironman, Sebastien has delivered more than 100 keynotes addresses since 2005. He is now a member of Team Novo Nordisk.

Sebastien is a charismatic speaker who provokes deep reflection and drives audiences to action. Using his fascinating life story, he motivates work teams, enables them to overcome all obstacles, and guides them to new summits.

In the spirit of sharing the dream, Sebastien has led groups of teens living with type 1 diabetes to the summit of the highest peak in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro (2005) and to Mount Everest Base camp in Nepal (2007).

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with the creators of the Bionic Pancreas

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Drs. Damiano and Russell are part of a collaborative group from Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital working together to make automated blood glucose control a reality. Engineers from Boston University have developed a closed-loop artificial pancreas blood glucose control system that uses frequent measurements of blood glucose concentration along with subcutaneous delivery of both rapid-acting insulin and glucagon (to raise blood glucose, if necessary) as directed by a computer algorithm. The artificial endocrine pancreas automatically makes a new decision about insulin and glucagon dosing every five minutes. The system is being tested in people with type 1 diabetes at Massachusetts General Hospital, with results recently published in Science Translational Medicine.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with Dr. Jason Baker, founder of Marjorie’s Fund

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Marjorie’s Fund envisions a world where all people with type 1 diabetes thrive, and the day when type 1 diabetes is cured.

Mission

The mission of Marjorie’s Fund: The Type 1 Diabetes Global Initiative, is to empower adolescents and adults living with type 1 diabetes in resource poor settings to not only survive their diagnosis, but to effectively control their diabetes and to thrive.

In keeping with our mission, the projects that Marjorie’s Fund supports will focus on three aims:

1) Resources: To assist adolescents and adults with type 1 diabetes residing in resource poor settings obtain access to sustainable sources of insulin, glucose testing supplies and a lifestyle conducive to tight control of diabetes.

2) Education: To promote education toward preventing health complications associated with poorly-controlled type 1 diabetes. Such education will be targeted to healthcare providers, patients, and patient’s family members and support structure.

3) Research: To support research of understudied populations aimed at improving the epidemiology of type 1 diabetes, and toward the prevention, treatment and cure of type 1 diabetes.

These aims of Marjorie’s Fund are designed to achieve specific outcomes for patients with type 1 diabetes.

Increased survival rates due to early and accurate diagnosis
Enhanced health from fewer or delayed onset of complications
Improved quality of life and life expectancy

Expanded, global epidemiological database with improved quality and completeness
Acceleration of advances in preventing and curing type 1 diabetes

Core Values

All people with type 1 diabetes have the right to the treatment resources necessary for them to thrive
Sustainable access to type 1 diabetes resources is essential
Education is vital to the treatment of type 1 diabetes
Research of understudied populations is critical to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes
Collaboration amongst type 1 diabetes advocates enriches patient care

Marjorie ultimately succumbed to her complications, but with the help of Marjorie’s Fund others need not.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with David Lee Strasberg

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David Lee Strasberg is the Creative Director and CEO of The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, with campuses in New York and West Hollywood.

David manages and supervises staff, develops curriculum and executive produces all plays and short films created under the auspices of the Institute, all while mentoring students on their craft and their careers. Recently, David has begun travelling to other cities to hold acting seminars to promote Method Acting.

David also has a consulting business, coaching executives and other high-level professionals to become more confident leaders and public speakers, using techniques similar to those that he uses with actors.

Son of famed acting teacher, Lee Strasberg, David grew up in New York City in the vibrant and creative atmospheres of both the Institute and the Actor’s Studio. He sat in on many of his father’s classes in close proximity to many of the most famous actors of our time. As a child actor, David participated in various shows at the Institute and at the Actor’s Studio.

David attended Collegiate High School in Manhattan and then went on to graduate from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations and American History. He received his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Prior to joining the Institute, David spent a number years in the political arena. During Bill Clinton’s first presidential term, David worked the Small Business Administration under Erskine Bowles, who later went on to become the White House Chief of Staff.

Following the Northridge earthquake in 1994, David accepted a position in Mayor Richard Riordan’s office on his Economic Development team, where he was charged with helping to facilitate the receipt of Federal relief funds. David went on to hold several positions in Mayor Riordan’s office, including roles on his Policy and Budget teams, overseeing the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Information & Technology Agency, among others.

David’s journey with diabetes began in 1986, when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a 15 year-old. He became an early adopter of the insulin pump in 1999. In 2005, his experience with diabetes took on a new dimension when his 10 month-old son, Sawyer, was also diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE aka Low Carb Dietitian

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Franziska Spritzler is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who is passionate about nutrition and believes a low-carb, whole foods approach works best for many people with diabetes. Her website, Low Carb Dietitian, provides information and guidance on carbohydrate restriction for diabetes and weight management. She lives in Huntington Beach, CA, with her husband and works as an outpatient dietitian at the Long Beach VA Medical Center.

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Stump the Guru!! Conversation with Gary Scheiner, CDE

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There were some technical glitches during this video chat. The video cuts in and out, but we still feel it was a great chat. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Bring your toughest diabetes questions!! Gary is up for a challenge.

Gary is a certified diabetes educator, insulin-pump and continuous glucose monitor user and trainer, and Masters-level exercise physiologist. He serves on the advisory boards of several diabetes device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies; volunteers for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Diabetes Exercise & Sports Association, American Diabetes Association, and Setebaid diabetes camps; and serves on the faculty of Children With Diabetes. Gary teaches and art and science of blood-glucose balancing to people with diabetes throughout the world from his private practice, Integrated Diabetes Services as well as through his online school of higher learning for insulin users, Type 1 University.

Join us on the homepage of TuDiabetes for a live presentation and question-and-answer session with Gary Scheiner, founder of Integrated Diabetes Services and author of Think Like a Pancreas, The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting, and now Until there is a Cure: the Latest and Greatest in Diabetes Self-Care

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Live Interview: Islet Cell Transplantation with Drs Gebe and Vernon

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In a major collaborative effort led by matrix biologist Robert Vernon and immunologist John Gebe, scientists at the Benaroya Research Institute are developing a Bioengineered Implant (BI) for treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D) — an autoimmune disease. The BI will combine purified islets of Langerhans (the tiny, insulin-producing units of the pancreas) with innovative structural supports made of natural biomaterials.

The BI is designed to provide a controlled microenvironment that promotes the survival and function of the transplanted islets and includes: 1) a permeable extracellular matrix (ECM) hydrogel to provide physical support for the islets and ingrowing vasculature, 2) a sustained-release component that will deliver a set of bioactive compounds that promote islet survival, vascularization, and immunoprotection, and 3) a supportive scaffold to retain the islets, ECM hydrogel, and sustained-release component within a protective, unified structure. The combination of these design elements in a single device represents a novel approach to islet transplantation. The overall goal of this research is to produce a BI that can be implanted into patients in a minimally-invasive manner (perhaps under the skin) and which would eliminate the need for exogenous insulin therapy.

Description of study in researcher’s own words
Islet transplantation can be successful where the donor of the islets and the recipient of the transplant are genetically identical (as in syngeneic strains of mice). However, islet engraftment fails in human patients with T1D as a consequence of: 1) poor shortterm survival of the islets as a result of post-implantation stress, and 2) long-term immune-mediated rejection of the islets caused by tissue mismatches between donor and recipient (alloimmune rejection) and continuance of autoimmunity. Our working hypothesis for this project is that a spectrum of bioactive compounds that promote islet survival, islet vascularization, and protection of islets from host immune attack can be combined in a single device. Importantly, the influence of these compounds would be restricted to the BI and the region immediately surrounding it (using sustainedrelease technology), thereby limiting harmful systemic effects. Advanced versions of the BI might also be used as platforms for patient-derived stem cell transplantation, incorporating bioactive compounds that would promote the survival and differentiation of stem cells into insulin-producing cells.

Roles of the BRI researchers
Dr. Robert Vernon is a matrix biologist and bioengineer who provides the expertise in designing the BI and the system for sustained release of bioactive compounds. His understanding of the importance of revascularization to islet survival is instrumental to the success of this project. Dr. John Gebe is an immunologist with expertise in animal models of T1D. He conducts the hands-on testing of the device in vivo and also determines which immunological systems can be targeted to promote long-term protection of islets from allo- and autoimmune rejection.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview Erin Spineto, author of Islands and Insulin

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Erin Spineto, a UC San Diego graduate and science teacher, works with non-profit Insulindependence in her quest to inspire fellow Type I diabetics to overcome limitations. Determined to challenge herself as a Type I diabetic, she chronicles her solo sailing adventures and the ups and downs of life as a diabetic. She and her husband, Tony, live in San Diego, California with their two children.

Islands and Insulin is the story of a girl, given a boat, one hundred nautical miles of ocean, and way too much caffeine to reflect on how an incorrigible disease has altered her voyage into adulthood, all wrapped inside a diabetes survival manual. It is a cross between the humor of Steve Markley’s Publish This Book, the travel journal of Jimmy Buffett’s A Pirate Looks at Fifty, and the sailing of Pete Goss’s Close to the Wind minus the sixty knot winds, fifty foot waves, below freezing temperatures, and the slick escape from death… hopefully.

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Conversation with D-parents Dayton and Sheri Coles

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Dayton and Sheri’s daughter, Emily, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1978, at the age of 3. No insulin pumps, no continuous glucose monitors, no home blood glucose monitors… Emily was treated with 1-2 daily injections, a strict diet, Ketostix and crossed fingers. Each Wednesday morning before school, Dayton took his daughter to the local lab for bloodwork, at that time the only way to assess blood glucose. Following this, they went to McDonald’s for pancakes and sausage. Rewards were important…
Come hear what it was like to raise a child with type 1 diabetes at this time, how Dayton and Sheri navigated the challenges of teaching her to care for herself as she grew, of allowing her to assume independence, of explaining to her non-diabetic siblings why she needed different attention than they did… AND how they cared for themselves through it all.

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TuDiabetes Live interview with author Gary Scheiner

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Gary is a certified diabetes educator, insulin-pump and continuous glucose monitor user and trainer, and Masters-level exercise physiologist. He serves on the advisory boards of several diabetes device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies; volunteers for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Diabetes Exercise & Sports Association, American Diabetes Association, and Setebaid diabetes camps; and serves on the faculty of Children With Diabetes. Gary teaches and art and science of blood-glucose balancing to people with diabetes throughout the world from his private practice, Integrated Diabetes Services as well as through his online school of higher learning for insulin users, Type 1 University.

Join us on the homepage of TuDiabetes for a live presentation and question-and-answer session with 
Gary Scheiner, founder of 
Integrated Diabetes Services and author of 
Think Like a Pancreas, 
The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting, and now Until there is a Cure: the Latest and Greatest in Diabetes Self-Care

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Uploaded by: Diabetes Hands Foundation
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