World Diabetes Day 2013 – Sidewalk Chalk Timelapse

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The Diabetes Hands Foundation and DASH celebrated World Diabetes Day on November 14, 2013 at the Downtown Berkeley BART station. We handed out information (14 Things To Do On World Diabetes Day) and we drew a large blue circle using sidewalk chalk.

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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 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 Dr. Nancy Larco, caring for PWD in Haiti

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Dr. Nancy Larco is Project Coordinator for an organization called FHADIMAC (Haitian Foundation for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease). FHADIMAC is private Haitian Foundation with over 6000 members. FHADIMAC is the only association working in Haiti towards playing an essential role in the daily lives of thousands of diabetics and hypertension sufferers and the lives of their parents by providing advice to allow them to “Live better with Diabetes and High Blood Pressure”.

In May 1987, the Association Haïtienne de Diabète (ADH) was created with the assistance of the Port-au-Prince Lions Club Central. The popular clinics were receiving an increasing amount of patients, numbering to over one hundred per session.

In 1989, ADH opened its headquarters at 208 Lalue, The Saint-François de Sales and Cité Soleil clinics were transferred to that location, and ADH was then able to provide other services, such as daily educative workshops and the sale of medication at a reduced price for members of the association.

Because of the high occurrence of hypertension among diabetics, ADH became FHADIMAC, Fondation Haïtienne de Diabète et de Maladies Cardio-Vasculaires, or Haitian Foundation of Diabetes and Cardio-Vascular Diseases, in 1993.

Since then, every day FHADIMAC welcomes patients who purchase medication at reduced prices, and young needy diabetics receive insulin at no charge, through a system of sponsorship. FHADIMAC also offers two weekly clinics for poverty-stricken patients, and provides daily educational workshops.

FHADIMAC is private Haitian Foundation with over 6000 members. FHADIMAC is the only association working in Haiti towards playing an essential role in the daily lives of thousands of diabetics and hypertension sufferers and the lives of their parents by providing advice to allow them to “Live better with Diabetes and High Blood Pressure.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with Bennet Dunlap about Strip Safely

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Bennet is a parent of two type 1 diabetic teens and he has pre-type 2 diabetes himself. Initially he had much to learn as managing chronic disease can be difficult and isolating. As time went on he found that good communication leads to better physical and emotional care. The process of moving from scared parent of a chronically ill child to advocate has provided him with knowledge he shares. Today, he blogs about Type 1 diabetes. He writes about raising children to grow to independently manage their diabetes and he works with other advocates to influence the legal and regulatory framework that constrains diabetes care. He was an amateur in health communications. He recently obtained a masters degree in health communications to help a wider population of people living with diabetes as a professional.

In 2012, Bennet developed Drinking With Diabetes, a resource for young adults with Type 1 Diabetes (and members of their support networks!) interested in learning how to drink responsibly:
http://www.drinkingwithdiabetes.com/

His latest endeavor is StripSafely (http://StripSafely.com), an advocacy initiative that you have been exposed to through TuDiabetes and other diabetes social media. We are honored to have Bennet join us today to tell us more about this important initiative, where it’s at and where it’s going.

4 ways to engage with StripSafely (do all of them):
1) Via Twitter: http://www.stripsafely.com/the-twitter-page/
2) Via letter: http://www.stripsafely.com/sample-page/
3) Participating in the Strip Safely edition of Diabetes Art Day: http://www.diabetesartday.com/diabetes-art-day-2013/special-edition-strip-safely/
4) Completing and sharing this petition:
http://diatribe.org/petition

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Diabetes Advocates webinar with Peter Staley @PeterStaley

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Peter Staley has been a long-term AIDS and gay rights activist, first as a member ofACT UP New York, then as the founding director of TAG, the Treatment Action Group. He served on the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research(amfAR) for 13 years and then founded AIDSmeds.com, an educational website for people living with HIV. Staley is a leading subject in the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.

Aug. 21, 2013 @ 4 pm PT he joined diabetes advocates to share his journey and lessons, for all of us to learn from it.

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TuDiabetes Live interview with Kerri Sparling, Diabetes Advocate and creator of the blog SixUntilMe

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Kerri Morrone Sparling was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on September 11, 1986, and for much of her life, she was the only diabetic she knew.

She started Six Until Me in May of 2005 because she was tired of Googling “diabetes” and coming up with little more than a list of complications and frightening stories.

But then she learned about blogs, and the power of sharing our stories online. When she first started blogging, she was one of four or five diabetes bloggers. Now she is a proud member of a vast diabetes community who prove every day that we not alone with this disease.

Kerri is a patient blogger, freelance writer, and social media consultant.

But there’s more to Kerri than diabetes….

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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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