TuDiabetes Live Interview: Michelle Litchman – Peer Health in the Diabetes Online Community

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Join us as we interview Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC and board certified Family Nurse Practitioner about the research she has done about the diabetes online community.
About Michelle: Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in diabetes care at Wasatch Internal Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has a unique practice in which she sees patients 1) in the clinic for one-on-one and group visits; and 2) in the home for older adults and mentally ill individuals who have difficulty getting to the clinic. She is an advocate for diabetes related technology and peer support for chronic disease management. Through her PhD studies at the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, she researched the role of the Diabetes Online Community among individuals with diabetes. She is a co-founder of the Diabetes Mixer, a social networking event for young adults with type 1 diabetes and founded the Fakebetes Challenge in which healthcare poviders were paired with individuals with diabetes to better understand the experience of living with diabetes.

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TuDiabetes Live interview with Manny Hernandez and Melissa Lee

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On January 15th Manny Hernandez, co-founder of TuDiabetes, announced to the TuDiabetes community that he will be stepping down as President of the Diabetes Hands Foundation, effective April 30, to be succeeded by Melissa Lee as Interim Executive Director. Melissa has already assumed her new role, effective January 15, and we are already benefitting from her wisdom and spirit!!

Melissa was one of the first volunteer admins of TuDiabetes and became our first Lead Administrator, as well. She joined the Board of Directors in 2012 and has served as Secretary to the Board for the past two years. In addition, Melissa is on the steering committee of Diabetes Advocates. You may also know her from her contributions to A Sweet Life, where she is the Tech Editor, and her own blog, Sweetly Voiced.

Join us for a conversation with Manny and Melissa about the leadership transition at Diabetes Hands Foundation, and what it means for TuDiabetes!

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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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Holiday update and party with DHF staff

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Join the staff of Diabetes Hands Foundation (parent to TuDiabetes) for a holiday hang-out!! We’ll give you an update on things to come on TuDiabetes in the New Year, answer questions from the community chat about the holidays and generally have a good time together. Please join us!

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#ShowUsYourBBT – Manny Hernandez does a #BigBlueTest

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Small steps can have a BIG impact. Watch Manny Hernandez do the #BigBlueTest then join the movement! 14-20 minutes of activity can have a big impact on your blood glucose level, plus each Big Blue Test entry will result in a $1 donation made by the program sponsor (up to $35,000) to nonprofit organizations that are providing life-saving supplies and services to people living with diabetes in need.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with TuDiabetes member Melissa: peer to peer fundraising!

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Melissa Lee (MelissaBL on TuDiabetes) is a long-time member and supporter of TuDiabetes. Melissa was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 10, DKA and comatose with a blood sugar over 1000. After spending 18 years feeling alone with her disease, she discovered the TuDiabetes community in 2008 and enthusiastically dove in. As one of the first two volunteer admins and later the first Lead Admin, she has given back to the community with her time, talent, and treasure because she credits it with finding the support she needed to get pregnant – twice – and better manage her diabetes on a daily basis. She currently serves on the steering committee of Diabetes Advocates, another program of Diabetes Hand Foundation. She is known to the greater community as a blogger and advocate, writing for A Sweet Life online magazine and her own blog, Sweetly Voiced.

Now the mother of two beautiful kids and a member of the Diabetes Hands Foundation’s Board of Directors for the last two years, Melissa will take over the chairmanship of the board in 2015 for a two-year term.

Melissa will join us to talk about peer-to-peer fundraising to support the work of Diabetes Hands Foundation, which hosts TuDiabetes.

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TuDiabetes Live Interview with Yishai Knobel Co-Founder and CEO of HelpAround.co

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Yishai Knobel is co-founder and CEO of HelpAround, the mobile safety net and peer support platform for people with chronic conditions.

Most recently, Yishai built the mobile-health business at Boston-based AgaMatrix, maker of iBGStar iPhone glucose monitor which is marketed today worldwide by Sanofi.

Before Agamatrix Yishai worked at Ray Ozzie’s Microsoft Startup Labs and prior to that he served 8 years in R&D leadership roles in the Israeli Army (captain). He has a BA in psychology and Computer Science, and MBA from the MIT Sloan school.

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