Hello Totally,

A HUGE THANK YOU to the 50 people who entered our 2015 DiabetesMine Uncomplaining Voices Contend this year, and shared their wonderful ideas for diabetes living hacks. We learned a lot, patc evaluating all of the input and essays!

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Our prestigious guest evaluator this yr, D-author and advocate Riva Greenberg, had this to say:

"It was a joy to look at the hacks so umteen passionate people conveyed us. I loved seeing the many original ideas, and also I loved version the in the flesh stories of so many another PWDs who are already advocates in their own communities.

"I am delighted that the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit will convey our hackers and those from various diabetes industries together to dea their ideas in that unique think factory. I can't wait to see what happens and feeling the buzz in the room as we each work toward a single purpose — improving life for people dealing with diabetes. Bring it on!"

Promissory note that our winners were not chosen on the merits of their hacks alone, but on the combination of their ideas, love, ground, and verbalized reasons for missing to be part of the Innovation Summit.

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With that, drumroll please… today we reveal our 2015 winners (in alphabetical order):

  • Anthony Byers – a type 2 PWD (person with diabetes) since 2004 World Health Organization lives in Oakland, CA. After many years of struggles, he turned his life around away launching his own business and ray-focal point on his diabetes care. Living Hack : leaving his organized executive Book of Job for a major life story overhaul.
  • Brian Cohen – a type 2 PWD living in Northern Virginia with a "devoted interest in using science and innovation to improve the lives of those with diabetes." Brian blogs at The Trials of Type 2 Diabetes and is acrobatic as an administrator at the TuDiabetes community internet site. Life Hack : avoiding insulin mistakes with a rubber band computer memory device.
  • Julie Crawford – an Ohio River-based mom whose 9-year-old son was ironically diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on Halloween day of this bygone yr. With a degree in nursing (RN), 15 years' experience in the healthcare diligence and an Master in Business degree in marketing, she immediately get to become an innovator in diabetes tools herself. Biography Hack : Julie is operative with a team to develop a caregiver support app called "Type1D – team up for life."
  • Jane Dickinson – a certified diabetes educator and longtime type 1 unhurried herself, who says she's feeling the effects of middle age and wants "to represent the of necessity of people experiencing menopause, memory loss, deafness, hairsbreadth loss, dental caries, mild cognitive impairment, loss of muscle strength, and all the enthusiastic/scary things that seed with aging." Life Hack : a basket settled on the bathroom countertop to assistant prompt her whether she's taken her Lantus or not to each one day.
  • Amy Green – a retired dancer, now raising 3 young children, who's been living with type 1 diabetes for 25 years. She applies the Michael Philip Jagger Principle to diabetes: "You stern't always get what you deficiency, but if you try, sometimes… well, you rightful might find, you mystify what you need!" Life Hacks : several "incomprehensible, semi-charming" tricks including "littering your interior with glucometers" and using Breathe Mighty Strips to help obligate your CGM sensor in place.
  • Dmitri Katz – a type 1 PWD for restrained to 35 years who's currently studying for his PhD in Berlin, Germany. He's researching the role of mobile engineering science in diabetes management and how to improve the user experience (Uxor) of diabetes self-management apps. Life Hack : Getting involved with developing new extremity technical school for diabetes management, which he says "makes my control more fun."
  • Kelly Kunik – a longtime type 1 (almost 38 years!) and well-better-known D-blogger and advocate, whose conviction is "that diabetes innovations in entirely forms and patient of/doctor communication partnerships are central tools for people with diabetes to live, grow and flourish." Aliveness Hacks : MacGyvering her One Touch Ultra strips canister lid to help remove her pump battery, and using long-stemmed 3- 4 ounce glasses for a "fancy" hypo discourse that North Korean won't overdo it.
  • Corrine Logan – diagnosed at just 23 months, this young woman has experienced diabetes as a bambino, a child, a teenage, and like a sho transitioning into maturity. Yep, she even performed "The No-Hurty Dance" with her kindergarten classmates when an injection did not harm. Life Hack : creating the chichi supplies that her have pre-immature self urgently needed, in the material body of Pumpstash, a comfortable, unostentatious option to hold an insulin pump and Continuous Glucose Monitor lizard (CGM).
  • Joanne Milo maize – a Southern Calif. based D-blogger, author and burning preach who's a devotee of Nightscout/CGM in the Cloud; she did some recent product reviews for the 'Mine. on #WeAreNotWaiting tech tools besides as inhaled insulin Afrezza. Life Hacks : setting up Nightscout, exchanging unused D-products within the confirm group, and making her own medical Idaho bracelets for herself and anyone who asks… they even come with matching earrings!
  • Betsy Ray – a type 1 herself, parent of a character 1 child, paid nutritionist and "diabetes best health expert." She's likewise an Eli Lilly 50-year silver medalist, and a cyclist who's "always on the hound for products and services that better my experience as a diabetic athlete." Life Hacks : we loved the manner she mounted a Dexcom CGM receiver onto her bike for better data-viewing while riding, but of course we're affected in how she's a founding winner of the Eli Lilly "Inspired by Diabetes" competition and founder of her own Diabetes Activist awareness and education group.

Praise TO ALL! You'll be hearing from us soon with details on your Summit engagement.

Regarding those Diabetes Sprightliness Hacks — we'll be in soupco with a number of submitters, as we plan to compile some favorite picks to feature film in the 2015 DiabetesMine Patient Voices telecasting we're compiling, and we'll feature just about faves here shortly too.

We can't wait to share with y'totally!