In this very special podcast we chat to 10 amazing parents and carers about how they support their loved ones with diabetes and themselves. In Part 1 we talk about: - How does insulin dependent diabetes affect your whole family? - What part of giving insulin has been the most challenging? - Sleep - [...]
This week we hosted our second Research Event on the #diabeteschat. We hosted and welcomed five amazing Research guest speakers to share a little bit about their research studies & projects. We were joined by: š£ļø Dr Jill Charlton @JillCarlton1 š£ļø Professional Simon Heller @simonrheller š£ļø Emma Innes @emmainnes3p š£ļø Belinda Moore [...]
Nusrat Kausaris a Diabetes Dietitian and has worked as a dietitian in hospitals and is a volunteer for Diabetes UK for the children camps they run. He is also a researcher in Type 1 Diabetes.Dr Robert Andrewsis a Doctor based in Taunton and his aim, research and education stems in helping people with Type [...]
Michelle McKenna is mummy to two children and her youngest daughter has #T1D. Michelle is now a childrenās author and blogger after leaving the corporate world after 12 years to pursue a writing career, inspired by her younger daughter who has T1D. Her debut childrenās book is called āThe Yellow Billsā and Michelle writes [...]
For #HypoAwarenessWeek #diabeteschat spoke toDr Pratik Choudhary. Following the Guest Speaker chat we had a #diabeteschat community panel discussion about Hypos and Hypo Awareness. On the Panel was Tony, Chris, Flipper, Marc, Liz, Claire and Tom. We asked our community the following questions: - Do you have Hypo awareness? - What symptoms & at [...]
Professor Pratik Choudhary works at the University of Leicester; working within the Leicester Diabetes Research Centre. Pratikās clinical and academic interests are around type 1 diabetes and technology; specifically within academic and clinical projects that integrate education, psychology and technology. Pratik has a particular interest in helping embed new technologies into clinical practice, to [...]
Dominika is a Dentist, keen golfer and graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw in 2018 and Kingās College in London in 2019. Dominika carried out her masters of Diabetes Practice last year in 2021. Dominika was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes 4 years ago in July 2018. Dominika uses CMG Technology to help [...]
Our #diabeteschat guest speaker this week is Ben West and he was very active in the development of Night Scout. Ben runs a business called Medical Data Networks that provides hosting for Night Scout. Ben has Type 1 Diabetes and in this chat he shares his diagnosis and journey with us. Ben has been [...]
Diabetes Advocate, Patient Entrepreneur & Healthcare Consultant; Bastian Hauck joined the diabeteschat to talk about the upcoming #dedoc symposium at EASD on Tuesday 20th September 2022. Bastian spoke to Tom and the #diabeteschat community about how he founded #dedoc and shared a little bit about the amazing speakers who will be speaking at the [...]
Martinwas diagnosed with T1D in 1954at the age of 5. Martin is a radio presenter on Radio Marsden; a registered charity run by volunteers, broadcasting to and supporting cancer patients at the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London. Martin has seen huge technological advances in diabetes and in this episode of guest speaker chats Martin [...]
