Meet The Team
We Are One Founding Fathers
Steven V. Edelman
MD
- Founder and Director
- Taking Control of Your Diabetes 501(c)3
- Professor of Medicine
- University of California San Diego
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Jeremy H. Pettus
MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine Department of Endocrinology University of California San Diego
- Director of the Type 1 Track
- Taking Control of Your Diabetes
We Are One Advisory Board
Nicholas Argento
MD
- Director, Diabetes Technology, Maryland Diabetes and Endocrine Practice
- Medical Advisor for Diabetes, Howard County General Hospital
Jen Block
FNP, NP-C, RN, CDE
- Research Nurse and Nurse Practitioner
- Department of Pediatric Endocrinology
- Stanford University Medical Center
Alana Clemens
- Patient Advocacy, Boehringer Ingelheim
- Advisory Board, Diabetic Living Magazine
Kelly Close
- President, Close Concerns
- Editor-in-Chief, diaTribe
Sheri Colberg
PhD
- Author, lecturer, researcher
- Professor of Exercise Science, Old Dominion University
- Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Professional volunteer, American Diabetes Association
Claudia Graham
PhD, MPH
- Vice President, Global Access, Dexcom
Manny Hernandez
- Co-Founder and President
- Diabetes Hands Foundation
Irl Hirsch
MD
- Professor of Medicine
- Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
- University of Washington School of Medicine
Bill King
- Diabetes Advocate
- Athlete with Diabetes, DCCT/EDIC Participant, Marathon Runner
Aaron Kowalski
PhD
- Vice President, Treatment Therapies, JDRF
Peter Nerothin
- Adventure Educator, Prescott College
Kyrra Richards
- Founder - Myabetic Diabetes Accessories
- Author, Contributor
- Designer of lifestyle accessories
Blair Ryan
- Community Specialist, Tandem Diabetes
Kerri Sparling
- Writer, speaker, and diabetes advocate
- Founder and blogger, Six Until Me