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
