This week our #DiabetesChat guest speaker was Kamil 'Nerdabetic' with host Flipper. Kamil lives with type 1 diabetes. He has an amazing YouTube channel which discusses all thinks tech in the diabetes sphere. He has interviewed some the big names in the diabetes tech industry & attended many of the diabetes conferences. Outside of [...]
In this #diabeteschat podcast, our host Tom Dean is joined by Dr Tom Crabtree. Dr Tom Crabtree is a Diabetes & Endocrinology registrar and ABCD research fellow working at the University Hospitals of Derby. Tom is the current chair of the YDEF committee. His interests include diabetes technology, type 1 diabetes and lessons from [...]
In this #diabeteschat, Tom is joined by our guest speaker and diabetes consultant Dr Alistair Lumb. We talked about: 💙 his career working in the diabetes field 💙 his role as DTN UK chair 💙 technology 💙 sports & exercise tips 💙 & Dr Alistair Lumb welcomed questions from the community You can also [...]
On this #diabeteschat episode we were joined by parents of the Type 1 Club. We heard all about the amazing group and how it all started, the events they do and all the amazing fundraising they do to support children and their families. We spoke to Edelle, Gayle and Kelly and learnt how [...]
On this week's #diabeteschat we were joined by Ros Gray. She spoke to Flipper and Tom about her diabetes diagnosis and journey and how technology has changed over the past 40 years since diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a toddler. Ros also spoke about her amazing advocacy work she has done for [...]
Lis Warren has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1965. Having spoken to only a few others with diabetes in her first 4 decades with type 1, she’s now an active volunteer, patient advocate and a representative ‘expert by experience’ in NHS and diabetes research committees and with the diabetes charities. Lis believes that [...]
In this episode Tom, Chris, Flipper and the Diabetes Chat community asked questions toto JDRF UK' Community Engagement Team. We were joined by Dan Farrow, Chris Bright, Edelle Irwin, Mary Murphy and Lesley Jordan. The Community Engagement team joined the #diabeteschat Twitter Space as guest speakers and we talked about: - What is JDRF [...]
Tim Street runs a website / blog called the diabettech that covers lots of aspects of diabetes technology including investigating's into different CGMs. Tim also contributes extensively to the Android APS platform and has done work on algorithms to help look at fully closing the loop, In this episode Tom, Chris, Flipper and the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
