Becca Kantor

Becca Kantor was born in Philadelphia and now lives in the Philadelphia suburbs. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude and with distinction in English. Her short stories have appeared in Peregrine and Labrys magazines. In her free time, she likes to draw, paint, and travel as much as possible. Becca was diagnosed with type 1 Read full bio | Read blog »

Belynda Bady

Belynda Bady was born in Philadelphia and spent most of her youth in West Philadelphia. She has lived in Massachusetts since 1986. Belynda’s Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed in 1998, the same year her father, a three-time amputee, died of diabetes complications. Belynda comes from a large family of nine children. Belynda's younger brother also has Type 2 diabetes. Read full bio | Read blog »

Catherine Price

Catherine Price (www.catherine-price.com) was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. She has written for publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Mother Jones , Health Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, and Outside, among others. A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism Read full bio | Read blog »

Gary Rudoren

Gary Rudoren is a writer amongst other things. The other things include being an actor, director, architect and photographer. Most recently he co-authored the humor bible, Comedy By The Numbers (published by McSweeneys). CBTN is now also a Book-On-Tape CD featuring many top comedians reading from the book. He is an alumni ensemble member of Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre Read full bio | Read blog »

Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and has continued to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Read full bio | Read blog »

Jim Huck

Jim Huck lives with his wife, son and three dogs in Nevada City, CA. He was diagnosed with type 1diabetes in 1977, back in the days when insulin pumps were the size of shoe boxes and peeing in a cup was the only way to estimate blood sugar from home. Read full bio | Read blog »

Karmel Allison

Karmel was born in Southern California, diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of nine, and educated at UC Berkeley. Karmel now lives in San Diego with her husband, where she is loving the sunshine, working as a software engineer at BrightScope, Read full bio | Read blog »

Michael Aviad

Michael Aviad has had type 1 diabetes since 2002. He was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Jerusalem. After studying law, Mike went on to study business. He has an MBA with a major in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and works as an economist. Mike is an avid soccer fan who loves to cook, eat, and run. He is the father of three sons. | Read blog »

Riva Greenberg

Riva is finally doing what she set out to do in high school – writing her observations of life and human behavior - little did she know then that diabetes would be her muse. Riva has had type 1 since 18 and is the author of “50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life: and the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It” and “The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes.” Read full bio | Read blog »

Robert Scheinman

Robert Scheinman received a PhD in Pharmacology in 1990 and joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy in 1995. Robert runs a medical research laboratory focused on the role of inflammation in various disease states including diabetes, arthritis, and cancer. Read full bio | Read blog »

Scott Richard

Scott Richard was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he completed a degree in Communications. Initially, Scott began his career working in the entertainment industry, but found the world of Wall Street more fascinating. Read full bio | Read blog »

Jane Kokernak

Jane Kokernak teaches in MIT's Writing Across the Curriculum Program and lives with her family near Boston. Her essays have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and Equally Shared Parenting, and one is forthcoming in PMS poemmemoirstory. Articles on teaching writing have appeared in Tomorrow's Professor. She is at work on a biography of Elizabeth Coleman White (1871-1954), a farmer and amateur botanist who in the 1920s introduced the first cultivated blueberry to the United States.

Martha Rose Shulman

Martha Rose Shulman is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five cookbooks, including Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine, Mediterranean Light, Provençal Light, and Entertaining Light. Her food combines pleasure and health, drawing from inherently healthy cuisines with big flavors. Read full bio

Meredith Resnick

Meredith Resnick received her masters of social work degree from San Diego State University and holds a California license in clinical social work. Early in her career Meredith completed a year-long clinical internship at the Loma Portal Adolescent Inpatient Unit, locked psychiatric facility operated by the County of San Diego Read full bio

Melissa Lieser

Melissa Lieser began her training in Culinary Arts at Kendall College in Chicago, Illinois and most recently at the French Culinary Institute in New York City, where she graduated with distinction and at the top of her class. She has worked in multiple kitchens across the United States and is the founder of missysrecipes.com. Read full bio

Dr. Anne Berenbom

Anne E. Berenbom, M.D. is an ophthalmologist currently practicing in New York City. She received her undergraduate degree, B.A.(Biology), from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and then earned her Medical Doctor Degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Continuing her education, Dr. Berenbom completed a Transitional Internship at University of Chicago, Weiss Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine. She then completed an Ophthalmology Residency Program from the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Berenbom is currently an attending physician at the Eye Institute of New York. As a comprehensive ophthalmologist, Dr. Berenbom has extensive experience screening for and treating Diabetic Eye Disease.

Dr. Zachary Bloomgarden

Dr. Bloomgarden has a national reputation for writing and lecturing nationally and internationally on diabetes, and has authored some 300 publications in this field. He is Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as participating in teaching rounds in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine. He is a member of the Board of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and served on the Journals Managing Subcommittee of the Endocrine Society. He has worked in the American Diabetes Association as a member of the Editorial Board, and subsequently as an Associate Editor of the clinical journal, Diabetes Care, Read full bio |

Gena Hamsahw

Gena Hamshaw, C.C.N., is a certified clinical nutritionist specializing in raw and vegan diets, digestive health, and detoxification. She works with clients nationwide to find easy, affordable and lasting steps towards good health through plant-based foods. When Gena isn’t counseling, she works as a book editor in Manhattan. Read full bio

Dr. Jay Lombard

Dr Lombard is Chief of Neurology and head of the Stroke department at Bronx Lebanon Hospital . He is the former director of the Brain Behavior Center in NY. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr Lombard is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology at Touro Medical College and director of medical education , Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at Cornell Medical School and a Clinical Instructor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr Lombard is the author of several critically acclaimed books including ;” Freedom from Disease”, “ Balance Your Brain “ and “ Brain Wellness Plan”. Read full bio |

Lynn Apple

Lynn Apple received a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. She is a registered nurse and certified as a lactation consultant with IBCLC. While living in France she earned the French diploma, Infirmière Puéricultrice (a pediatric nurse specialist) from L'hôpital de Poissy . She has worked as a childbirth educator and a breastfeeding specialist for over 25 years in hospitals in France, Israel, and the USA. Lynn supports the approach that a mother who is diabetic can breastfeed and that breastfeeding is good for both her and her child.

Dr. Mariela Glandt

Dr. Mariela Glandt was born in Argentina, received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. She continued on to a residency in internal medicine at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. During residency Dr. Glandt did research on beta cell failure at the Joslin Diabetes Center. She then held an endocrinology fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where her research focused on the reversal of Type I diabetes. Read full bio |

Marlee Zweifach

Marlee Zweifach received her master's degree in Nutrition from the University of California Davis. She is a registered dietitian, has been a certified diabetes educator for 15 years and has a private practice in New York City. She specializes in weight management and diabetes education and she is also a certified insulin pump trainer.