Meet Our Advisory Panel

We are so honored for the support of these wonderful folks in out T1 diabetes community.  I have received such great encouragement and support and wisdom, for which I am truly grateful!

Medha Munshi, MD

Director, Geriatric Diabetes Program
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, geriatrician/endocrinologist.

Medha Munshi, MD, is the Director of the Joslin Geriatric Diabetes Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a staff geriatrician at the Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston.

Dr. Munshi is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism. Since joining the faculty, Dr. Munshi has developed a unique Geriatric Diabetes Program at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

Dr. Munshi’s clinical research is focused on identifying barriers to diabetes management and developing novel strategies to improve care of older adults. She has co-edited a book Geriatric Diabetes with Dr. Lewis Lipsitz, and recently co-edited Diabetes in Old Age, with Drs. Alan J. Sinclair, Trisha Dunning and Leocadio Rodriquez Mañas. She has just published Aging Well with Diabetes, co-authored with Sheri Colberg, PhD.

Dr. Steven Edelman

Professor of medicine, University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the VA Healthcare System of San Diego
Director of the Diabetes Care Clinic at the VA Medical Center
Founder/Director of Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD)

Dr. Steven Edelman is a native of Southern California and has been living with type 1 diabetes since the age of 15. After completing his diabetes specialty training at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, he came to the University of California at San Diego, where he has been on staff since 1990. Dr. Edelman is an international leader in diabetes treatment, research, and especially education. Dr. Edelman champions the cause of patient advocacy and has dedicated his life to helping people with diabetes live healthier and happier lives.

Dr. Edelman has written four books and more than 200 publications, including articles and abstracts that have been published in such journals as American Journal of Physiology, Diabetes, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a journal reviewer for several journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.  His honors include valedictorian of his medical school graduating class, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, and Chief Resident’s Teacher of the Year Award from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Edelman is also founder and director of the nonprofit organization Taking Control Of Your Diabetes and hosts a television talk show called Taking Care of Your Diabetes, which includes guests from various medical and professional backgrounds who provide information on topics such as common emotional barriers, nutrition, exercise, insulin therapies, oral medications, technological advances, neuropathy, foot care, study results and legal issues.

Nancy A. Allen, PhD, ANP-BC, FADCES, FAAN

Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah

Dr. Allen is a nurse practitioner with expertise in cognitive disorders and diabetes. She is also a research scientist who studies older adults with diabetes and technology interventions to improve their diabetes outcomes and diabetes distress. She has developed a continuous glucose monitoring intervention with data sharing for older adults with diabetes and their care partners called Share plus. Based on the broad national and international dissemination of her work, the findings of Share plus, CGM manufacturer Dexcom Inc., consulted with her to develop a presentation and clinical tool for healthcare clinicians to use when starting patients on CGM with data sharing. This tool is now available to over 36.1 million individuals with diabetes and the 2 million individuals with diabetes who are currently using CGM.

Dave Walton

CEO, T1D Exchange
BA, Psychology, Princeton University; MBA/Healthcare Management, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

As a longtime leader in healthcare innovation and a person who has lived with type 1 diabetes for the past three decades, Dave has long focused on accelerating progress in diabetes research, education, and care.

“We’ve got a lot of exciting things underway right now,” he says of the organization’s current chapter. That includes new grant applications, expanding the impact of its wide-reaching nationwide quality improvement collaborative and health registry of people with T1D, as well as finding new ways to use that data to drive research and novel population-level insights and power innovation in diabetes care.

Under Dave’s leadership, T1D Exchange has grown its population-level EMR database to over 65,000 people with T1D and 40,000 with T2D. It also has a separate online registry connected directly to over 22,000 people with type 1 diabetes.

Dr. Anna Kahkoska, MD/PhD & T1D
UNC Chapel Hill and The International Geriatric Diabetes Society

Dr. Kahkoska’s research is focused on identifying new strategies to leverage nutrition alongside other aspects of diabetes self-care to improve the health and wellness of people who live with diabetes. Her team employs multiple scientific approaches to understand the full complexity of diabetes management and how it may change over the lifespan, with a focus on the growing population of older adults living with diabetes.

Her current projects are exploring 1) the dietary practices, beliefs, and intake of older adults living with type 1 diabetes [DELI]; 2) novel interventions to provide older adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes with individualized training and support to learn to use diabetes technology as a part of their self-management [OA-TECH]; and 3) the real-world effectiveness of diabetes technology among older adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes on outcomes relevant to diabetes care and aging; and 4) strategies to embed screening and evidence-based treatment for diabetes distress within routine type 1 diabetes care at UNC [ChargeUp].

Dr. Kahkoska’s research is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the National Academy of Medicine, the Diabetes Research Connection, the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center, and the North Carolina Diabetes Research Center.

David Winkler, Co-Founder and Vice Chair

Co-Founder, the Diabetes Research Connection
B.S. in biology, Tufts University
J.D., University of San Diego School of Law

David, a lawyer and entrepreneur, has had Type 1 Diabetes for over 60 years and also has several family members and friends with the disease. He is a founder of the Diabetes Research Connection and currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer. David has been a tireless advocate and donor for diabetes research.

Aimée José, BSN, BA, RN, CDCES

Aimée José is a diabetes care expert and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist with over a decade of experience improving outcomes for people with diabetes and other chronic conditions. With a background in nursing and psychology, she specializes in designing patient-centered care models, education programs, and digital health solutions that reflect real-world needs.

Aimée is committed to simplifying complex care, empowering patients, and ensuring innovation always starts with the patient experience.