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80 years with Type 1

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Last month, Joslin awarded Dr. C Kenneth Gorman the Lifetime Achievement Award for living for 80 years with ‪#‎insulin‬-dependent (‪#‎type1‬) ‪#‎diabetes‬. Dr. Gorman is one of five recipients of the 80-year medal and the only Canadian recipient thus far. In 1935, at the age of two, Dr. Gorman was diagnosed with ‪#‎T1D‬. He went on to become an ‪#‎endocrinologist‬ and worked as a research fellow under Dr. Charles Best, one of the co-discovers of insulin. During his time with Dr. Best, Dr. Gorman began corresponding with Dr. Elliott Joslin and accepted a position as an N.I.H. Trainee Fellow in Diabetes at the Joslin Clinic from 1962 to 1964. Dr. Gorman's next goal is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Insulin in 2021. Congratulations, Dr. Gorman!

More about the Joslin Medalist programme:
http://www.joslin.org/medalist/background.html

Amazing! 🙂 He worked with Charles Best as well! :D
 
What an inspiring news story I loved reading it Really is amazing.
 
How fantastic, it's so nice to hear good news stories. Lets hope the Gentleman gets to celebrate the 100th anniversary of finding insulin 🙂
 
Wow, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing this Alan 🙂
 
Very good ! 🙂. That's a long time & in the proper early days 🙂 Good on him !
 
Thank you for sharing that with us Alan. It is wonderful and he deserves his medal. I have a friend whose son aged 13 has just been diagnosed with T1. She is very anxious and upset so I will share this with her. I am trying to encourage her to use this forum where lots of kind people will help her and she and her son come to terms with the diagnosis. 🙂
 
Lovely to hear some good news for once 🙂
 
Hurrah - something to aim for! 🙂
 
Although, thinking about it, that would make me 122😱
 
Well I'm on my way to that but a little while to go - I've done 56 years so this story gives me hope. 🙂
 
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