Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When a top researcher decided he wanted to take a group of teens with Type 1 diabetes skiing for five days and use the opportunity to run a trial for the Artificial Pancreas (AP), he reached out to the Riding On Insulin (ROI) team of ski and snowboard instructors.
According to Mollie Busby, ROI executive director, it was the idea of Type Zero Technologies’ chief mathematician, Dr. Boris Kovatchev, to reach out to ROI to gauge interest in being part of a groundbreaking artificial pancreas trial. Mollie and the rest of the ROI team responded with a resounding “Yes!”. Busby said, “This opportunity was the most perfect thing for our team. We have been running day ski/snowboard camps but never had the opportunity to do an overnight camp.”
Type Zero and ROI turned to the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology to handle the logistics of the trial, which included an entourage of 16 teens, 7 ski/snowboard coaches, and 12 research staff members, including an engineer from the University of Padua, all descending upon Virginia’s Wintergreen Ski Resort. And one more thing, NO PARENTS!
http://asweetlife.org/feature/snowboarding-with-an-artificial-pancreas/
According to Mollie Busby, ROI executive director, it was the idea of Type Zero Technologies’ chief mathematician, Dr. Boris Kovatchev, to reach out to ROI to gauge interest in being part of a groundbreaking artificial pancreas trial. Mollie and the rest of the ROI team responded with a resounding “Yes!”. Busby said, “This opportunity was the most perfect thing for our team. We have been running day ski/snowboard camps but never had the opportunity to do an overnight camp.”
Type Zero and ROI turned to the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology to handle the logistics of the trial, which included an entourage of 16 teens, 7 ski/snowboard coaches, and 12 research staff members, including an engineer from the University of Padua, all descending upon Virginia’s Wintergreen Ski Resort. And one more thing, NO PARENTS!
http://asweetlife.org/feature/snowboarding-with-an-artificial-pancreas/
. With a bust Pancreas