POSTPONED! 2020 JDRF LI TypeOneNation Summit
March 21, 2020, Melville, NY
8:00 am - 2:00 pm
FREE
IMPORTANT UPDATE: We have been closely monitoring the national outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). While the risk of contracting the virus in the United States remains low, the situation locally is changing very quickly, and we have made the difficult decision to postpone the 2020 Long Island TypeOneNation Summit out of an abundance of caution for the health, safety, and well-being of the JDRF and T1D community. We are exploring options to reschedule the event and will be in touch with more details once available.
Schedule
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8:00am – Check-in | Exhibitor Fair | Breakfast
9:00am – Kids Korner opens
9:15am – Welcome & Keynote Speakers
10:45am – Break
11:15am – Tracks
Register for the track that best describes your connection to T1D
1:45pm – Kids Korner Closes
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The event will begin with a Welcome Breakfast and Keynote Presentation featuring Sean Busby, professional snowboarder living with type 1 diabetes and Jacquelyn Brown, Ph.D, JDRF Research Scientist. ALL TypeOneNation Summit registrants are invited to attend.
After breakfast, attendees will then make their way to their designated session room, based on the track that they have registered for. Please see descriptions below:
- Track A – Register for this track if you are an adult/young adult (19+) living with T1D or a spouse, partner or family member of an adult/young adult with T1D OR a health care provider for adults with T1D.
- Track B – Register for this track if you are the parent(s)/guardian(s) of a toddler or school age child with T1D or health care provider for children with T1D.
- Track C – Register for this track if you are a Teen (13-18) with T1D or a sibling (13-18) of someone with T1D.
- Track D – Register for this track if you are interested in learning more about basic diabetes care. *A certified diabetes educator will offer basic T1D care for grandparents, school nurses, coaches, babysitters, etc.
Parents/Guardians can also register their children for Kids Korner, a supervised program where young kids can engage in several different activities while adults enjoy their session. Designed for children ages 4-12.
Keynote Speakers
Sean Busby
Professional Snowboarder
BioSean Busby
Professional Snowboarder
Sean Busby is a professional backcountry snowboarder with type 1 diabetes and lupus living off the grid in the wilds of Alaska. Sean is the first person with type 1 diabetes to snowboard on all seven continents, including some of the most remote and isolated mountain ranges on the planet. Sean has been featured internationally in major print and tv shows such as HGTV, DIY, Disney, ESPN, Daily Mail, Yahoo, and Discovery Channel for his snowboarding expeditions and with his wife, Mollie, for their sustainable off grid building and living methods (www.thebusbyhive.com). Sean is also the founder and executive director of an international nonprofit, Riding On Insulin (ridingoninsulin.org), which hosts action sports camps for kids and teens living with type 1 diabetes. As a long term Omnipod® Insulin Management System user, Sean truly lives an active, untethered life of adventure.
Jacquelyn Brown, Ph.D.
Scientist, Research
BioJacquelyn Brown, Ph.D.
Scientist, Research
Jacquelyn Brown, Ph.D., is a research scientist at JDRF. She manages the biomarkers and disease development grant portfolios for the Prevention program. She is involved in JDRF’s cross-disciplinary efforts surrounding type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Big Data, which involves teaming up with data analytics experts, including IBM Watson researchers, to develop machine learning methods to analyze years of global T1D research data to identify factors leading to onset in children.
Dr. Brown also works closely with both the Regeneration and Immunotherapies programs to implement an effective JDRF Biomarker Program. The goal of this program is to identify multiple biomarkers that present before diagnosis of T1D in order to recognize the genesis of the disease at an earlier stage and prolong onset.
Prior to her work at JDRF, Dr. Brown was a research fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she designed and executed cancer research strategies to improve immune cell killing of tumors.
Dr. Brown earned her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where she researched the regulation of immune cell development and function, and received an NIH training grant in immunology. Dr. Brown is a person with T1D herself, and has been living with it for 20 years.
Event Contact
Betsy Paffmann
(631) 768-3389 | bpaffmann@jdrf.org
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