I founded the open source artificial pancreas movement (known as “OpenAPS”), making safe and effective automated insulin delivery (AID) technology available (sooner) for people with diabetes around the world. I authored the book, "Automated Insulin Delivery: How artificial pancreas “closed loop” systems can aid you in living with diabetes", to help more people understand automated insulin delivery systems, in addition to a series of children's books such as "Understanding Automated Insulin Delivery: A basic book for kids, family, and friends of people living with diabetes". I am now an independent and grant-funded researcher. My research ranges from retrospective data analysis, data science, machine learning, and AI-related work on diabetes data to prospective clinical research trials, such as a recent RCT evaluating the OpenAPS algorithm (now published in NEJM) as safe and effective for adults and children living with diabetes. My other research interest is in exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI/PEI/PI).I also develop iOS apps such as "PERT Pilot" to support people living with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and "Carb Pilot" to make carb counting or macronutrient tracking easier. I also created the internationally-recognized weekly #hcsm (healthcare communications and social media) conversation in Jan. 2009, which became a community spanning six continents and tens of thousands of people.My previous professional experience spans health care strategy in both innovation and communications. I previously served as Director, MDigitalLife for W2O Group, and analyzed and mapped strategic trends in online healthcare communities. Prior to that, I served as Senior Manager, Digital Content at Providence Health & Services and managed the digital marketing & internal communications team at Swedish Health Services in Seattle. In these roles I had responsibility for strategic planning, crisis communications, digital strategy, and more.I speak internationally and frequently consult for a variety of health care organization, as well as advise or serve as co-PI on numerous diabetes- and patient innovation-related research projects. I am open to new research projects. Specialties: strategic communications, health communications, digital communications, public relations, social media strategy, technical writing, strategic planning, digital strategy, strategic development, technology, innovation, diabetes, data science, AI, machine learning, patient advocacy/experience, patient-driven research, EPI, PEI, automated insulin delivery.