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Jeff Hitchcock; founder of Children with Diabetes
Jeff Hitchcock is the founder of "Children with Diabetes," an organization whose Web site has become an indispensible source of information and support for countless families around America and beyond. In the 1990s, Hitchcock was an Internet pioneer, using this new technology to help patients, but he was less a visionary than a desperate parent: his daughter had diabetes, and he knew that other parents had the same questions, fears, and hopes that he had. Hitchcock's company now sponsors multiple conferences a year the "Friends for Life Conference" in Orlando just took place and he plans to expand that part of his business abroad, with the first international conference taking place in Toronto shortly. In this interview with diaTribe's Jim Hirsch and Kelly Close, he talks about the origins of "Children with Diabetes," the evolution of care, and the history of the organization's conferences.