The UVMMC Children's Hospital T1D Parent Advisory would like to invite you to an event featuring Moira McCarthy Stanford!!! Moira will be presenting on May 18 from 6:30 pm-8:30 pm at the Sullivan Classroom at the UVM Medical School.
· Moira is a former national award-winning crime reporter and newspaper editor, and the author of the best-selling books, “The Everything Parents Guide to Diabetes” and "Raising Teens With Diabetes: A Parent Survival Guide," which was released in June of 2013.
· Moira is also an avid skier, and is a contributing editor at SKI Magazine as well as a weekly sports columnist and Travel Editor for the Boston Herald and a sports talk radio personality in Boston.
· Her advocacy and tireless support of type 1 diabetes research has landed her a spot as guest speaker on CNN Live and many other media outlets.
· She is also the creator of a well-known blog called despitediabetes.com.
· Moira is also very involved with JDRF. She was chair of JDRF’s Children’s Congress 2005, national chair of JDRF Grassroots Advocacy, national chair of Outreach, president of the New England Chapter and has served on various international committees.
· Moira McCarthy Stanford lives in Plymouth, MA and is connected to type 1 diabetes through her 25-year-old daughter, Lauren Stanford, who was diagnosed at the age of 6.
We look forward to seeing you on May 18th!
For more information please email Nicole.carney@uvmhealth.org or call 802-922-2221
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