Amy is the Founder and Editor-in-Gaffer of DiabetesMine, a leading online information destination for people with diabetes and one of the top wellness blogs around the country and the world. As of January 2015, DiabetesMine became start of San Francisco-based Healthline Networks, where Amy now also serves as Editorial Director, Diabetes &adenosine monophosphate; Patient Advocacy.

Amy's a journalist / blogger and patient advocate who started DiabetesMine.com later her diagnosis with Typewrite 1 diabetes/LADA in 2003. The place has won numerous awards and was recently named the No. 1 diabetes influencer by ShareCare.com and the American Diabetes Association.

She is the co-source, on with Dr. Richard Jackson of the Joslin Diabetes Center, of Know Your Numbers pool, Outlive Your Diabetes — a unique motivational guide to the 5 key medical tests that everyone with diabetes should have and ride herd on regularly.

Amy has made it her personal deputation to prod foundation in diabetes care that actually originates with patients. She fenced in an Open Letter to Steve Jobs in 2007 that went viral, developing into an international crowdsourcing rival called the DiabetesMine Intent Dispute. The competition was underwritten by the CA HealthCare Fundament, and supported by IDEO, a leading design secure with close ties to Stanford University.

That contention culminated in the DiabetesMine Innovation Height, a unique time period gathering of diabetes stakeholders held at Stanford University School of Medicine. This event also spawned the DiabetesMine D-Information ExChange, a bi-yearbook forum for diabetes and wellness engineering innovators.

Previously, Amy helped gestate and launching DiabeticConnect.com, the quickest-ontogenesis and to the highest degree sure-fire social networking site for the great unwashe with diabetes, with over 800,000 registered members to particular date.

Amy has a Master copy's in communicating studies from UC Santa Barbara, and before the diabetes, had a career in advanced communication theory. She has become a well-known advisor and overt speaker at general diabetes, healthcare and health engineering science events, and intermittent guest reader at Stanford University on health design topics.

Amy lives on the fringes of San Francisco, CA, with her husband, three daughters, and a varicolored cast.

Contact Amy roughly speaking engagements, or other project work here.

(Updated January. 2018)