dLife Annual Top 10 Awards
Over 20,000 votes were cast and the winners are:
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KC Arnold KC Arnold, along with her colleagues at Gulf Coast Endocrinology, worked diligently in collecting and distributing diabetes supplies to the needy residents of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. |
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The Children With Diabetes Quilt Each one of the 450+ panels of the CWD quilt tells the story of the precious lives of children from all around the world who live with diabetes and the impact on those families who deal with it every day. CWD sponsored a public display of this moving mosaic for the first time in 2005. |
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Denny Dressman & Jay Leeuwenburg Jay Leeuwenburg started more than 120 National Football League games during a nine-year NFL career. But before any of that, he met Type 1 diabetes head-on. The incredibly inspiring book, Yes I Can! Yes You Can! Tackle Diabetes and Win!, released in 2005 with Denny Dressman, completely dismisses the notion that one cannot overcome obstacles with diabetes. In Jay’s words: "To not participate would be like saying, 'Don't breathe.'" |
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Lee Iacocca The year 2005 marked the first full year that “Join Lee Now” was in operation. Iacocca’s foundation is raising money for funding specific research for Dr. Denise Faustman’s work towards finding a cure for diabetes, and has raised over $9 million to date. |
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The Joslin Diabetes Center One of the leading diabetes institutions in the world opened a new bilingual clinic in Boston in 2005 led by Director and Founder George King, M.D. It is designed to treat the growing Asian American Diabetes Community. With an estimated 10% of the Asian population in America having diabetes, it is a program worth duplicating across the United States. |
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Maurice Madden Millennium Filmworks founder Maurice Madden has partnered with The Center of Disease Control, The Public Health Foundation, The Texas Diabetes Council, and others to educate the African-American community about the importance of diabetes management via his film The Debilitator. |
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Adam Morrison The Gonzaga University basketball superstar became the leading college scorer in the nation while managing his diabetes. Openly testing and talking about his diabetes, his actions told a nation that it is ‘okay’ to have diabetes. |
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Bernard Siegel Attorney Bernard Siegel and his Genetics Policy Institute brought both sides of the stem cell debate together in a rational open dialogue. From worldwide ramifications at the United Nations to discussions in Washington and on local levels, this ‘Clone Ranger’ as he has been called continues to promote an open dialogue on what is fact and what is fiction regarding stem cell research. |
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Kendall Simmons The starting offensive lineman for the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers lives with type 2 diabetes and spends countless hours encouraging kids who have diabetes to reach for the stars. |
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Malcom and Kamaal Washington Knowing that there was nothing available to portray diabetes in a manner that kids would find interesting, two brothers from Kansas City, MO created a comic book called Omega Boy vs. Doctor Diabetes to help kids understand what diabetes is and what the symptoms are. The success of the book spawned a second book in 2005 entitled Enter the Blaze, The Return of Dr. Diabetes. |
Congratulations to All!
The dLife Editorial Staff