On June 17, 2017, the Breakthrough T1D Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Chapter presented the 2017 Volunteer Awards, formally recognized its retiring Board Members for the time and effort that they dedicated to Breakthrough T1D, and elected our new incoming Board Members.

Executive Director Bill Parsons gave an impassioned presentation on the State of the Foundation and made the case that the GCP Chapter is the strongest it has been in its storied history in providing for its T1D community.

“What is special now as opposed to five years ago? We are at the leading edge of a true Golden Age for translation of T1D research, where an increasing number of the learnings from the past 47 years are going to be commercialized into tangible deliverables that will make life progressively easier, simpler and safer for people with T1D. It will never be harder to live with T1D than it is today.  It only gets easier from here,” said Parsons.

For the fiscal year of 2017, the Greater Chesapeake & Potomac Chapter volunteers and staff together raised over $7 million for T1D research! Thank you to all our of our amazing volunteers, and congratulations to all retiring and new Board Members.

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2017 Volunteer Award Winners

2017 Corporate Partner of the Year – Hogan Lovells

2017 Torchbearer Award – Fight 4 Diabetes Cure

2017 Pacesetter Award – Lara Rimmel & Allison Tyler

2017 Service Excellence Award – Diana Daly & Laura Johnson

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New DC Board President-Karrie McMillan

New MD Board President-Tom Biddison

 

Retiring Board Members

Dave Borsos

Jon Futrell

Amanda Gordon

Miles Jackson

Richard Lucas

Steve Pann

Lauren Rapaport

David Rostker

New Board Members

DC Board

Susan Anderson

Marcus Appelbaum

Karen Esser

Daniel Farrington

Angie Geier

Chris Kelly

Alan Rosenthal

Kim Tilley

 

MD Board

Robb Cohen