The Type One Diabetes Optimist Club (T1DOC) is a newly formed Optimist club organized to provide support to Breakthrough T1D, and the entire T1 community to improve the lives of the with T1D. T1DOC helps those with T1D in many ways, which include:

• assisting in providing educational outreach and awareness to school communities.
• helping raise research funds seeking a T1 cure and improved treatment options.
• raising scholarship funds to allow T1D kids to attend special diabetes camps.
• establishing a speaker’s bureau to educate about T1D and Breakthrough T1D.
• providing a cadre of motivated volunteers to assist Breakthrough T1D and other T1 organizations.

Click here to read the latest T1DOC Newsletter!

Anyone is welcome to attend meetings! Meeting are held at 6:30 PM on the first and third Wednesday of every month at Perkins (955 S Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80222). Speakers include:

• February 5 – Paramedic Kevin Coffey, on how diabetics are treated in an emergency
• February 19 – Dr. David Maahs, on the Artificial Pancreas
• March 5 – Dr. Irene Schauer, on a research study to see if a type 2 pill can benefit T1Ds
• Mary 19 – Becky Fruta, a T1D and racer for Team Novo Nordisk
• April 16 – Dr. Jennifer Raymond, on adolescent diabetic behavior

For more information on the T1DOC and its goals, please contact Jeff Gartz (303-987-8224), David Cooper (720-621-2739), Dick Cohen (303-320-1767) or Ron Gustas (303-770-9640).