Inigo San Milan

Presenter

Director, Exercise Physiology Lab - University of Colorado Sports Medicine

Dr. San Millán is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Director of the Sports Performance Program at the CU Sports Medicine and Performance Center in Boulder, Colorado. He is an internationally renowned applied physiologist having worked for the past 20 years for many professional teams and elite athletes worldwide across multiple sports like running, football, soccer, basketball, rowing, triathlon, swimming, Olympics and cycling including eight Pro Cycling Teams. He has also been a consultant in exercise physiology and sports medicine to international organizations like the US Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union. He has been a pioneer in developing new methodologies for monitoring athletes at the metabolic and physiological level including the invention, along his colleague Dr. John Hill, of the first method to measure skeletal muscle glycogen in a non-invasive manner using high frequency ultrasound. His areas of research, clinical work and interest include exercise metabolism, nutrition, sports performance, overtraining, diabetes, cancer and critical care. Although now a recreational athlete, Dr. San Millán used to be a competitive athlete and played soccer for six years for the developmental teams of Real Madrid soccer team as well as got to race as a professional cyclist for two years.

Rory McCrimmon

Dr. Rory McCrimmon trained at the University of Edinburgh and completed his clinical and specialty training in the South-East of Scotland before becoming an NHS Consultant Physician at the University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, in 2000. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Yale University, Connecticut, where he began his basic research in the central regulation of glucose homeostasis. He returned to the UK in 2009 to establish a laboratory at the University of Dundee, where he is currently Professor of Experimental Diabetes and Metabolism. Dr. McCrimmon’s laboratory researches how the brain interacts with peripheral organs to monitor and maintain glucose homeostasis, with a particular focus on hypoglycaemia and type 1 diabetes. In addition to his work in research and clinical practice, Dr. McCrimmon serves on the editorial board of Diabetes Care, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Diabetic Hypoglycemia, an online journal focused on hypoglycaemia in clinical practice.

Sarah Oliver

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Registered Nurse, Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator

Sarah is a dietitian and diabetes educator.  Most of her experience thus far has been in rural areas and this has enabled her to become familiar with many different aspects of type 1 Diabetes that may not be as prevalent in an urban setting. Sarah has a passion for helping individuals of all ages to use insulin and nutrition appropriately to manage their blood glucose levels while preparing for strenuous exercise, competitive events, and simple recreational activity. No one should miss out on the physical, social, or psychological benefits of exercise and her goal is to empower individuals with type 1 Diabetes to realize they can excel in this often intimidating area.