Southern Florida Chapter

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Breakthrough T1D Southern Florida | Rockin to a Cure 2025
DAER: Hard Rock Hotel, Hollywood, FL

We all have a story of how T1D has changed our lives. As a Breakthrough T1D advocate, I use my voice to tell lawmakers our story of living with T1D and why research must continue.
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South Florida Youth Ambassador Program
Exciting News!!! Thanks to two of our amazing youth volunteers and their moms, in the South Florida market, our Youth Ambassador program is back! We are launching in Miami and Fort Lauderdale as a pilot, with plans to make the…
Florida Cure Diabetes License Plate
We are excited to announce there will be a “Cure Diabetes” license plate available in the state of Florida! Proceeds from the Cure Diabetes license plate are equally distributed to the following organizations to support research for a cure for…
The Poetic Diabetic: VSA and the Kennedy Center: A Program for Emerging Disabled Playwrights 7/26/24
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The Poetic Diabetic: My New Favorite Diabetic Accommodation: The Universal AAP Pass – Oliver Shane 1/9/24
Hello, welcome back to the Poetic Diabetic. Diabetes is not fun. The restless mornings spent fixing medical devices, the constant chime of alarms, the exhaustion from both hypo and hyperglycemia; diabetes is just simply not fun no matter what angle…
The Poetic Diabetic: “Not all sodas are created equal” 11/2/23
Hello, welcome back to Poetic Diabetic! As I try to survive junior year of high school (a fate I would not wish upon some of my worst enemies), I have not had quite as much time to write super complex…
Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress Pt. 4 (Capitol Hill) – Oliver Shane 8/28/23
Hello! Welcome back to the Poetic Diabetic! Across the last few weeks, I wrote what was supposed to be a three-part series on my experience with Children’s Congress…but surprise, there’s one more part! I ended up having so much to…
Leadership
Whether you donate your time or dollars, life-changing breakthroughs in T1D treatments and therapies couldn’t happen without you.
Kathy Cleeland
Southern Florida Executive Director
Jeane Rosmonowski
Board President
Scott Meece
Board President, General Counsel and Senior VP - StarKist
Jim Gitkin
Board President, Founding Partner, Salpeter Gitkin, LLP
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