DSMA Live with Adam Brown (Close Concerns)

ADAM BROWN

Adam Brown started as a summer intern at Close Concerns in 2010 and returned as a full-time associate in 2011. He is also the co-managing editor of diaTribe (www.diaTribe.us). He graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 pursuing concentrations in marketing and health care management & policy. Adam was a Joseph Wharton and Benjamin Franklin Scholar and completed his senior thesis on the motivational and financial factors associated with optimal diabetes control. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and has worn an insulin pump for the last ten years and a CGM for the past three years. Much of Adam's writing for Close Concerns focuses on diabetes technology, especially CGM, insulin pumps, and the artificial pancreas. Adam is passionate about exercise, nutrition, and wellness and spends his free time outdoors and staying active.