DECA Executive Director Terry posing for a photo with family members on a dock: wife, daughter, son-in-law, grandchild, and dog
Media Release
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Diabetes camps provide summer fun and independence
DECA Executive Director Terry Ackley, and his wife, Carol, volunteered at Camp Seale Harris for several years before he was hired as the Camp’s executive director in 1995. He served in that role until joining DECA in 2012. Pictured here: Terry and Carol (right) with daughter, Emily (left), son-in-law, Patrick, and granddaughter, Vivienne.
Screenshot of Diabetes Care showing the title of the findings from TrialNet's Abatacept Prevention Study
Study Findings
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Study findings shed new light on abatacept’s impact on type 1 diabetes progression, suggest direction for additional research
Findings from the TrialNet Abatacept Prevention Study, published online in Diabetes Care, provide important new information about how abatacept impacts type 1 diabetes (T1D) progression and suggest direction for additional research.
TrialNet participant Amanda Gilchrist along with her spouse and two young children pause for a family picture in a field of yellow sunflowers
Participant Spotlight
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Participant spotlight: Amanda Gilchrist
The Gilchrist family loves to read. When Emmie (pictured bottom right) was first diagnosed with T1D at age 4, Amanda asked her school librarian for all the books that had characters with T1D. There weren’t a lot. Now, when Amanda and Emmie meet authors (in person or online), they ask them to put characters with T1D into their next stories.
