Jenise Wong
University of California-San Francisco, CA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Keeping blood sugar in a healthy range is central to living well with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the form of diabetes in which the body makes no insulin. Devices can help a lot.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Psychology
- Topics
type 1 diabetes
pediatric diabetes
Latinx youth
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Partner with Latinx teens with type 1 diabetes, their families and clinicians through focus groups and semi-structured interviews to adapt a virtual peer group model that promotes starting and continuing diabetes device use.
- Evaluate the feasibility, appropriateness and acceptability of the DREAM virtual peer group program in a single-arm pragmatic trial of 120 Latinx youth aged 13 to under 18 at three California clinics.
- Assess DREAM's preliminary effects on hemoglobin A1c, a measure of average blood sugar, hospital use and patient-centered outcomes, with stakeholder advisory councils guiding the trial.
More about the research
These include continuous glucose monitors, which track blood sugar around the clock, insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery systems that link the two. Yet Latinx youth, the largest marginalized ethnic group of young people with T1D in California, use these devices less often than White youth. They also have higher hemoglobin A1c (A1c), a blood test that reflects average blood sugar over recent months. This project asks whether peer support delivered online can close that gap.
Why it matters
Latinx adolescents with type 1 diabetes in California use insulin pumps and glucose monitors less often and have higher A1c levels than White peers. That gap puts them at greater risk of diabetes complications. A culturally appropriate virtual peer group model could increase their device use and improve glucose control. The model could also be adapted for other ages, regions and racial or ethnic groups.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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Sarah Haynes
University of California-Davis, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
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Talia Hitt
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Test whether timing an oral glucose tolerance test to match each person's chronotype changes measured glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, in a randomized crossover study of late and non-late chronotype youth aged 17–23.
The school
University of California-San Francisco: 89 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 164 research doctorates a year.
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