the diaTribe Editors
Kelly Close
Editor-in-Chief
Kelly L. Close is Editor-in-Chief of "diaTribe", an e-newsletter for people eager to learn more about better managing diabetes. She is also Founder and Principal of Close Concerns, Inc., a consulting firm devoted to the business of diabetes.
Kelly's passion for the field comes from her extensive professional work as well as from her personal experience as a patient with type 1 diabetes for 20 years. Stemming from her work in the corporate and investment communities, Kelly is a recognized authority on diabetes and a frequent writer and speaker on the subject. In addition to her advisory work, Kelly also sits on the boards of dLife and the Children With Diabetes Foundation. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
James S. Hirsch
Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor James S. Hirsch is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who has lived with type 1 diabetes for twenty-five years. He is a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and also the author of "Cheating Destiny: Living With Diabetes, America's Biggest Epidemic" - a personal and journalistic account of diabetes today, how it is treated, the sky-rocketing impact on society, and the hope for a cure. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sheryl, and their children, Amanda and Garrett.
Ben Kozak
Managing Editor
Ben Kozak became a member of diaTribe in 2010 after graduating from Pomona College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Biology. During his undergraduate years, Ben devoted much of his time outside the classroom to research. As the Beckman Scholar at Pomona, he investigated the role of a novel protein in the vesicle transport cycle. Furthermore, as an intern at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Ben sought to identify genes that confer greater sensitivity to Taxol with the hope that cancer patients expressing these genes could be given less of the drug, thereby minimizing the side effects of the chemotherapy. When not in the lab, Ben was heavily involved in community service work. He served as president for Pomona's Chapter of Mortar Board, a national honors society dedicated to service and leadership, volunteered at several hospitals, and acted as a mentor for Uncommon Good.
Vincent Wu
Managing Editor
Vincent Wu joined diaTribe in 2010 after graduating with Distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Biological Sciences in 2009. During the summers of his undergraduate career, Vincent engaged in research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and at the Heller Sleep Laboratory at Stanford. Outside of the academic setting, he shadowed in the emergency room at Sequoia Hospital and volunteered at an after-school program where he taught lessons on health, physiology, and nutrition.