Allison Herschede, RN, CDCES -
Lead Diabetes Educator
Allison was diagnosed with T1D at only 18 months old, and has known nothing else. She struggled with diabetes management for 29 long years before learning about low carb, reversing diabetic complications and completely turning her health around.
Allison is a Registered Nurse, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, the author of a book about diabetes and pregnancy, and is the lead diabetes educator at diaVerge. She helps her clients consistently achieve normalized blood sugar levels, dramatically reducing their blood sugar averages and A1c.
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Carol Paiva, RN, BSN, MSN
Carol is a registered nurse and the mother of child who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 4.
Still in the ICU with her son, she read the Pediatrics article "Management of Type 1 Diabetes with a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet" and was able, over the next 5 years, to keep her son’s A1C between 4.6 and 5% by employing low carb, regular insulin, and syringes.
She has a master degree in obstetrics and a neonatology specialty, spending one year working at a NICU. She has also authored several publications.
Carol’s mission is to show that through a low carb lifestyle you can obtain normal blood sugars; that families and kids can thrive, regaining hope for a healthy and joyful life with diabetes.
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Lucy has over 30 years of experience living with type 1 diabetes. At the time of her diagnosis, she received a traditional diabetes education that emphasized high carbohydrate intake as part of her treatment.
When she discovered low carb in 2017, a light of hope opened up for her, as she was able to achieve good results in managing diabetes for the very first time.
Lucy holds a Diabetes Educator Certificate through IDF and a Diploma as a Patient Expert in Cardio-Metabolic Diseases from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain) as well as an ADA Diabetes Management Training for Mental Health Providers. In addition, she has a Law Degree from the University of Oviedo with a Postgraduate in Health Law and Bioethics, Patients' Rights (UNED).
Pat Rowe, PH.D., MPH - community & tech advisor
Patrick was diagnosed with T1D in 1991 at 13 years of age. Father to one child with T1D (age 7) and another in the early stages of T1D not yet on insulin (age 5). Until about ten years ago Patrick managed his T1D in the typical way and maintained ‘good’ blood sugar control but with constant large swings from low to high. Switching to a low-carb eating strategy improved his glucose control and virtually eliminated the scary lows and constant highs.
Patrick’s interest in science, health, and T1D led him to pursue a degree in biology, Masters in Public Health, Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine and then a postdoctoral fellowship studying type 1 diabetes. Realizing his passion for helping others with diabetes, he decided to change the direction of his career and is now a Certified Health Coach.
Learn more about Pat here.
KORY SEDER - Diabetes Solution Study group lead
Kory is a lifelong athlete and health advocate. After decades of competitive sports, Kory was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2012 at 33 years of age
Thanks to low carb, Kory has managed to keep his a1c between 4.6 and 5.3% since shortly after diagnosis, while living a busy life, starting a family, and completing two additional Ironman races with normal blood sugar levels.
Kory has a background as a biochemistry research scientist, but left the lab to follow his passion for health. He was a Nutrition Counselor for a functional medicine practice from 2013 to 2016, and he and his wife opened Good Food - Low Carb Cafe in 2017.
Kory currently focuses in on disseminating the wealth of information within Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution book and can be found running the Diabetes Solution Study Group by diaVerge.
Learn more about Kory here.
Lisa La Nasa, founder & CEO of diaVerge
Lisa founded diaVerge Diabetes in 2015 after her own personal discovery of the empowerment and complete lifestyle transformation that can come from gaining better control of type 1 diabetes.
Encouraged by her husband to write about her incredible health improvements, diaVerge was ‘born’ while Lisa was living in the middle of Argentina, after 13 years of daily struggle with T1D.
Lisa holds a Diabetes Paraprofessional Level II certificate through ADCES and Diabetes Educator Certificate through IDF.
To read more about Lisa’s story and her dramatic health transformation that lead to an A1c reduction of over 3% (from 7.8% A1c to 4.4% ) after only 4 months of changing how she managed diabetes, click here.
To learn how Lisa’s story has built the vision and mission of diaVerge Diabetes Education & Coaching, read this recent feature in Nasdaq.
diaVerge is currently adding to our team and forming a medical advisory committee.
More information forthcoming!