How Bigfoot Biomedical ’s CEO wants to boost diabetes management

Jeffrey Brewer faced the biggest challenge of his life when his 7-year-old son Sean received a diabetes diagnosis in 2002: Diabetes became the new focus for Brewer’s energy. In his role as CEO at JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) between 2011 and 2014, Brewer forged financial partnerships with industry to drive the development of insulin delivery and glucose monitoring technologies. He joined the founding of Bigfoot Biomedical in 2014 because he felt that industry could and should do more to marry the best of our technologies to automate diabetes management and make them available to the greatest number of people in need. Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing. Brewer returns for a keynote appearance at DeviceTalks Minnesota, June 4–5 in St. Paul, Minn. The post How Bigfoot Biomedical’s CEO wants to boost diabetes management appeared first on MassDevice.
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