Jay H. Shubrook, DO: I'm Jay Shubrook, DO, a professor at Touro University, California, and a primary care diabetologist. We are going to continue our series, Everyday Diabetes: Practical Management for Primary Care. Today I'm delighted to have with me Rayhan Lal, MD, a senior fellow in adult and pediatric endocrinology at Stanford University. He also has a unique background in that he studied electrical engineering and computer science as an undergrad. You will find that this is relevant to our topic today, which is do-it-yourself (DIY) closed-loop insulin pump systems. This may not be familiar to you yet, but it is a topic that I think we are going to need to become familiar with. Dr Lal, thanks for joining us today. I know that the subject of diabetes is near and dear to your heart. Tell me about your diabetes story.
Rayhan A. Lal, MD: I've had diabetes for several decades now—I won't age myself by going into the specifics. I was always interested in technology from a young age, and as a result, I decided to pursue electrical engineering and computer science at University of California, Berkeley. During that training, unfortunately, my two younger sisters also developed type 1 diabetes.
