Life for a Child
Steering Committee

Rowan Clifford
Rowan is the Chief Executive Officer of Diabetes NSW & ACT and a business leader with a background in the Allied Health, Disability and Human Services sectors. Rowan completed undergraduate and post graduate studies in psychology, before undertaking an MBA to help further support his leadership journey.
Rowan is Chair of the Blue Mountains Food Cooperative board (Australia’s largest food cooperative), and sits on the board of Mountains Youth Services Team. Rowan believes it is important to always act with authenticity and conviction in everything you do as a leader.

Dr. Graham Ogle
Graham is Life for a Child’s General Manager and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney. He trained in paediatric endocrinology in Australia, before working in Papua New Guinea and Cambodia, delivering health care to vulnerable communities for 6 years.
In 2000, he and Professor Martin Silink established the Life for a Child program with the vision: No child should die of diabetes.

Dr. Julia von Oettingen
Julia is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor at McGill University, and a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Santé supported Clinician-Scientist at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute.
Julia has a passion for pediatric endocrinology and global health and is the founding medical director of Kay Mackenson Clinic- a Life for a Child partner centre in Haiti.

Stéphane Besançon
Stéphane is a biologist and nutritionist working in Mali, with expertise in nutritional physiopathology and international development.
In 2001 Stéphane co-founded the international NGO Santé Diabète with a group of specialists in diabetes, health and development with the aim of improving the prevention and management of diabetes in Africa.

Dana Lewis
Dana is a founder of the open source artificial pancreas system (OpenAPS) movement, working to make safe and effective artificial pancreas technology more widely available globally.
Dana has lived with type 1 diabetes since 2002, and is a passionate advocate for making sure individuals with type 1 diabetes have access to insulin and other supplies, including education, in order to thrive while living with diabetes.

Dr. Ragnar Hanas
Ragnar is a consultant pediatrician at NU Hospital Group, Sweden and associate professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
A past president of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), Ragnar has dedicated his career to improving the lives of young people living with type 1 diabetes and has taught in many countries around the world.

Kelsey Grodzovsky
Kelsey is an expert in the operations and logistics of humanitarian supply-chains and holds a Master of Public Health with an emphasis in Global Health and Humanitarian Assistance from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
As the International Program Manager at Direct Relief she specializes in collaborating with healthcare providers and organizations to deliver medicines and medical aid to vulnerable communities in 95 countries.

Dr. Mark Barone
Mark is a diabetes educator and journalist. He holds a PhD in Human Physiology and has more than two decades of experience in developing health programs and undertaking research, and empowering people with type 1 to become change-makers.
Mark is currently Vice-President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Founder and General Manager of the Intersectoral Forum to Fight NCDs in Brazil (ForumDCNTs), and Manager of other programs at the ADJ Diabetes Brazil.
Life for a Child USA Inc.
Board of Directors

Dr. Larry Deeb

Dr. Anju Goel

Wayne Edwards

Emma Naughton

Dana Lewis

Manuel Hernández
After his diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in 2002, Manny became an advocate committed to making sure nobody touched by diabetes ever feels alone. He has been a devoted supporter of Life for a Child since his tenure at Diabetes Hands Foundation, the NGO that cradled TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes. He was an executive at Livongo and Tidepool. Manny is VP of Customer Success at Thrivable, a healthcare market research agency. He also serves on the board of The Diabetes Link and the National Advocacy Committee for ADA.
Life for a Child
Program Team

Dr. Graham Ogle

Emma Klatman

Anabel Ung

Rachel Clayton

Harry Cramer

Dr. Jayanthi Maniam

Cecile Eigenmann

Ching-Fang Cho
