Medical Director: Dr. Nicole Sheanon
Nicole Sheanon, MD is a pediatric endocrinologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She cares for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes and other endocrine disorders. She is also active in research to prevent hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes. She has been attending Camp Korelitz since she was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. She was a camper, counselor, unit leader and has been on medical staff for the last 20 years. Camp strongly impacted her life and her ability to accept her type 1 diabetes diagnosis. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for over 30 years and is married with two boys. Her favorite camp activities are tie-dying t-shirts, medical education, and pamper pole.
Medical Director: Dr. Teresa L. Andreone
Teresa L. Andreone, PhD, MD is a Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at St Louis University, SSM Health-Cardinal Glennon Children’s hospital in St. Louis. She cares for the sickest of the sick children and teens in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as her day-job. She has been living well with Type 1 Diabetes for 54 years, and got involved in the ADA Camping Program as a medical student in Chicago in 1991 at Camp Triangle D in Wisconsin. While a resident doctor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital she started volunteering as medical staff at Camp Korelitz in 1994. Then in 1996, Camp Korelitz had no medical director, so she volunteered and has been medical director since that time. Her research has included discovering the mechanism of insulin action at the level of transcription and cloning the DNA and genes for enzymes in the glycolytic and gluconeogenic pathways, PEPCK and glucokinase. More recently she is also medical staff at Diabetes Training Camp, a camp for teen athletes and adults with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and is actively involved in helping to codify algorithms for prevention of hypo- and hyper-glycemia during exercise. Best thing about camp BEING OUTSIDE and watching campers help each other through their necessary diabetes-related rituals: I love it when I hear campers say: if I can do it, you can too !!