Thanks to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for their dedication to finding a cure.

Thank you to Jeff Hitchcock and Keith Brooks. Without their support the KidsRPumping web site would not be possible.

Thank you to Red Hat for sponsoring the latest Open Source Stories film,"Opening the Loop: Autonomy, Access, and Insulin", which explores how open source is giving Type 1 diabetics and their caregivers more control over their devices, their insulin, and their illness.
Thank you to the following organizations for creating and supporting this amazing effort! The Nightscout Foundation, Open Insulin Foundation, OpenAPS, and Tidepool. Here is some additional backstory and background information RE the Red Hat video above How open source is making diabetes more manageable.
The open source automated insulin delivery movement (known as OpenAPS) has helped revolutionize diabetes technologies and spurred faster development of additional commercial technologies, making a difference for people around the world. In this short, powerful talk, OpenAPS founder Dana Lewis shares three key insights to “upskill” your collaboration—and shares why it’s humans—not methodologies—that make the difference.
Thanks to IBM United States employees and retirees for donating over $550,000 to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) via the IBM Employee Charitable Contributions Campaign (ECCC).To read more about the IBM Employee Charitable Contributions Campaign (ECCC) please go here, and to watch a video please go here. Jeffry wrote four LinkedIn articles after he left IBM on how IBM US employees and retirees could still donate to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) via the IBM Employee Charitable Contributions Campaign (ECCC). To read the LinkedIn articles for the respective years click on the following 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020.
If you are an employee or retiree of any of these United Way partner companies or organizations and would be interested in setting up a similar payroll deduction program please contact me via LinkedIn and I can explain to you how it works. Thanks to IBM United States for donating the following equipment and dollars in the table below via the IBM Fund for Community Service/IBM Community Grants based on Jeffry's volunteer work for the DRI. On October 16, 2006, IBM South Florida had its the 2006 IBM Employee Charitable Contributions Campaign (ECCC) kick off meeting. After the meeting several ECCC eligible organization had booths to discuss the organizations with South Florida IBM'ers. Here is a photo of Jeffry with Barbara Singer of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF).	| Click here to enlarge the photo

Thank you to the Children with Diabetes (CWD) web site. The CWD provides a wealth of high-quality, timely, and extremely useful information for parents and kids. Thank you to the Children with Diabetes (CWD) web site for being true advocates of kids with diabetes! At the 2009 Children With Diabetes "Friends for Life" conference, the Jeff Hitchcock Distinguished Service Award was presented to Ellen Ullman, who has devoted over 20 years to diabetes advocacy – and further, who has devoted 20 years to helping Jeff Hitchcock and CWD report on new research and information to share with CWD readers. Ellen was totally surprised – and for once, speechless!, Please scroll to pages 3-4 of PDF to read about Ellen's award.

Jeff Hitchcock presents Ellen Ullman with the Jeff Hitchcock Distinguished Service Award

Ellen is a member of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Squad
(Note..You will need to scroll down to page 10 to read the article.)

On March 16-17, 2010 the US FDA held hearings on "CLINICAL ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS FOR POINT OF CARE BLOOD GLUCOSE METERS".
Ellen spoke at both days of the hearing. For the FDA general description of the hearings go here.
For a copy of Ellen's FDA presentation "How meters are used at home and how consumers choose meters" go here.
To read Ellen's FDA testimony on March 16, 2010 go here.
To read Ellen's FDA testimony on March 17, 2010 go here.
Scott Strumello was at the FDA hearings, and you can go here for his review of the hearings and Ellen's presentation.
To read and subscribe to Scott's great blog please go here.

Ellen presenting a check to Barbara Singer, at the time Director of Special Projects at Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, in the amount of, $100,000 from the then Children with Diabetes Foundation at the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation's PEP (Parents Empowering Parents) Squad Mini Conference May 7, 2011. Ellen read the following aloud: Barbara, In 1989, when our son was 15 months old and we were in Miami Children’s Hospital and finally out of ICU and on the regular floor learning about how to care for a toddler with diabetes, I felt lost, bewildered and in shock over the diagnosis. I asked the social worker to put me in touch with another mother who had been through this. She very wisely put us in touch with you and you spoke to me on the phone the same or next day when we were still in the hospital. Shortly thereafter we attended your support groups in a school in south Miami, where we met other families also raising children with diabetes. So, thanks to your efforts Barbara, we have always felt supported in this daunting task. You continue to be a beacon of hope and a most amazing (and very humble) role model, and I feel especially lucky to be able to stand before all these parents today, not only to thank you for all you have done for us and so many other families, but also for introducing our family to the Diabetes Research Institute. I am not sure exactly when we made the transition from being solely focused on getting through each day with the diabetes in our lives, to gradually getting involved and helping to do our part in moving research forward through raising awareness and necessary funding for the cure focused research taking place at DRI.

Ellen's Diabetes Advocacy Awareness Month video.  

Here is a chronological list of:

     a. Jeffry's community involvement with and without IBM and numerous IBM related work articles/videos
     b. several articles/videos on Zachary and the Ullman family

Year	Donations, Support, Informational and Related Items
1989	IBM cash grant of $ 1,500 to La Leche League for reproduction of material in Braille
1990	$1,800 IBM cash grant for the publication of a brochure, "Important Facts for School Personnel about Diabetes" used for South Florida schools sponsored by IBM Fund for Community Service (NOTE IBM logo bottom right on first page) Miami Herald 1990 article on Jeffry and family, IBM, and the Diabetes Research Institute Jeffry and Zachary on cover of Diabetes Research Institute Pathways (1990 Annual issue)
1991	Jeffry and Zachary on cover of DRI overview trifold DRI newsletter article on IBM/Jeffry/Zachary IBM Fund for Community Service "Important Facts for School Personnel about Diabetes" grant
1992	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for a desktop PC and laser printer to assist in Islet Transplantation research Below is a video of Jeffry that appeared on IBM's Communication Network (ICN) in June 1992. The IBM Communication Network (ICN) was in place at IBM prior to general use of the internet and corporate intranets. The video was done at a point in IBM's history prior to IBM migrating from a primarily hardware company to a primarily services/software company of today. This video was also made prior to the IBM acquisition of Lotus and when Wang was still in business (Wang has since gone out of business).
1993	$1,000 IBM cash grant to assist Nicklaus Children's Hospital Foundation sponsored parent support group
1994	$1,000 IBM cash grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for a Recirculating Cooler for Islet Transplantation research
1995	$1,000 IBM cash grant to assist Baptist Health Foundation sponsored parent support group
1996	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) of a desktop PC and laser printer for the Fast Track Center for Translational Research Jeffry and Zachary in IBM "Southern Pride" Magazine February 1996 . (NOTE: Please scroll down to second page in the PDF)
1997	You can see the Ullman family on Nick News (air date was 3/23/97). Ellen sent email to Linda Ellerbee and asked that she feature children on insulin pumps (because back then it wasn't as popular as it is now and doctors were telling families children were too young to pump). So Nick News came and filmed at our house and at the endocrinologist .... 2 other kids are also featured in the Nick News segment. Jeffry recognized as subject matter expert, representing Travel Industry Solution Unit, in IBM 1997 Annual Report (scroll down to second page)
1998	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) of a Thinkpad to assist in worldwide diabetes education programs "What's Up Doc" "A kid's eye view of the Diabetes Research Institute"
2000	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) of a Thinkpad to assist in communicating with families affected by diabetes and enablement of parent support groups GREAT KIDS...Boy using Halloween to help others As part of the DRI "Treat Me To a Cure" campaign Zachary appeared on a West Palm Beach, FL local TV news program. The segment aired on 10/31/2000. Note the segment was taped at 6:15 AM! Video below is Japanese customer video on the IBM software product called IBM Electronic Media Management System (EMMS) that Jeffry supported For more info on EMMS go here. This was the FIRST Children with Diabetes (CWD) "Friends for Life" event in Orlando (June 2000). The Ullman family was in attendance. Can you find your son/daughter in this photo?
2002	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) of a Thinkpad to assist in communicating with families affected by diabetes and enablement of parent support groups
2003	$1,000 IBM cash grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) to assist DRI sponsored parent support groups Zachary on IBM Employee Charitable Campaign Contribution (ECCC) intranet web site (NOTE: Please scroll down to second page in the PDF) Cell wars...As the debate over embryonic stem cell research intensifies, Florida scientists are fighting for their right to clone
2004	The American Diabetes Association 2004 Scientific Sessions were held in Orlando, Florida from June 4-8, 2004 and offered an opportunity to learn about the latest in diabetes research, meet with researchers and clinicians, and meet with industry representatives.Children with Diabetes had a small booth to show our web site to the 18,000 people who attended from all over the world. Photo of Ellen Ullman Staffing Children with Diabetes Booth. IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for a desktop PC to assist in Islet Transplantation research Robert Pearlman, President of Diabetes Research Institute on IBM Intranet Here is PDF of IBM award Jeffry received for 50+ hours of community service to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) This is a press release on the inclusion of IBM Speech Technology in GM OnStar - New OnStar Digital Hardware Offers Improved Voice Recognition, Continuous Digit Dialing
2005	$1,000 IBM cash grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) to assist DRI sponsored parent support groups Local teens go searching for a diabetes cure Diabetic children will lobby in D.C. for more research PalmSource Expands Java Support with IBM WebShere
2006	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for a IBM Infoprint 1552 printer to assist in Islet Transplantation research
2007	$1,000 IBM cash grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) to assist DRI sponsored parent support groups
2008	$1,000 IBM cash grant for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Squad The President's Volunteer Service Award, established in 2003, recognizes American individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to volunteer service as measured by the number of service hours performed. The award is issued by the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, created by President George W. Bush to help foster a culture of service, citizenship and a sense of responsibility by encouraging outstanding volunteer service and civic participation. As a leadership organization in the award program, IBM presents the award annually to On Demand Community volunteers with more than 100 hours of volunteer time in the prior calendar year. Here is copy of President's Volunteer Service Award and Pin (Bronze level) to Jeffry for 250+ hours of cumulative service to the DRI.
2009	In 2009 the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) held a tour for Diabetes bloggers and thought leaders. Here are 2 photos from that tour. Ellen and Jeffry attended IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for two (2) Lenovo Thinkpads to assist in Islet Transplantation research. DRI press release Boca Raton Couple Go Above And Beyond To Help The Diabetes Research Institute Find A Cure For Their Son Boca Raton Magazine May 2009 article "Dealing with Diabetes. " Jeffry celebrated his 25th year anniversary at IBM....here is his letter and certificate from IBM CEO, Sam Palmisano. IBM intranet article "Volunteer of the month: Searching for a cure August 2009 – Jeffry Ullman – Florida ." Jeffry is mentioned in Stanley Litow Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs September newsletter RE his IBM ECCC efforts.
2010	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for two (2) InfoPrint Color 1824 printers to assist in Islet Transplantation research.
2011	IBM Equipment grant to Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) for one InfoPrint Color 1824 printer to assist in Islet Transplantation research and one Little Tikes Young Explorer. The Greater IBM Connection is a worldwide business and social network created by and for current and former IBM employees. Members connect with current and former colleagues, participate in events and forums, learn about job opportunities, and more. The Greater IBM Connection highlights the community service of former IBMers. Go here for the PDF of the article "Celebration of Service: Greater IBMer Jeffry Ullman Leverages IBM Grant Program for Diabetes Research " . (scroll down to second page)
2012	Ellen and Jeffry at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) 38th Love and Hope Ball in Hollywood, FL.
2021	Jeffry joins Red Hat as Customer Success Executive (CSE). Here is image of his Red Hat. Red Hat announced the acquisition of Red Hat by IBM in 2018 via this press release: IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT, COMPLETELY CHANGING THE CLOUD LANDSCAPE AND BECOMING WORLD’S #1 HYBRID CLOUD PROVIDER

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