![]() Obviously, being partnered with Sanofi, she is using their products (the Lantus SoloStar insulin pen) and she tells us she’s using a fast-acting insulin pen, too. Of, course, there was a little “scripted, Sanofi promotional” talk we had to get past, but it was great to get to some real-life stuff beyond the campaign. Her acting and advocacy keeps her quite busy, so we only had about 15 minutes to talk. ![]() We had a chance to chat with Elizabeth by phone recently, the day the documentary was published online and the viewing-tracking began. We were fortunate to have a chance to interview Elizabeth about her D-story and more. It was great seeing and hearing her “Type Awesome” husband share his own thoughts on how he helps her, particularly with the emotional and psychosocial aspects of life with D. In the film she talks about how her initial feelings made her keep it a secret and not share with anyone outside close friends and family. The 15-minute film debuted on at the American Diabetes Association Expo in Los Angeles, CA, and it features Elizabeth and her “co-star” husband, cinematographer Julio Macat. This kind of “diabetes coming out” is the theme of that Diabetes Co-Stars documentary, Strength In Numbers, which emphasizes the message that “you can do this, but you can’t do it alone.” ![]() She was diagnosed with LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes in adults) at age 44, after what she describes as a slow onset, and Elizabeth says it took more than a year for her stop hiding her illness. She stars as herself telling her diabetes story, and how she found the courage after her diagnosis not to hide her diabetes but make it a “natural” part of her life. And in November 2012, she teamed up with Sanofi to create a new diabetes documentary aimed at the importance of having a support network when living with the Big D. Sarah was the recipient of the 2021 Australian Academy of Science Dorothy Hill medal.But not all may realize she’s a type 1 herself since 2005, diagnosed as an adult and once she had already made a name for herself worldwide. She is also passionate about science communication, and regularly comments on all things heatwaves and climate change in both the Australian and international media. She is especially interested in how climate change is altering the health impacts of extreme heat events. Sarah has co-authored 87 publications throughout her career, most of which focus on extreme heat in a changing climate. She is also interested in how natural climate variability drives heatwaves, as well as employing detection and attribution methods to understand how climate change influences specific extremes and their impacts. Sarah has analysed how heatwaves will change under various scenarios of global warming, both over Australia and globally. She leads pioneering research on how to measure heatwaves and their changes in the observational record. ![]() As a climate scientist specialising in extreme events, Sarah’s expertise focuses on heatwaves and event attribution. Sarah was a post-doc at CSIRO during 2009-2011 on the Pacific Climate Change Science Program. She received her PhD in 2010 from the Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, where she also worked from 2011-2020. Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick is a Senior Lecturer/ARC Future Fellow in the School of Science, UNSW Canberra, and a chief investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.
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