Amy Tenderich

Amy Tenderich is a journalist, book author and Health 2.0 expert based in San Francisco, CA. She began her career as a journalist, and has experience in magazine editing, marketing and PR. Following two stints overseas and 13 years of communications work in the Silicon Valley technology industry, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in May 2003, and subsequently launched DiabetesMine.com™, “a gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes” — for which she recently received the LillyforLife Achievement Award™ for diabetes journalism.

DiabetesMine.com is now considered the best-read diabetes blog in the country, and ranks in the Top 10 of the World’s Top Blogs in Health & Medicine on the HealthCare100 Index. Amy and DiabetesMine.com have been featured in Newsweek, BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, the UK Guardian, NPR’s Future Tense, TechCrunch, and a number of other influential blogs and publications. Amy is also Community Manager of a new social networking site for diabetics called DiabeticConnect.com.

She recently collaborated with Dr. Richard Jackson, a leading physician from Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, to co-author the book, “Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes” — hailed as the first-ever straightforward guidebook providing a clear strategy for living well with diabetes and avoiding the long-term health damage it can cause.

As Co-Founder of TnT Initiatives, LLC, Amy is a regular contributor to a number of leading diabetes publications, and provides consulting services to pharmaceutical companies and healthcare technology innovators.

She holds a B.A. in Journalism from California State University, Long Beach, and an M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.