Jennifer Shine Dyer, MD, MPH, is a pediatric endocrinologist, social media enthusiast (@EndoGoddess), app developer, and mobile health entrepreneur in Ohio with a patient-centered focus looking to make health outcomes better for people living with diabetes or other chronic diseases. In partnership with mobile software startup Duet Health Eproximiti, she has developed the EndoGoddess App available for download since September 2011 for patients with diabetes who require insulin therapy based on BJ Fogg's health behavior model with the following features: iTunes reward motivation, a unique social business plan, daily inspiring quotes submitted from the diabetes online community, multi-media informative diabetes content, social media links. Duet Health has been listed by Rock Health technology accelerator as a health startup to follow and Dr. Dyer's entrepreneurship efforts have been written about extensively both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Dyer also actively engages and speaks nationally about healthcare social media including at the recent South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in March 2012. She is known to many on twitter as @EndoGoddess and has a youtube channel which she uses primarily for advocacy. Dr. Dyer feels that 'good health is social' and that social media provides opportunities for physicians to connect people with authentic improvements in their wellbeing and health which far outweigh the easily-managed perceived risks.

Additionally, Dr. Dyer is passionate about health policy and translating a balanced, evidence-based approach to its analysis to assure that predicted patient-centered, quality outcomes are indeed realized. She was recently invited to participate in the very first congressional facebook hackathon in the US House of Representatives in December 2011 to brainstorm technical solutions for making congress more transparent and social to its constituents. She also currently participates as a writer for the non-partisan, evidence-based health policy blog 'Policy Prescriptions': http://www.policyprescriptions.org/

Finally, Dr. Dyer is also an experienced nutrition researcher with several original peer-reviewed publications, specifically with regards to the influence of macronutrient food components on metabolism during early fetal development. She is actively involved in local foods advocacy in Columbus, Ohio through partnership with non-profit organization 'Local Matters' and is a member of Slow Foods Columbus. In 2011, she was selected to participate on the Franklin County Local Foods Council.

Dr. Dyer is a board-certified physician in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology previously at Nationwide Children's Hospital affiliated with The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio where she recently earned her MPH degree in health behavior studies. She received her medical degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2000 which was then followed by pediatric internship, residency, and then pediatric endocrinology specialty training in 2000-2006 at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has recently been selected as one of '2010 America's Top Pediatricians' by the Consumers Research Council of America as well as selection by the OrganizedWisdom Medical Review Board as a top expert curator helping people discover the best health information online. Dr. Dyer is a media-trained pediatric endocrinology physician expert on Dr. Oz's interactive online physician network Sharecare and a frequent health expert on both local and national television media as well as health documentary films.

Contact Information:
Blog: http://endogoddess.blogspot.com/
Company Website: http://www.duethealth.com/

 

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