Program context
The South Texas Diabetes and Asthma Network included a study of children with diabetes using mobile wireless technology for remote clinical monitoring and intervention. Kevin’s CV places this work from January 2006 through February 2009. It identifies a competitive $455,000 USDA telemedicine grant supporting the program.
The regional setting connected pediatric specialty care with patients outside the clinic. Wireless information and practical support had to function across the participant’s daily environment and the care organization’s response process.
Kevin’s contribution
Kevin was a primary contributing author of the clinical protocol. His responsibilities included outpatient technical support, GPRS glucose-monitoring devices, and patient outcomes analysis. The work combined proposal development, clinical research design, and delivery.
It also formed part of a longer relationship with Driscoll Children’s Hospital, its research collaborators, and South Texas community-health programs. Those relationships contributed to the subsequent family/community engagement and population-health work.
Technology and intervention
Remote transmission gave the program a route to receive glucose information without waiting for an office visit. The program then needed relevant review, support, and feedback. Kevin’s wider Diabetech architecture connected mobile diagnostics, information processing, and timely communication with patients and caregivers.
The work demonstrates grant-supported implementation experience. The award amount in the career record is a grant figure, not Kevin’s personal compensation, a revenue total, or proof of a particular clinical effect.
Connection to the research record
The 2012 Diabetes Care paper is a separate identifiable outcome publication within the broader Driscoll/Diabetech research history. This archive does not automatically attribute that trial’s result to every USDA-funded activity. Each project retains its own scope and evidence.
Together, the records show experience working with hospital teams, public funding, clinical protocols, connected devices, outpatient support, and data analysis. That combination is relevant to organizations translating an evidence-generation plan into an operating program.
Sources and record basis
- Peer-reviewed researchDiabetes Care · 2012 randomized controlled trial
A 12-month study of 48 children evaluated automated glucose-data collection and family feedback. Kevin McMahon is a co-author. The findings concern the intervention studied; they are not a claim about every later product.