From CGM access to practical use
Access to a continuous stream of glucose information is only part of making CGM useful. People also need a way to interpret patterns, understand context, discuss what they see with their care team, and incorporate the information into everyday life. Sugar Surfing addressed this educational and practical usability problem.
Kevin worked with a clinician co-author to communicate pattern recognition, context, and practical self-management concepts. His contribution includes authorship, product architecture, design execution, and commercial packaging. This work supports the adoption and use of CGM through education and communication, alongside his separate experience with connected-device and clinical research systems.
Direct-to-patient and provider impact
The book and its associated educational activity reach people with type 1 diabetes and families directly, while also serving clinicians and other professionals who support CGM use. Kevin’s career record describes print and digital publishing, digital media and community tools, institutional bulk purchases, and systems supporting workshop marketing and billing. Related Dynamic Diabetes Management nonprofit activity sought to expand patient and professional education.
Kevin identifies the work as an ongoing contribution to CGM uptake and usability in type 1 diabetes: making continuous data more understandable, giving patients and providers shared language, and connecting technical capability with practical use. The contribution therefore spans patient activation, provider communication, education, and implementation, as well as publishing.
Dexcom bulk purchases for sales and prescriber education
Kevin reports that Dexcom purchased Sugar Surfing in bulk for two purposes: educating its sales representatives and giving copies to prescribing endocrinologists. This identifies a specific manufacturer purchase and educational distribution channel for the book, alongside its direct reach to patients and families.
The connection adds professional and commercial context to Kevin’s co-authorship: the CGM manufacturer purchased the work for internal education and distribution to clinicians who prescribe its products. The purchase and intended uses are recorded from Kevin’s firsthand account. The public book sources identify the work and its authors; they do not independently verify the Dexcom transaction. No quantity, purchase value, date, measured prescribing effect, or personal ownership of the purchase negotiation is asserted here. The account also does not establish that Kevin personally delivered training to Dexcom staff.
Continuing reach and relevance
MediSelf Press remains the publishing imprint behind the original work and its renewed availability. Sugar Surfing continues to be available to readers, and Kevin’s ongoing publishing and community activity sustains a route to patient and provider education. The professional contribution extends beyond the original publication date.
Current responsibilities include product packaging, expert collaboration, customer experience, commerce, fulfillment, and audience development. Those activities keep an established CGM education resource accessible and connect its content with the people who use or recommend it.
Evidence and attribution
The identifiable public evidence is the book, its co-authorship, and the publishing and educational activity. Kevin’s account describes its contribution to CGM uptake and practical usability. Educational contribution is distinct from a measured adoption-rate increase, a device-performance result, or a quantified clinical outcome.
The archive does not assign an unverified aggregate sales figure to a particular edition or channel. It also does not present the book as evidence that Kevin designed a CGM sensor or performed a specific manufacturer’s engineering work. His Dexcom clinical-integration record documents a different contribution.
Sources and record basis
- Published workSugar Surfing · Author and book resource
The patient-education work co-authored by Stephen W. Ponder and Kevin L. McMahon and published by MediSelf Press.
- Current professional workMediSelf Press
Kevin’s publishing imprint and current publishing activity.
Sugar Surfing supports co-authorship, patient/provider education, and Kevin’s reported contribution to CGM uptake and practical use. Kevin reports Dexcom bulk purchases for sales representative education and distribution to prescribing endocrinologists, establishing a reported manufacturer purchase and educational channel. The public book sources do not independently verify that transaction. The account does not establish a Dexcom-specific engineering role, employment, personal delivery of staff training, purchase-negotiation ownership, quantities, transaction value, or a measured adoption or prescribing effect. Sugar Surfing supports co-authorship and CGM education. The archive does not establish a randomized trial or quantified clinical or adoption effect for the book. Sugar Surfing documents co-authorship and CGM education. It does not establish manufacturer-specific engineering or sensor-integration work. Kevin reports Dexcom bought Sugar Surfing for staff education and prescriber distribution. Quantities, transaction value, prescribing effects, personal training delivery, and negotiation ownership are not established. The archive documents collaborative CGM integration and education. It does not establish invention or independent engineering of a CGM sensor.