Meet Pietro Marsala, the first US commercial airline pilot with type 1 diabetes

Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes · Apr 25, 2023 · 1m

Long thought an impossible, development people with type 1 diabetes are now working as commercial airline pilots. The very first to be certified in the US , Pietro Marsala says he decided to forge ahead while working as a flight instructor, taking inexperienced student pilots up while he was in control.

Pietro will share what happened next, how a mountain of data gradually won of skeptics, his in flight diabetes routine and what he's up to now. You might be a passenger on his next flight!

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