One continuously lived life across the modern history of a disease.
Available for interviews and commentary on memoir, patient reasoning, the history of diabetes care, clinical AI, long-duration lived experience, and the gap between what a record holds and what a person decided.
BiographyShort — for use as printed
Mark E. Paull is a Montréal-based writer and independent researcher who has lived with Type 1 diabetes since 1967 — this is his sixtieth year. His literary and clinical work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, STAT News, The Missouri Review, Intima, Diabetes Care and Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. He is the author of the complete memoir manuscript Come On, Marky.
Subjects he can speak to
What sixty years of diabetes technology changed — and what it did not
The difference between patient data and patient reasoning
Why an apparently wrong decision often contains the expertise
What long-duration patients know that no device can infer
Clinical AI trained on outcomes with the decision provenance stripped out
How lived experience becomes a research question, without an institution behind it
Credentials
- Published author
- Diabetes Care · Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics · STAT News
- Peer reviewer
- Diabetes Care · Clinical Diabetes
- CRC 2026
- Three abstracts accepted through competitive review — one short oral, two e-posters — Philadelphia, 9–11 October 2026
- Literary honours
- Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, The Missouri Review (2025) · Pushcart Prize nomination, Minyan Magazine (2025)
- Continuing medical education
- 7.75 CME hours completed in type 1 diabetes (2025)