By
AmyT on
August 5, 2011
Allison and I have been at the AADE (American Association of Diabetes Educators) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas since Wednesday. It’s over 100 degrees outside, massively air-conditioned and buzzing with energy here inside the Mandalay Bay resort.
Sources tell us there are over 7,000 attendees this year, and nearly 300 exhibitors — which kind of beats the pants off the already-overwhelming 185 companies that exhibited at the ADA conference in June. Why the gap? Educators…
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By
AmyT on
September 30, 2010
Elaine Massaro believes in the power of treating people with diabetes in group settings. She’s an RN and CDE who was recently honored as 2010 Diabetes Educator of the Year by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) for her success in “improving the effectiveness and efficiency of diabetes patient education by using this (group) technique with patients at Northwestern University in Chicago.” She’s also one of an elite group of CDEs teaching the use…
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Diana Pihos is the Director of Communications for the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE). She was somewhat caught off-guard at last month’s Diabetes Social Media Summit, when our group barraged her with questions about the state of diabetes education in this country. I asked Diana to kindly offer us a recap of what she heard there, and what her organization intends to do about it.
A Guest Post by Diana Pihos of the AADE…
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