diabetes educators

AADE Progress Report: What They’ve Done to Improve Diabetes Education

By AmyT on September 29, 2011

For years now, we’ve complaining about the state of diabetes education in this country: overworked educators, near-impossible hoops that prospective CDEs have to jump through, and difficulties in getting reimbursed by insurance companies (so what else is new?). Who read my big exposé article on this issue waaay back in 2007? 
We DOC advocates met with representatives from the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) at the second Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit in 2010, but that…

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AADE Training: Why Patients Don’t Listen to Their Diabetes Educators

By AllisonN on August 16, 2011

Ever wonder how diabetes educators are trained to deal with us patients?  That’s the most intriguing thing for us about covering the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual conference. Out of 15,000 attendees, we could probably count the non-CDE attendees on one hand. Not many actual patients are in attendance, so these CDEs end up talking and learning about “us” in absentia.
One session title that particularly intrigued us was titled “Dealing with Patients Who…

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One-on-One vs. Group Medical Visits: Best of All Worlds?

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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National Insulin Infusion Site Management Week

By AmyT on August 18, 2010

Did you know there is now a National Infusion Site Awareness Week? It’s all part of a new awareness campaign brought to us by Roche Diabetes, coming up from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.  Publicity stunt by a pump manufacturer? Perhaps. But as anyone who pokes themselves regularly with needles full of insulin knows, infusion site management is an important and oft-overlooked challenge of life with diabetes.
In a recent press release, Roche shared that…

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