National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators

The Future of Diabetes Education: Lost at Sea?

By MikeH on March 18, 2013

When we heard that the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) just released its newest three-year strategic plan, we were excited to learn how they’d be charting their course ahead for the coming years. But upon reviewing the document, we were mostly confused and more than a little disappointed.
What seems glaringly missing is the very patient perspective that could ensure the organization’s relevance and long-term survival…
At only eight pages and 2,000 words, our…

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A Word from the 2013 Diabetes Educator of the Year

By AmyT on November 23, 2012

Like us, you may wonder what qualifies a CDE to win the national award for Diabetes Educator of the Year?
Joanne Rinker was recently named Diabetes Educator of the Year for 2013 (they’re picked in advance of the coming year). She’s a North Carolina-based dietician-educator who’s helped build a unique program for spreading diabetes education across her state. She also focuses on the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss, AND she works as a coach…

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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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