National Diabetes Education Program 
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Diabetes Educator Links NDEP’s Diabetes HealthSense to Improved Patient Outcomes
As National Diabetes Month Approaches, Diabetes Educator Debbie Zlomek lives the National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) 2015 campaign message—Diabetes Education and Support: Everyone Has a Role. What’s Yours?—through her work at Pottstown (Pa.) Medical Specialists Inc. (PMSI) with help from the NDEP’s Diabetes HealthSense.
Zlomek serves more than 900 patients at PMSI, a privately owned physician practice with seven sites that serves a tri-county region in Eastern Pennsylvania. She began her wo...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - October 2, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
September Partner Spotlight
The Road to Health Toolkit Hits the Border City of El Paso, Texas
The workshop welcomed more than 40 participants.
The National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) Road to Health Toolkit found its way this past summer to a workshop in El Paso, Texas, where diabetes is prevalent in this border city.
In June, a group in El Paso began their instruction to become “Promotoras de Salud,” or certified community h...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - September 4, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
July Partner Spotlight
NDEP Partner Elizabeth Venditti, Ph.D. Relies on NDEP Resources to Support Lifestyle Change
For the University of Pittsburgh’s Elizabeth Venditti, Ph.D. the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has become an integral component of her work to help people change their lifestyles and manage their diabetes.
A clinical health psychologist, Venditti found her way to a career largely focused on diabetes prevention through her early work and research in obesity back in the mid-1990s with Rena Wing, PhD.
“I was always very interested not only in the idea...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - July 3, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
May Partner Spotlight
NDEP Resource Set to Hit ‘70s Song Helps Novant Health Educate Older Adults about Diabetes
Multiple Grammy winner Paul Simon might be surprised to learn one of his biggest solo hits influenced a diabetes presentation in North Carolina nearly four decades later after he released it.
That’s what happened when Marcy Shipwash, a registered nurse and wellness and disease navigator at Novant Health’s Thomasville (N.C.) Medical Center, used the song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” as the backdrop for her diabetes prevention present...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - May 1, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
March Partner Spotlight
Past NDEP Chair Marti Funnell Highlights the Emotional Aspects of Diabetes.
As a trained diabetes educator and nurse, Marti Funnell understood the importance of patient-centered care long before it became a catch phrase in the era of health care reform.
Funnell, a national leader in diabetes education, was the first non-physician to serve as National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Chair from 2008 until 2011, and she has worked as an associate research scientist at the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Learning Health Sciences since 2012. Her range of experience in bo...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - February 27, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
February Partner Spotlight
NDEP Materials Featured in the ADRC of Waukesha County Diabetes Management Workshops.
Outreach and Promotions
In Waukesha County, Wisc., the NDEP has proven to be a useful source of content for the Healthy Living with Diabetes workshops that the Aging and Disability Center (ADRC) of Waukesha County offers area residents.
The six-week workshops, written and designed by Stanford University and implemented by the Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging, are funded through the Older Americans Act, and p...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - January 29, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
NDEP Thanks Partners for a Successful 2014!
The NDEP thanks its partners for their hard work in using NDEP resources and educating Americans about diabetes management and prevention.
For nearly two decades, the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has worked to raise awareness about diabetes and reduce the burden of this chronic disease in the United States. The program’s success is due in large part to NDEP’s work with more than 200 partners, which include state and local health departments, professional health care societies, community-based organizations, business leaders and key federal agencies.
2014 was a signi...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - January 23, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
January Partner Spotlight
Leading diabetes educator Linda Siminerio becomes new NDEP chair
As a nurse, diabetes educator, and professor, Linda Siminerio has spent more than 40 years advancing diabetes education in the United States. Now she’s excited to continue those efforts on a national scale in her latest role: the leader of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP).
Siminerio, R.N., Ph.D, takes the helm of the NDEP this January when she succeeds John Buse, M.D., Ph.D. and begins her two-year term as NDEP Chair. A professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in the Div...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - January 6, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
November is National Diabetes Month!
To support National Diabetes Month this November, the NDEP and its partners want people to Be Smart About Your Heart: Control the ABCs of Diabetes
More than 29 million Americans have diabetes, and it is estimated that one in every four people with diabetes does not even know they have the disease. If left undiagnosed or untreated, diabetes can lead to serious health problems, including heart attack and stroke.
The good news is that people with diabetes can lower their chances of having diabetes-related heart problems by managing their Diabetes ABCs.
A is for the A1C...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - October 30, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
November Partner Spotlight
Outgoing Executive Committee Chair Reflects on NDEP’s Past Achievements, Future Possibilities
As he concludes his term as the National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) Executive Committee Chair, Dr. John Buse says the federal program’s most important recent achievement is one that holds the greatest promise for its future: the NDEP Strategic Plan.
The five-year plan kicked off this year and is the result of work that NDEP’s Strategic Planning Task Group began in September 2012. NDEP’s Executive Committee, which Dr. Buse...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - October 30, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
September Partner Spotlight
NDEP Materials a Valuable Tool in Alabama’s Schools, Senior Centers & Prisons
Ask anyone in the Alabama public health department’s Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) and they’ll tell you the NDEP’s Road to Health toolkit has lived up to its name, serving as a map to help educate Alabamans about diabetes in schools, senior centers, and prisons throughout the state.
Intended especially for African Americans and Hi...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - October 27, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
August Partner Spotlight
NDEP Resources Help Dentist Dr. Martin Gillis Urge People to Make the Oral Health-Diabetes Connection
As a dentist with type 1 diabetes, Dr. Martin Gillis not only brings first-hand experience of the disease to his role as a healthcare provider, he also understands that the best care for people with diabetes should come from a team of healthcare professionals who provide dental, podiatric, optometric and pharmacy (PPOD) services.
The National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) resources have helped Dr. Gillis educa...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - July 31, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
July Partner Spotlight
NDEP Resources Help Primary Care Physician Dr. Kevin Peterson Deliver Patient-Centered Care
For primary care physician Dr. Kevin Peterson, the National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) resources serve the dual purpose of helping him educate his patients and meeting health reform’s goal of patient-centered care.
And Peterson—who has worked with diabetes patients since 1991—says that’s an important message for other primary care providers, not just because these clinicians treat so many diabetes patients, b...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - July 3, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Diabetes Resources for Older Adults
Diabetes occurs in people of all ages, but it is more common in older adults. Close to 11 million people age 65 and older in the United States have diabetes. Research shows that older adults with diabetes are at risk for developing other health problems or already have complications such as nerve damage, vision problems and/or cardiovascular disease. The good news is older adults with diabetes can take steps to prevent or delay related health problems, and older adults at risk for type 2 diabetes can take steps to prevent or delay the disease.
The National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) Diabetes Resources for...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - May 23, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
May Partner Spotlight
Diabetes Educator Linda Haas Incorporates NDEP Resources in Outreach Efforts
Linda Haas, Ph.C., R.N., C.D.E. is a former Washington State and National ADA Diabetes Educator of the Year who has written and lectured extensively about diabetes care. Ms. Haas served as an endocrinology clinical nurse specialist at the Seattle division of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (formerly the Seattle VA when she started), where she helped veterans with diabetes manage their condition and served as a consultant to staff on diabe...
Source: National Diabetes Education Program - May 2, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
