Janis Roszler, RD, CDE, LDN, Manager of Diabetes Directions LLC was AADE’s 2009 Diabetes Educator of the Year. Janis has spent many hours this past year traveling the country encouraging diabetes educators to get out of our clinics and programs to get the word out about the importance of taking care of yourself with diabetes and the need for diabetes education. Her presentation at AADE this year was titled Taking Our Message to the Masses. In the video Janis shares a few how-tos. Learn more about Janis and her words of wisdom in (link to e-zine interview).

Charlotte Hayes, MMSc, MS, RD, LD, CDE, ACSM Ex. Spec, who is both an RD, an exercise physiologist and newly elected AADE board member, presented a lecture at AADE titled Fitness and Performance Training: Diabetes and the Endurance Athlete. Charlotte notes that while most of us spend most of our time trying to get people with type 2 diabetes off the couch, there’s a growing group of people with both types of diabetes who are becoming endurance athletes – from race car drivers, to marathon runners or triathletes and Olympic swimmers. Charlotte provides some key messages about what diabetes educators need to consider when counseling elite athletes.

Lauren Bronich-Hall, RD, LDN, CDE and Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDE, an AADE past President, are both fully engaged (and employed) by WellDoc Communications in Baltimore Maryland. Continuing with the technology theme which was heavily represented in content presented at the 2009 AADE meeting, Lauren and Malinda presented a talk titled The Convergence of Mobile Technology with Current Healthcare Trends in which they shared insights they’ve gain in trying to integrate cell phones into diabetes care and education. Malinda and Lauren shared a few key insights with PRESENTdiabetes.com.

Novo Nordisk, the world's largest maker of insulin. Anne Cannon, Senior Medical Science Liaison, Diabetes of Novo Nordisk tells us about Novo Nordisk's National Changing Diabetes Program that every diabetes educator can and should know about. And she tells us why Novo Nordisk, has the reputation of being socially responsible and what they are doing to earn that reputation.

Laura is the person in diabetes when it comes to learning about vitamins, supplements, and herbs, in the diabetes arena. She is the author of : Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) Supplement Use in People with Diabetes: A Clinician's Guide, and soon to be released, The American Diabetes Association Guide to Herbs and Nutritional Supplements: What You Need to Know from Aloe to Zinc. Listen while she tells us how to deal with our patients who don't want to take medications but will take supplements, as well as what she thinks people with diabetes should be taking.