Diabetes Prevention and Care: A 40-Year Journey from Compliance to Collaboration

Date: April 30, 2013

Time: 12:30-1:30PM

Location: Brown Lounge, Brown Hall

                Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus

Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE, is an Associate Research Scientist in the Dept. of Medical Education of the University of Michigan Medical School, Co-Director of the Behavioral, Clinical and Health Systems Research Core of the MCDRT and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Nursing.  She is a past President, Health Care and Education of the American Diabetes Association and was the first non-physician Chair of the National Diabetes Education Program.  She has won numerous national awards for her work and was Chair of the National Diabetes Education Program in 2008-2011.  She has thirty years of experience as a Diabetes Educator with more than 150 publications and has made over 200 presentations.  Her research and publication efforts have primarily been in the field of patient empowerment and diabetes self-management education. Her talk will be describing our past, present and future research efforts in patient empowerment, our reasons for pioneering this approach, and how it is still relevant in diabetes care and prevention. Lunch will be served.

Please RSVP to Kellie Thompson at kthompson@brownschool.wustl.edu if you plan to attend.