Greetings fellow NC Diabetes Care and Education Specialists!
I am honored, humbled and excited to serve as your State Coordinating Body chair for 2020-2021. This is a monumental year for ADCES, and all of us as Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. In January, I attended the ADCES Annual Leadership Symposium, where we heard from the brand consultants that advised on the re-positioning and re-branding of our specialty. An immense amount of research, creativity and collaboration across multiple stakeholders informed this change and I have more confidence than ever in our professional association and the vision for the specialty.
Now, our grassroots work begins, and we need your help spreading the news. A change like this needs collective action at the local level to translate the vision into action. We all have an invaluable opportunity to represent the new positioning and re-brand of our specialty in a positive, inspiring, and confident way. Let’s show people with or at risk for diabetes, the healthcare community, and each other that Diabetes Care and Educational Specialists are truly on the forefront of better care.
What are you doing in your workplace, local networking group or community to spread the word about our specialty?
Your Coordinating Body is here as a resource for you, to represent your concerns, needs and issues related to diabetes education to ADCES. I look forward to hearing about your efforts in the state this year and we are here to support you in turning our vision into reality.
Christina Dauer, MPH, RDN, LDN, CDCES