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Volume 6, Number 11 November, 2010

Affiliate News Save the Date Congrats to Our Length of Service Award Recipients Upcoming Conference Calls (Noon EDT) We celebrate our affiliate colleagues who have committed To join the call: 800-351-4871 Password 90978204# for 5, 10 and 15 years to the Joslin mission. They will each Date Topic Facilitator receive a Joslin pin recognizing their service. If you work Postponed until Follow Up from Annual Janice Murphy with them, please give them a pat on the back. Wed, Jan 12, Meeting – Center Carole’ Mensing Noon-1 PM Administrators and Elaine Sullivan 5 Year EST Education Coordinators Emily Englander Alle-Kiski Medical Center, New Kensington, PA Susan Hobbins, RN, CDE Upcoming Meetings Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD Orientation in Boston 2011 Tanya Johnson, RD, CDE, LDN, Karl Finley, MD  March 13-14, New Physician & Nurse Practitioner Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, Nashua, NH Orientation Robert Silver, MD, Ellie Chuang, MD, George Rooney, MBA,  March 13-15, New Educator & Center MS, MT, (ASCP), Cheryl Barry, RN, CDE, Kathryn Winslow, Administrator Orientation RN, CDE, Julie Lavoie, RD, CDE, Sharon Laferriere, RN,CDE You will receive registration information early next year. St Mary’s, Evansville, IN Lynne Melchior, RN, BSN, CDE Continuing Education The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain, CT Educators, New Opportunity for CE Credit Deborah Venditto, RN, CDE, Sebastian Vassallo, A.S. The Art and Science of Diabetes Self-Management Education Desk Reference, 2nd Edition* offers a new 10 Year component: continuing education credits! Our own Carole’ Alle-Kiski Medical Center, New Kensington, PA Mensing, RN, MA, CDE is Editor in Chief. Desk Reference Lisa Wasilowski, RD,CDE users can purchase chapter post-tests on the AADE website Forbes Regional Medical Center, Monroeville, PA and earn 1.5 hours of CE per chapter. Each of the 27 Dana Opp, RD, CDE chapters in the Desk Reference will have an accompanying St Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington, WV post-test – a total of 40.5 hours of CE. Patricia Swain, RN, CDE The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain, CT Pre-order the new edition of the Desk Reference by Latha Dulipsingh, MD, Susan Zailskas, MSN,RN,CDE Decembers 31, 2010 and receive 3.0 free hours of CE. To Upstate Medical University, Syracuse,NY receive free access to the post-tests for Chapter 1: Diabetes Diane Blaylock, LPN, Kristi Shaver, RN, BS, CDE Education Today and Chapter 2: The Diabetes Self- Management Education Process: 15 year 1. Order the Desk Reference by December 31, 2010 Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 2. Send an email to: [email protected] with the Jody Kearns, MA,RD,CDE, Diana Stuber, MA,RD,CDE subject line: Free Chapters for CE. In the body of the email, include your name, address, phone number, email, and AADE member number, if Marketing Idea from Mercy Medical Center applicable. You will be notified by email when post- Recently Dr. Movva, Medical Director at the Affiliate in Cedar tests are available. Rapids, IA led a mall walk that 40 people attended. Each person had the chance to ask the doctor a question as they Free CME/CE Credits walked around the mall for exercise. The educators also Depression and Diabetes in Women CME/CE credits answered questions about Joslin, nutrition, and other topics. available through Medpage Today: Send your marketing successes to http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depressio [email protected] for publication in future n/23564 newsletters. Mentoring Opportunities One way to recruit staff is to offer mentoring to future Affiliate Author diabetes educators. NCBDE, the certifying agency for CDEs Diana Emmick, RN, BSN, of St. Mary’s, Evansville, IN has has developed a formal mentoring program. Participate as an excellent article in the December issue of the Walgreen mentors or recommend people who want to be CDEs to the publication, Diabetes and You, on Healthy Tips for Holiday program. For more information, go to: Eating. Ask for the magazine at your local Walgreens and http://www.ncbde.org/news_mentoring.cfm share the tips with your patients. Joslin Boston also receives requests for mentoring If you would like to write for Joslin, please contact Amy opportunities and would like to involve Affiliates. For more Campbell at [email protected]. information contact Melinda Maryniuk at [email protected] .

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