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Clinical News cont. from page 1 Advocacy Award: Being Responsible American Indians with Diabetes (BRAID) Oklahoma City, Okla. The BRAID Program educates American Indians about type 2 diabetes prevention and promotes healthier lives with positive lifestyle changes. Members of the BRAID team created a detailed brochure explaining their efforts in the diabetes community and the critical role played by SDPI funding. The brochure emphasizes the important work done on a daily basis by the dedicated staff, and features moving testimonials from patients about the difference that diabetes education has made in their lives. BRAID representatives shared this brochure with the Oklahoma congressional delegation. Outcomes Award: From left to right: ADA Federal Government Affairs Managing Director Tekisha Dwan Everette; IHS Director Yvette Roubideaux; Tonya Wapskineh and Teresa Chaudoin of the Cherokee Nation Diabetes Program; Carme Hamilton of the Being Responsible American Indians with Diabetes program (BRAID); Maegon Lopez of the Healthy O’odham Promotion Program; Cathy Waller of BRAID; ADA Native American Initiatives Subcommittee Chair Shondra McCage; and ADA Associate Director of High Risk Programs and Health Disparities Denise Price-Brown. Cherokee Nation Diabetes Program Tahlequah, Okla. The Cherokee Nation Diabetes Program has provided services and diabetes supplies to over 10,000 diabetes patients seen by its outpatient clinics and hospitals. The clinical staff are fully integrated into the delivery of direct patient care at their facilities, all have additional diabetesrelated training, and many are certified diabetes educators. The Cherokee Nation Diabetes Prevention Program (CNDPP) offers 16-week diabetes prevention classes to participants with prediabetes, with classes covering nutrition, physical activity, and psychosocial concepts. The 16-week program is followed by ongoing activities, meetings, and assistance from a life coach to help participants achieve their Professional Section Quarterly weight-loss goals. Since February 2006, CNDPP has established 21 groups in six counties and has retained 187 of 247 participants. Participants completing the classes have lost a total of 2,752.5 pounds during the 16week session, with 92 participants reaching their 7 percent weight loss goal. Innovation Award: ties as well as cooking demonstrations. In mid-July, a bike ride was held to help keep the children active while school was out of session. ADA and AADE Issue Revised Diabetes Self-Management Standards he National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education, which are updated approximately every five years, have been reviewed and revised by a task force convened last fall by the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE). The Task Force included experts from the public-health community, rural health services, individual practices, and large urban hospitals and specialty practices, as well as individuals with diabetes, diabetes researchers, certified diabetes educators, registered nurses, dietitians, physicians, pharmacists, and continued on page 4 3 T Healthy O’odham Promotion Program Sells, Ariz. The Healthy O’odham Promotion Program introduced the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS) curriculum throughout four schools of the Tohono O’odham tribal reservation. The program team also implemented a teleschool pilot project in collaboration with four middle schools off the reservation. The curriculum focused on preventing diabetes and obesity. There was a health care specialist onsite to assist with hands-on activi-

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012

Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012
Contents
Updated DSME Standards
Dual HbA1c Reporting in ADA Journals
73rd Scientific Sessions Info
Postgrad Course Preconference Workshop

Professional Section Quarterly - Fall 2012