Associate Professor MARGARET MCGILL AM RN MSc (Med) CDE Current Positions Assistant Director RPAH Diabetes Service Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney. Margaret McGill has contributed extensively to diabetes both nationally and internationally for 40 years.  Her work was recognised in the Australia Day Honours List…

Nfor Claudette Manli is a nurse and certified diabetes educator who has spent most of her career life working with persons living with diabetes from 2005 till date. Through individualised and group patients’ education, she has empowered her clients to overcome the challenges of living with diabetes and are able to take charge of their health…

Being a curious General Nurse with additional specialization in Diabetes, Nephropathy, Footulcers and B.Sc. in Diabetes- and Healthmanagement, I was always interested in “what is going on” in the rest of the world. For this, I was connected to FEND. I am happy, having attended the FEND Conferences for more than 10 years, having met…

In 1981 Deirdre took up the first Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DNS) role in Newcastle upon Tyne. She joined Diabetes UK and went on to Chair the Professional Services Section and organised a number of Study Days for Nurses who were looking after people with Diabetes on wards and departments which were well attended. Deirdre was…

I am so honored and humbled, as a FEND ENDCUP graduate and past Director of FEND to have been nominated for this prestigious FEND award as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations. My journey as a diabetes nurse educator began forty-five years ago taking me from urine testing, boiling syringes and filing needles to insulin…

Margarida Jansà qualified as a nurse at the University of Barcelona (1973), Diabetes Specialist Nurse at the Barcelona Autonomous University-FEND (2000), Master in Nursing Science (2012) and PhD on Therapeutic Patient Education with the doctoral thesis special award at the University Jaume I (2014). Since 1973 she has been working at the Barcelona Clinic Hospital.…

Dr Gillian (Gill) Hood RGN, qualified as a nurse at the Royal London Hospital in 1984, and immediately took up post on a diabetes ward. Recognising the high prevalence of diabetes in East London, and having been personally affected by diabetes in her family, Gill became interested in research being undertaken to improve the lives…

I was born in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary, 1940, 03.18. as a Hungarian citizen. I have finished my secondary school studies in Békéscsaba, Hungary, 1958. From 1958-to 1960 I have completed Nursing School in Budapest. Starting from 1960-to 1979 I was active as a nurse, in the St. John’s Hospital, Internal Ward,  Budapest. Meanwhile I have finished…

Martha Mitchell Funnell, MS, RN, CDE, FAAN Emeritus Research Scientist, Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan Ms. Funnell is known as a pioneer in patient empowerment through her research, publishing and educating nurses, patients and others. She is also a leader in developing and implementing evidence-based standards for patient education in national and…

Professor Angus Forbes holds the FEND Chair of Clinical Diabetes Nursing at King’s College London and holds an honorary post as a specialist diabetes nurse at King’s College Hospital. Prof Forbes is an active researcher with multiple publications in diabetes, some current and previous projects include: a pan European survey of diabetes nurses on the impact…