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Professor Trisha Dunning AM, RN, CDE, MEd,  PhD Chair in Nursing, Centre for Quality Patient Safety Research, Barwon health/Deakin University Partnership. Professor Dunning is an internationally recognised diabetes nurse educator. She has authored over 300 peer-reviewed and other publications, 15 books, 36 book chapters and 3 led the development of clinical practice guidelines. She is…

I started working with people with Diabetes in the 1980’s in the Diabetes Centre,  Mater  Misericordiae Hospital Dublin. I realized in the early days  that we as nurses working with people with Diabetes needed to improve our  knowledge and skills in order to provide a better service and support  for people with Diabetes and their…

Anne started working with people with diabetes in 1983 and established a Diabetes Education Centre in Brampton, Ontario in 1991. From there she became involved with the Canadian Diabetes Association, becoming Chair of the Educator Section. She was one of the first members of the Canadian Diabetes Educator Certification development team, working with that group…

Kristin started her nursing career driving around the province of Antwerp to draw blood samples from patients at home or in the consultation room of their general practitioners. Six month later she joined the new University Hospital Antwerp on the ward Endocrinology & Diabetology. 20 years later, she moved to the Diabetes outpatient clinic where…

Graduate nursing school in Riga  (1983) and started work in 7th Riga City Clinical Hospital. Chief Nurse in ward of endocrinology since 1991 until now. On 2005 got a bachelor’s degree in health sciences and on 2011 master’s degree in pedagogy. On 2010 graduate FEND European Nurses Diabetes Collaborative University Programme. Since 2008 head of…