FEND Recognition Awards

In 2020 FEND established a FEND Recognition Award for Diabetes Specialist Nurses and Diabetes Specialist Midwives who have made significant contributions to diabetes care, research and education.

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FEND Recognition Award 2020

Maite Valverde

Maite Valverde is an advanced Practice Nurse in Diabetes. Master’s…

Jytte Roed

RN, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Diploma in Nursing Odense University Hospital,…

Anne Belton

Anne started working with people with diabetes in 1983 and…

Dr Gillian Hood

Dr Gillian (Gill) Hood RGN, qualified as a nurse at…

Prof Regina Wredling

Graduated nurse 1964 at Sophiahemmet School of Nursing, Stockholm. Gradually…

Claudia Leippert

Being a curious General Nurse with additional specialization in Diabetes,…

Deirdre Kyne-Grzebalski

In 1981 Deirdre took up the first Diabetes Specialist Nurse…

Margarida Jansà

Margarida Jansà qualified as a nurse at the University of…

Kristin de Backer

Kristin started her nursing career driving around the province of…

Nfor Claudette Manli

Nfor Claudette Manli is a nurse and certified diabetes educator who…

Deirdre Cregan

I started working with people with Diabetes in the 1980’s…

Eszter Halmos

I was born in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary, 1940, 03.18. as a…

Prof. Şeyda Özcan

Assoc. Prof. Şeyda Özcan, RN, MSc, PhD Dr.Ozcan has experiences…

Liga Arente

Graduate nursing school in Riga  (1983) and started work in…

Tineke Dijkstra

Ana Cristina Paiva

Nurse at the Diabetes Consultation and Coordinator of the Department…

Professor Trisha Dunning AM

Professor Trisha Dunning AM, RN, CDE, MEd,  PhD Chair in…

Marja Rautavirta

Marja Rautavirta – a Diabetic Specialist Nurse from Finland. She…

Adina Sanpetreanu

Adina Sanpetreanu is a registered nurse at the Diabetes Centre…

Prof Angus Forbes

Professor Angus Forbes holds the FEND Chair of Clinical Diabetes Nursing…

Dr Lurdes Serrabulho

Lurdes Serrabulho is a registered nurse (1980), specialized in Public…

Prof Margaret McGill

Associate Professor MARGARET MCGILL AM RN MSc (Med) CDE Current…

Prof Linda Siminerio

Linda Siminerio is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Nursing,…

Alicja Szewczyk

Specialist in the field of diabetic nursing  and in the…

Martha Mitchell Funnell

Martha Mitchell Funnell, MS, RN, CDE, FAAN Emeritus Research Scientist,…

Deborah Jones OBE

I am so honored and humbled, as a FEND ENDCUP…