EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Second Vice-President
Katie Weinger, EdD, RN
Katie Weinger assumed the role of second vice president of the American Association of Diabetes
Educators (AADE) on January 1, 2008, for a one-year term. As second vice president, he serves on
the Executive Committee, providing leadership to AADE, a multidisciplinary professional membership
organization of healthcare professionals dedicated to integrating successful self-management as a
key outcome in the care of people with diabetes and related conditions.
Weinger works at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where she fills several roles. She is
an investigator in behavioral and mental health research. She also directs the Center of Innovation
in Diabetes Education and the Office of Research Fellow Affairs.
In addition, she is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is an
associate at the Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership.
Weinger has been an AADE member since 1999. She served on AADE’s Board of Directors from
2004-2007, and has been a long-time member of the Research Committee. She has also been active at
the local level as a member of the Diabetes Educators of Eastern Massachusetts, an AADE chapter.
Other national affiliations include memberships in the American Diabetes Association, Sigma
Theta Tau (National Honor Society for Nurses), The Society of Behavior Medicine, Eastern Nursing
Research Society and the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science.
Weinger is an accomplished researcher, has been published in numerous healthcare journals and
magazines, and has been invited to deliver presentations at the local, regional and national
meetings.
She has also received numerous honors over the years, including the Harvard Medical School
50th Anniversary Scholars in Medicine—Joslin Diabetes Center Fellowship in Memory of Dr. Priscilla
White, and the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women's Health Research Grant award.
Weinger earned her Doctor of Education degree in Human Development and Psychology from
Harvard University Graduate School of Education, her Masters in Science degree from Texas Woman’s
University in Houston, and her Bachelor in Science degree in Nursing from Boston College. In
addition, she completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at Harvard Medical School—Joslin Diabetes
Center and another at the Harvard Nursing Research Institute at Harvard Graduate School of Public
Health.