Specialty Practice Groups

The purpose of AADE Specialty Practice Groups (SPGs) is to facilitate the professional development and collaboration of AADE members with common interest in specialized areas and functions of diabetes self-management training and to promote the mission and vision of AADE.

Advanced Practice Nursing SPG

Advanced Practice Nurses who specialize in diabetes care include Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners. Currently important issues include third party payment, our CE needs, acute care, scope of practice, prescribing privileges, and others.

African American SPG

The African American SPG, a multidisciplinary/diverse group of diabetes educators, is committed to making a difference in the community/nation with emphasis on the African American population. We address issues and concerns of both the patient and the diabetes educator. We believe in excellence, accountability, interdependence, and dedication in serving.

Asian and Pacific Islander SPG

The purpose of the Asian and Pacific Islander Specialty Practice Group is to provide leadership to AADE and its members in culturally and linguistically appropriate diabetes care and prevention education that improves the quality of life for Asian American and Pacific Islanders who have been diagnosed with and who are at risk for diabetes.

Camp Educators SPG

The Camp Educators SPG is a benefit to all who join. This group provides working and networking with other professionals who are interested in diabetes camps across the United States. The group has plenty of opportunity for growth; it is in need of people to bring this group its potential.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring SPG

To provide leadership to AADE members in continuous glucose monitoring education. Members will have the opportunity to exchange and receive information that benefits patients and their families with diabetes. The group will provide networking with other professionals who are interested in continuous glucose monitoring.

Disabilities/Visual Impairment SPG

The Disabilities/Visual impairment SPG will work to ensure that people with disabilities will have full access to all components of diabetes self-management education, with reasonable accommodations as necessary and full access to DSME that is equivalent to that provided to people with no current disability.

Foot Care SPG

The purpose of the Foot Care SPG is to provide AADE members interested in diabetic foot care the opportunity to exchange and receive ideas and information that benefit patients with diabetes and associated foot involvement. Membership benefits include association with clinicians and physicians with a multidisciplinary approach, industry representatives, and educators to obtain current foot care interventions.

Hispanic/Latino American SPG

The AADE Hispanic/Latino Specialty Practice Group's mission is to educate other professionals and diabetes advocates and to bridge the gap between professionals and cultural backgrounds in order to better serve our patients.

Benefits of membership:

Three issues per year of La Voz newsletter - timely information about on culturally and linguistically appropriate information on diabetes care and education and contributions from members of the Hispanic Latino group

  • Ability to network and be mentored by expert professionals in Latin American culture
  • Access to job postings and opportunities through periodic electronic mailings
  • Home Health Care SPG

The Home Health SPG is dedicated to promoting diabetes education as a specialty program offered by Home Health agencies. We are committed to improving the diabetes teaching skills for field staff in our agencies, assisting agencies to achieve ADA recognition and helping our members to attain CDE accreditation.

Inpatient Management SPG

The Inpatient Management SPG provides education, and networking to members interested in the care of hospitalized patients who have diabetes.

The Inpatient Management SPG will address challenges of providing patient diabetes self-management education as well as the challenges of responsibilities focused on inpatient glycemic management.

Insulin Pump Therapy SPG

The Insulin Pump Specialty Group is comprised of health professionals interested in insulin pump therapy and all that it entails. Member benefits include a very active listserv that provides a forum for questions and concerns that diabetes educators face in the workplace and in their individual practice.

Integrative Care SPG

The Integrative Care SPG is a community of diabetes educators who wish to learn about, practice, promote and research methods of promoting health using the principles of complementary medicine. Active and involved members will gain additional understanding and tools and increase the resources they are able to provide patients.

Native American /Indian Health Service SPG

The Native American Indian Health Service SPG is a group of multidisciplinary diabetes educators practicing in a variety of settings while serving diverse populations. The mission of the Native American/Indian Health Service SPG is to increase cultural awareness and to provide guidance for diabetes care and education to the Native American population and to those who provide care.

Office & Clinic Based Diabetes Educators SPG

The mission of the Office and Clinic Based Diabetes Educator is to provide members with a forum to share successes and challenges specific to the educator working in a physician’s office or clinic. Many members of the Office and Clinic Based special practice group work in an internal medicine or endocrine physician’s office.

Pediatric Educator SPG

The Pediatric Educators Specialty Practice Group is a forum for sharing your expertise and increasing your knowledge by networking with colleagues. The Peds Ed SPG encourages members to write articles for its quarterly newsletter and/or TDE, create and share teaching/documentation tools, submit abstracts and poster presentation for the Annual Meeting, participate in review of AADE pediatric educational materials, and alert other SPG members to useful publications and Web resources. The Peds Ed SPG also offers financial assistance in attending the annual meeting based on individual needs and availability of funds. You will receive 3-4 Pediatric Educator Newsletters each year focused on the specific educational and management needs of children with diabetes.

Pharmacy SPG

The Pharmacy SPG consists of pharmacists and diabetes educators that practice in a pharmacy type environment, such as community, hospital, long-term care, consultant, industry and faculty or specialty practice clinics. The Pharmacy SPG provides a forum and network support system for members to share and exchange ideas pertaining to the ongoing development and changes within their practices.

Physical Activity SPG

This SPG is a group of multidisciplinary diabetes educators practicing in a variety of settings. Our mission is to increase awareness and to provide guidance for physical activity's function in the prevention of diabetes and as a treatment of choice within the Diabetes Self-Management Training process.

Pregnancy/Reproductive SPG

The Pregnancy/Reproductive Specialty Practice Group is a multi-disciplinary professional membership organization dedicated to advancing the practice of:

  • Aggressive and timely diabetes self-management training for the reproductive family
  • Preventing the onset of diabetes in women of diabetes of childbearing capacity
  • Preventing the onset of diabetes in children of pregnancies complicated by diabetes.

Public Health SPG

Members of the Public Health Specialty practice group recognize that diabetes is a growing public health issue. In an effort to reduce the burden of diabetes within the community the PH SPG moves forward to increase awareness of the emerging epidemic in adults and children, acts as a forum for clinical and public health professionals specializing in population based approached to diabetes education, and works toward eliminating diabetes-related health disparities and improve the quality of life for people with and at risk for diabetes.

Veterans Affairs & Dept of Defense SPG

Purpose: Support VA and Dod Diabetes Clinical Practice Guidelines; Provide networking opportunities and collaboration of members within the two Federal Government Agencies with similar practice interests; Decrease costs; Share current research, practice information and resources; Facilitate professional growth

  • Benefits of Membership:
  • Networking
  • Resource sharing
  • Potential for collaborative research
  • Newsletter
  • E-mail group
  • Annual meeting
  • VA and DoD Web page
  • Ensure consistency of diabetes related information for clients with Diabetes to facilitate client transfers between the VHA and the DoD.