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 SPG

The Advanced Practice SPG is a multidisciplinary group of advanced practice diabetes educators. This group provides working and networking with other professionals concerned with advanced practice issues.

African American SPG

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

Asian and Pacific Islander SPG

The Asian and Pacific Islander SPG provides leadership to its members in culturally and linguistically appropriate diabetes care and prevention education. This SPG's goal is to improve 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 provides working and networking with other professionals who are interested in diabetes camps across the United States. This SPG supports members through the sharing and exchange of ideas concerning developments in fields relevant to diabetes camp educators.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring SPG

The Continuous Glucose Monitoring SPG provides leadership to members in continuous glucose monitoring education. SPG members have the opportunity to exchange and receive information hat benefits patients and their families with diabetes. This SPG also provides networking with other professionals who are interested in continuous glucose monitoring.

Disabilities SPG

The Disabilities SPG works to ensure that people with disabilities have full access to all components of diabetes self-management education, 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 Foot Care SPG provides members the opportunity to exchange and receive ideas and information that benefit patients with diabetes and associated foot involvement. This SPG allows members to obtain current foot care interventions through association with clinicians and physicians with a multidisciplinary approach, diabetes educators and industry representatives.

Hispanic/Latino American SPG

The Hispanic/Latino American SPG'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 on culturally and linguistically appropriate information on diabetes care and contributions from members of the Hispanic/Latino SPG
- 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 Care Diabetes Educator SPG is dedicated to promoting diabetes education as a specialty program offered by Home Health agencies. This group is committed to improving the diabetes teaching skills of field staff and helping SPG members attain CDE certification. 

Inpatient Management SPG

The Inpatient Management SPG provides education and networking to members interested in the care of hospitalized patients who have diabetes.  This group addresses 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 Therapy SPG is comprised of health professionals interested in insulin pump therapy. This SPG maintains an active listserv that provides a forum for questions and issues that diabetes educators face in the workplace and in individual  practice.

Integrative Care SPG

The Integrative Care SPG is a community of diabetes educators that wishes to learn about, practice, promote and research methods of promoting health using the principles of complementary medicine. SPG members have the opportunity to gain additional understanding, tools and increase the resources they provide to 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 populations and to those who provide care to Native American populations.

Office & Clinic Based Diabetes Educators SPG

The Office and Clinic Based SPG provides 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 SPG work in an internal medicine or endocrine physician's office.

Pediatric Educator SPG

The Pediatric Educator SPG provides a forum for sharing expertise and increasing knowledge by networking with colleagues. This SPG encourages members to write articles for its quarterly newsletter and T he Diabetes Educator Journal; create and share teaching/documentation tools; submit abstracts and poster presentation for the Annual Meeting; participate in reviews of AADE pediatric educational materials and alert other SPG members to useful publications and internet resources.  

Pharmacy SPG

The Pharmacy SPG consists of pharmacists and diabetes educators who practice in a pharmacy-type environment including community, hospital, long-term care, consultant, industry, faculty and 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

The Physical Activity SPG's mission 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. This SPG is comprised of multidisciplinary diabetes educators practicing in a variety of settings.

Pregnancy/Reproductive SPG

The Pregnancy/Reproductive Health SPG consists of multidisciplinary professionals 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 childbearing capacity
- Preventing the onset of diabetes in children of pregnancies complicated by diabetes

Public Health SPG

The Public Health SPG acts as a forum for clinical and public health professionals who specialize in population-based approaches to diabetes education, work 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

The Veterans Affairs/Dept. of Defense SPG provides networking opportunities and collaboration of members within the two Federal Government Agencies with similar practice interests. 
Benefits of membership include:
- 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 VA and the DoD