University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
Nursing
420 Delaware St., SE
MMC 732
Minneapolis,
MN
USA
55455
Email:
cmanche1@fairview.org
Biographical Sketch:
For 32 years, I have worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health and DIabetes. Clinical experience has included positions as the head nurse of adult metabolic diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.; Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist/Program Manager in the Diabetes Management Clinic at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey; and the Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Minneapolis, MN., for the past 10 years. I lecture nationally on Inpatient Glycemic Management and all aspects of diabetes and professional competency. Recent publications have included a chapter, Glycemic Management, in Advanced Critical Care Nursing, 2009, Elsevier; Ensuring Professional Competency in Diabetes Spectrum, and an author of the American Association of Diabetes Educators Position Statement on Inpatient Diabetes published in The Diabetes Educator, Supplement, November, 2009. I served as the Chair of the Inpatient Diabetes Management Specialty Practice Group of AADE for 2.5 years, currently serve on the board as an ex-officio member representing the Chapter President's Council, and am a member of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Diabetes Educators Chapter. I am the representative from MSDE to the Minnesota Diabetes Steering Committee of the MN Dept. of Health. In this capacity, I chair the Diabetes in the Hospital Sub-Committee, Currently, I co-chair the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, Acute Care Diabetes Advisory Committee, leading the university to the first academic medical center in the nation to achieve Joint Commission Certification for Advanced Inpatient Diabetes.