The State of the Science on Nursing Best Practices for Diabetes Self-Management
Jane Jeffrie Seley is a diabetes nurse practitioner at New York Presbyterian—Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York City. She is a contributing editor and the column coordinator for Diabetes Under Control in the American Journal of Nursing. Katie Weinger is an investigator in behavioral and mental health research, director of the Center of Innovation in Diabetes Education and of the Office of Research Fellow Affairs at Joslin Diabetes Center, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, all in Boston. She has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK60115) to study breaking down barriers to diabetes self-care. Contact author: Jane Jeffrie Seley, [email protected]. Seley serves on the advisory boards of Abbott Diabetes Care, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics, Bayer Diabetes Care, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, several of which provided funding for the project discussed in this article. The authors have no other significant ties, financial or otherwise, to any company that might have an interest in the publication of this educational activity.
Science AMA Series: I’m Kevin Coffey, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. I have 27 years of experience helping adults, teens and children dealing with anxiety and depression. AMA!
