Announcing the finalists for the 2020 Jan Baldwin CDE of the Year Award

We are excited to announce the 2020 Finalists for this year’s prestigious Jan Baldwin CDE of the Year Award.

The Award program profiles and acknowledges leading CDEs and their extraordinary contributions in the community of people with diabetes and diabetes education.

It is a chance for us to honour and celebrate the difference CDEs make in people’s lives each day. Nominees are selected based on:

• demonstrated excellence in diabetes education, and
• leadership and inspiration as a role model for other diabetes educators.

The award evolved from the Jan Baldwin award. Ms Baldwin was an innovative and dedicated diabetes educator who strongly influenced the practice of diabetes education in Australia until her passing in 1999.

The CDE of the Year award program is run by the Australian Diabetes Educators Association and financially supported by Eli Lilly since 2015.

We congratulate all the State and territory CDEs of 2020 and look forward to celebrating with our members and to hearing the announcement of our National CDE of 2020.

The Winner will be announced at our World Diabetes Day celebration, online, Sat 14 November 1 – 2pm (AEST).

2020 State and Territory CDEs of the Year

Kirstin Turner: Australian Capital Territory

Michelle Kriss: New South Wales

Kay Dean: Queensland

Shaun Johnson: South Australia

Fran Brown: Victoria

Teresa DiFranco: West Australia

We look forward to featuring each nominee, and their work as CDEs, online and on social media in the lead up to World Diabetes Day!