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Ms. Flood is a nurse practitioner who is Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Care (BC-ADM) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (C.D.E.). Ms. Flood was the Coordinator of Clinical Services and Nurse Practitioner at the Endocrine Diabetes Care and Resource (EDCRC). As the center’s Coordinator of Diabetes Education, Ms. Flood was responsible for administrating and maintaining the American Diabetes Association Center of Excellence Recognition for Diabetes Self-Management Education. Ms. Flood created teams consisting of professional dietitians and nurse educators (predominately CDEs) and together they developed five comprehensive diabetes self-management education programs and increased patient participation by over 400%. She was responsible for developing special pilot projects, negotiating insurance contracts, co-authoring grant proposals, and fund raising. She has experience in developing a web-based system for diabetes education, care delivery and for data management and outcome reporting. She was instrumental in translating user requirements and workflows into algorithms and specifications that were easy for team members to follow and build into modular systems. Previously, as Manager of the Case Management and Quality Management Departments of a large managed-care company, she developed her expertise in managed-care practices.
Ms. Flood was among the first nursing professionals to achieve Certified Diabetes Educator status in the United States, and was instrumental in organizing and directing the initial study groups for professional nurses and registered dietitians pursuing certification in Upstate New York. She was also among the first nurse practitioners to become board-certified in advanced diabetes management.
Ms. Flood is a long-time member of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and was the first president of the local AADE chapter, the Rochester Area Diabetes Educators.
Ms. Flood played a key role in developing both an inter-disciplinary inpatient diabetes team and an ambulatory care diabetes management/education program. She was responsible for providing clinical management and diabetes self-care education in both settings.
Ms. Flood has extensive experience lecturing to health care professionals and to the public on a broad range of topics related to diabetes self-care management and education.
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