Diabetics have a lot to learn about diet and exercise, as well as monitoring blood sugar levels and taking prescription medications. “Living every day with an illness that affects every aspect of your life” requires up-to-date information and practicing new skills, he said. Certified Diabetes Educator Susan B. Riley, DNP. Her $3,000 grant from the AADE-Bayer 2011 Innovation in Practice Award will help Riley launch night classes for adults with diabetes at various schools in Bullock County. ” As medical professionals, we can prescribe all kinds of wonderful products, but at the end of the day it comes down to a lot of self-management, helping patients make good food choices, incorporate exercise, make good choices, how to use this medication, insulin, etc. “Learning how to take insulin if you’re using ,” Riley said. The Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) awarded Riley this award, the only type of grant awarded this year, for her proposal to use “smart board” technology to reach people in non-medical settings. Selected for grant. Reilly has worked at Family Health Care Center in Statesboro for the past 19 years, where she and her husband, Dr. Thad Reilly, collaborate with another physician, Dr. Angela Davis, and nurse practitioner Connie Barnett. We are conducting medical treatment. In May, Riley became one of them. She was one of the first 11 nurses to earn the new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree at Georgia Southern University, and is now also a “Ph.D.” Although Riley is not a doctor, “After becoming a certified diabetes educator two years ago, I focused my research toward my DNP on diabetes care.” With a population of more than 70,000 people, Bullock County has limited access to diabetes education. “The closest place anyone can go or where a doctor can refer someone for accredited diabetes education is in Savannah. Memorial Hospital. It’s a long road to actually learning about the process of your disease and how to treat it.”Going to school Riley, who worked on the Bullock County Board of Education for eight years until last December, went to local schools. I was aware of the interactive whiteboards that were installed. Commonly known by her brand name Smart Board, this whiteboard is a digital update to the markerboard.