 Anne Brown, RN, MSN, CDE
Anne Brown, RN, MSN, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner who is Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management as well as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She has 25+ years in clinical practice managing patients with diabetes. Research interests include relapse prevention, exercise, continuous glucose sensing, and therapies to prevent or delay type 1 diabetes. She holds two degrees from Vanderbilt, serves as an instructor in the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt and an Adjunct at Belmont University. In the past, she created and led one of the first outpatient American Diabetes Association Recognized Patient Education Programs in the country and has been a Certified Diabetes Educator. |
Elaine Boswell King, MSN, FNP-BC, CDE
 Elaine Boswell King is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Diabetes Educator in the Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Clinic and Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center. She has a faculty appointment in the Vanderbilt School of Nursing with degrees from Harding University and Vanderbilt University. She is specialized in managing patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Her experience includes training health care providers in professional and patient education, coordinating clinical research studies and authoring publications related to this work.
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Diane Davis, RD, LDN, CDE Diane Davis is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE). She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) dietetic internship. Her experience ranges from catering, health promotion, weight management and the Diabetes Control and Complications trial (DCCT). She helped develop and is part of the faculty of the three day "Sugar is Not a Poison" workshop designed to prepare dietitians to assume their expanded role in diabetes management based on the experiences of the DCCT. She is currently working at Vanderbilt in four specialties: as a diabetes educator in an adult diabetes clinic, for the Diabetes Research and Training Center, for Vanderbilt Dining, and for the Vanderbilt Athletic Department. |
Jennifer Garland MPH, RD, CDE
Jennifer Garland is a registered dietitian and a certified diabetes educator. She received her Bachelor’s from Utah State University and Master’s from the University of Utah. Her experience ranges from counseling patients for diabetes, weight management, bariatric surgery, and sport’s nutrition. She enjoys working with clients and watching them become successful at making nutrition and lifestyle changes. |
 Amy Kranick, RD, LDN, CDE
Amy Kranick is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE). She received her Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her experience ranges from counseling clients with End Stage Renal Disease, organ transplantation, diabetes and weight management. She is a preceptor for the Vanderbilt Dietetic Internship. She enjoys watching her clients achieve their goals through healthy lifestyle changes.
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 Janie Lipps, APRN, BC, CDE Janie Lipps is a Board Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner in the Vanderbilt Eskind Center for Diabetes Care, and Nurse Coordinator of DCCT, Epidemiology of Diabetes Intervention and Complications (EDIC), and other clinical research trials. She is a certified diabetes educator. Her research interests include finding ways to improve care for persons with diabetes, testing new diabetes drugs and monitoring techniques. She is also an adjunct instructor in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and a frequent speaker on diabetes and results of diabetes research. She is the current president of the Middle Tennessee American Diabetes Association Community Leadership Board. |
Becky Pratt Gregory, MS, RD, LDN, CDE
 Becky Pratt Gregory works in several areas of diabetes at Vanderbilt. Her patient related responsibilities are in the Eskind Diabetes High Risk Pregnancy & Diabetes Clinic seeing pregnant women with diabetes. Her research is done at the Diabetes Research & Training Center at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is involved in diabetes related education teaching health care professionals across the country about nutrition and diabetes management.
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 Kathleen Wolff, MSN, FNP-BC, ADM-BC Kathleen Wolff has been working as a nurse practitioner and diabetes nurse specialist since 1982. Her background is in the arts and music as well as the sciences with degrees in both Humanities and Nursing. She is faculty with the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. She is involved in diabetes clinical research, giving lectures in the community and teaching, as well as seeing patients in the Eskind Diabetes Clinic. Her primary interest is in helping people with diabetes improve their overall health and well-being and find ways to integrate diabetes self care into their daily personal life. |
Connie Root, RN, MSN, ACNS-BC, ADM-BC, CDE
Connie Root has been working as a diabetes clinical nurse specialist since 1987. She has degrees both in Education and Nursing. Her experience includes caring for patients with diabetes in Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Clinic and Vanderbilt Endocrinology Research Department. She is conducting research in the area of insulin pumps and continuous glucose sensors and is adjunct clinical instructor at the Vanderbilt School of Nursing. Her special interests are diabetes and organ transplants, insulin pumps and continuous glucose sensors.
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