Opportunities to Receive Association Awards
Discover our special awards, and apply for recognition in those areas.
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Association Awards
Describing Our Award Categories
The following awards honor our members for their accomplishments. With the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award, only ADCES members are eligible to apply. You may wish to nominate a member, or as a member, you can apply directly to the applicable association awards listed below. Stay tuned for the opening of applications in January 2027.
This award recognizes outstanding volunteer and leadership contributions and service to the Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists. This award is named in honor of Allene Van Son Martinez, ADCES’s first president and leader in diabetes care. Van Son Martinez was a lifetime advocate for those affected by diabetes and a champion for the association. Van Son Martinez was the first recipient of the Allene Van Son Distinguished Service Award, named in her honor to recognize one diabetes care and education specialist each year for outstanding contributions and service to the association.
This award recognizes a member whose program or project advances ADCES’s strategic priorities of promoting person-centered care and striving for population health, quality patient care, and reasonable costs associated with care.
This award honors a diabetes care and education specialist who has made a special contribution to the field through dedicated, innovative, person-centered clinical care for those with diabetes and related cardiometabolic conditions. The Diabetes Care and Education Specialist will act as an "Ambassador" for ADCES and should be someone who is considered a role model by their peers and colleagues.
Recognizes a member who has demonstrated exceptional contributions to the field through innovative, evidence-based research that advances diabetes care, self-management, education and/or diabetes related conditions.
This award recognizes a diabetes care and education specialist who has less than five years of diabetes care and education experience and has demonstrated leadership and commitment in their practice.
This award is given in memory of Donna Tomky, an ADCES past president and nurse practitioner (NP), who advocated for the integration of self-management behaviors with clinical management, to an NP who continues to advance this integration through practice, health plan or health system innovation.
This award recognizes a diabetes care and education specialist for their ongoing dedication and service to persons with diabetes and the impact of diabetes self-management and clinical care that diabetes care and education specialists provide. The recipient of this award will be honored for their day-to-day commitment to clinical care to ensure the best outcomes for people with diabetes. This award provides an opportunity for ADCES to recognize members in the field for their dedication to persons with diabetes and who work every day to improve the quality of their patients' lives.
ADCES Award Recipients
Introducing the 2026 Recipients of ADCES Awards
Anne Daly
MS, RDN, BC-ADM, CDCES
Jay Shubrook
DO, BC-ADM, FACOFP, FAAFP
Deborah Greenwood
PhD, RN, CNS, BC-ADM, CDCES, FADCES
Rachel Stahl Salzman
MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES
Mayra Cantazaro
DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, BC-ADM, CDCES, A-AACE
Solvej Murillo Guthrie
MS, CDCES, MLDE
Nancy A. Allen
PhD, ANP-BC, FADCES, FAAN
Susan Baldwin
MS, RN, CDCES
Ashley Webb
RN, LDC