Martha Funnell is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School and adjunct faculty in the School of Nursing. She is past President, Health Care and Education of the American Diabetes Association, past Chair of the National Diabetes Education Program, and has received several national awards. She has more than 30 years of experience as a Diabetes Educator with more than 150 publications and over 200 national and international presentations and has served as an investigator in multiple empowerment-based self-management research projects.