Anthem Foundation to Fund Scholarships For American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting

Anthem Foundation to Fund Scholarships For American Association of Diabetes
Educators Annual Meeting 


CHICAGO, Feb. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Diabetes
Educators' (AADE) Research and Education Foundation announces that it is the
recipient of a three-year grant from the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Foundation.

The grant will fund $1,500 scholarships to allow diabetes educators who could
not otherwise afford to do so, to attend the AADE Annual Meeting in
Indianapolis, Indiana, in August 2004, as well as the 2005 and 2006 annual
meetings.

The scholarships will be awarded to a certified diabetes educator in each of the
states in which Anthem does business -- Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado and Nevada.

In order to qualify for the educational scholarship, the diabetes educator must
meet ALL of the following criteria and apply through the AADE Foundation
scholarship process: 

  (1) currently is a certified diabetes educator,
 (2) works with the adult population,
  (3) resides in one of the nine states where Anthem does business,


(4) and demonstrates a strong interest in promoting e-health through the use of
internet resources or web-based diabetes management tools in their practice.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for these educational scholarships.
 The AADE application process deadline is March 1, 2004. Information on the
application process and forms can be downloaded from the AADE website:
http://www.diabeteseducator.org/AADEFoundation/Scholarship/ScholarshipApp.html

Founded in 1973, AADE is a multi-disciplinary organization of more than 10,000
members dedicated to advancing the role of diabetes self-management training and
care as an integral component of health care for persons with diabetes.

Anthem's mission is to improve the health of the people it serves. Anthem, Inc.
is an Indiana-domiciled publicly traded company that, through its subsidiary
companies, provides health care benefits to morethan 11.9 million people. 
Anthem is the fourth largest publicly traded health benefits company in the
United States and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association.  Anthem is the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Indiana,
Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Colorado, Nevada, Maine and
Virginia, excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. More
information about Anthem is available at http://www.anthem.com/ . 

DATASOURCE: American Association of Diabetes Educators



CONTACT:  Diana Pihos of American Association of Diabetes Educators,

[phone],  



Web site:  http://www.anthem.com/ 

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