What is DiSH?
Diabetes in School Health (DiSH) is a telementoring program for school nurses, connecting school nurses and pediatric diabetes clinicians, with the shared goal of improving diabetes care in schools and decreasing health disparities. Each DiSH session includes a 10-15 minute talk by a pediatric diabetes expert followed by 45-50 minutes of rich discussion of de-identified experiences, cases and questions to promote collaborative learning between school personnel in communities across the state.
Inspiration from our Founder and Director
DiSH® was inspired by the need to address pediatric diabetes disparities in a way that would directly impact our patients and communities - - by partnering with leaders in local school health. Watch this video as Dr. Pollock discusses how DiSH® started and how it’s growing.
Project ECHO
Project ECHO ® is a lifelong learning and guided practice model that is designed to build capacity of individuals around the state to provide evidence-based services. The heart of the ECHO model is its hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing networks. Hub and spoke knowledge-sharing networks create a learning loop:
Community providers learn from specialists.
Community providers learn from each other.
Specialists learn from community providers as best practices emerge
Meet the DiSH Team
Allison Pollock
DiSH Director, pediatric endocrinologist, affiliated with the University of Washington and University of Wisconsin. The mastermind behind the Diabetes in School Health Program!
Whitney Beaton
A clinical diabetes nurse specialist, based out of the UW-Madison Pediatric Endocrinology Department! Whitney prepares DiSH session content, runs DiSH sessions and facilitates discussion, and provides educational materials to DiSH participants.
Bobbi Burgess
A medical student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health this fall. Bobbi serves as the project coordinator, and creates all promotional content for the DiSH Program including emails and social media!
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