Jean Betschart Roemer is a pediatric nurse practitioner and certified diabetes educator in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is a past president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators and a past recipient of the association's Outstanding Health Professional Educator Award. She has written extensively, for health care professionals, parents, children, and teens and has worked with children with diabetes and their families since 1980. Roemer--a mother of three and grandmother of three--was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1968.
