Ms. Bradshaw has more than thirty-eight years of nursing experience. Thirty-four of these years have been spent at Kings County Hospital Center where she is currently employed. As a Nurse Clinician and Certified Diabetes Educator, she has more than thirteen years active teaching expertise with adults, with Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes in pregnancy, utilizing group and individual methodologies on self-management skills and empowerment. She restructured the Adult One Stop Diabetes classes to a standardized ‘six-week session’, comprehensive program, which has now gained national recognition from the American Diabetes Association. She is the Clinical Support Champion for the KCHC Diabetes chronic disease collaborative and the coordinator of the Diabetes Group Visits.

Identifying the need for extensive education in children/adolescents with diabetes, she joined the Pediatric Endocrine (Diabetes/Obesity) clinic, and assisted in forming an Interdisciplinary Diabetes Team to meet most of their needs. This led to the publication ‘The Role of the Family in managing Therapy in Minority Children with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus’ in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism. She presently counsels children/adolescents with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and their parents in diabetes management, and actively assists in their group sessions.

Ms. Bradshaw received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Community Health Management and her Master of Science Degree in Health Care Administration. She is a Certified Community Health Nurse, and a member of the American Nurse Association, New York State Nurses Association, the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the Brooklyn Diabetes Task Force and HHC Chronic Disease Collaborative.