Chicago native Jeanette Nolting-May is hoping that winters will be a little easier to bear in Washington, although she wasn't encouraged when she arrived in the nation's capital after a snowstorm. 'I just flew in from Chicago, and it's greener than green out there,' says Nolting-May, who has signed on as director of research at the Disease Management Association of America in Washington. 'I don't get it,' she jokes. 'I want to be where there's no snow.'
Nolting-May comes to the association after spending the past six years as a faculty member and senior researcher at the University of Illinois's medical school. There, she oversaw federally funded research projects on chronic diseases, such as arthritis and diabetes. Nolting-May, 38, has also been a lecturer and curriculum developer at Judson College in Elgin, Ill., and a senior research analyst at AMCORE Financial, a Midwest bank based in Rockford, Ill.
In her new role at DMAA, she will, among other things, work with members on developing outcome measures for disease management programs. Nolting-May calls the standardizing of outcome measures for the disease-management industry an important task as Baby Boomers age. 'Often Baby Boomers have one, two, and sometimes three chronic diseases,' says Nolting-May, who earned a doctorate in organization and management from Capella University in Minneapolis and a master's in public health from Northern Illinois University. 'Developing measures to assess disease-management programs will be important to employers and consumers alike.' -M.K.
