ORLANDO, Fla. — A program at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, is currently one of just two in the United States that trains nurse practitioners (NPs) to provide endocrine specialty care, but more could be on the way.
Established in 2016, the program was “a result of national demand for diabetes and endocrinology providers,” Program Founder and Director Kathryn Evans Kreider, DNP, APRN, FAANP, said at American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Annual Meeting 2025.
Downward trends in endocrinology fellowship recruitment concurrent with increases in endocrine diseases, including diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis, have led to acute shortages of endocrinology providers in many parts of the country. Recent data suggest that 70% of US counties have no endocrinologists.
Kreider, who…