Melanie Duran

Melanie Duran has personally lived well with type 2 diabetes for over 25 years and is passionate about diabetes advocacy. After graduating from nursing school in 2013, she moved into a diabetes education role, and then graduated from the university of Missouri DNP FNP program in 2021 and began work as a primary care nurse practitioner. She began working as a diabetes specialist in 2023 and now works with people with diabetes in both the inpatient and outpatient setting at the university of New Mexico academic medical centre.