Dr. Jimmy A. Reyes is the Associate Director of Practice and Education at the Iowa Board of Nursing. In addition, he has served in the deanship and professorship capacity at Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa College of Nursing. His research interests include the development and evaluation of community-based, family-centered, and collaborative diabetes self-management programs to treat diabetes in community dwelling Latino elders. Furthermore, he has worked on testing the efficacy of innovative training models to promote and foster the use of best practices/evidence-based diabetes practices, knowledge transfer, and sustainability.

He has received a Doctor of Nursing Practice in organizational leadership from the University of Iowa, a Master’s of Science in nursing and adult/gerontological nurse practitioner degrees from the University of Iowa as well as the Bachelor of Science in nursing. Currently, he is completing a PhD in Gerontology at Concordia University Chicago.