Transforming Diabetes Care Through Education
About Us
The Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute provides health professionals with education and training with the goal to improve diabetes patients' outcomes. Johnson & Johnson will open and operate state-of-the-art instructional facilities around the world. Thousands of diabetes specialists in each country will receive skills training and education customized to reflect the needs of patients and providers in their region.
The Learning Environment
- In each country, nationally recognized diabetes experts design the curricula and conduct the training programs.
- The curricula is customized to meet the needs of health professionals in each region. In general, courses emphasize ways to use innovative practice models and existing diabetes tools and technologies—in real time—to solve patient problems.
- Training takes place in modern learning environments and entails several days of course work. Although the curricula varies, courses address country guidelines and standards of care, in-person product training, insulin pump therapy, communicating with patients and families, use of new tools and technologies, blood glucose pattern management and software solutions, and reimbursement for diabetes care.
Commitment to Education
- The Institute underwrites all program costs for health care professionals to attend the Institute, including travel and accommodations. Each region has a process for recruiting and selecting attendees.
- In the United States, the course involves product training, and as such attendees do not receive continuing medical education (CME) credits.
- Led by Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MD, former Acting U.S. Surgeon General and international public health expert. Dr. Moritsugu has Type 1 diabetes and thus, appreciates the many challenges facing patients—and diabetes professionals—today.