Endocrinologist, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego VA Healthcare System, Founder and Director, Taking Control of Your Diabetes
TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR DIABETES
(TCOYD) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to educating, motivating and empowering people with diabetes and their loved ones to take a more active role in their own health care.
Taking Control Of Your Diabetes is taking on a challenge that, to our knowledge, has never been attempted, successfully or unsuccessfully, by anyone, anywhere. In the fall of 2006 we launched a new kind of continuing medical education program (CME) for healthcare providers. Educating physicians on the most up-to-date strategies in diabetes management is a very slow and difficult process. One of the biggest challenges in improving diabetes care in this country is to change the attitudes of caregivers towards their patients struggling with diabetes. With these programs, TCOYD hopes to foster a more empathetic atmosphere and more open communication between people with diabetes and their healthcare providers.
