Diabetes institutes launched nationwide with Pitt as model
Monday, March 24, 2008
By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08084/867503-85.stm,out of Pittsburgh
There's always hope that good ideas will spawn action and change.
Such is the case with the University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Institute, whose decades of research and 107 studies have mapped out a better approach to educating and treating people with diabetes.
Now Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute has opened one of its institutes in Milpitas, Calif., based in part on the research and philosophy developed by Pitt's institute.
The company also will use Pitt professionals as faculty members. Janice Zgibor, the Pitt institute's director of evaluation, will serve as a core faculty member at the California institute, while Pitt Diabetes Institute Executive Director Linda Siminerio and others will be guest faculty....
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