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Diabetes care, built into how your clinic operates

I'm Joycelyn Cornthwaite. I've designed and built diabetes programs, worked them myself, and led the teams that operate them. That means the data gathering, credentialing, charting and technology pathways that make a program run, and keep running after my engagement ends.

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8,000+
annual visits supported across 19 clinics
$1.7M
in grant and industry funding over four years as Co-PI
<15 days
prior authorization turnaround, pharmacy and DME alike
800+
patients enrolled in approximately one year on workflows I built
CLINICAL PRACTICEUTHEALTH HOUSTON | UT PHYSICIANS WOMEN'S CENTERS · DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE · DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS · CANYON RANCH INSTITUTE LIFE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
ADVOCACYCITIES FOR BETTER HEALTH, HOUSTON · ADA COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP BOARD, CENTRAL SOUTH TEXAS · ADA STATE OF DIABETES · NQMF DIABETES WORKING GROUP · DIABETES DISASTER RESPONSE COALITION

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Consulting

Programs, workflows and research, built into how your clinic operates.

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Provider partnerships

Patient sessions and co-management under your in-house team, through scheduled telehealth visits.

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Speaking

Conferences, medical schools and staff trainings, on process, workflow and diabetes technology.

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Personal 1:1 Care

One-to-one visits with a partner in your care. I keep a small panel of active patients.

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Consulting services

Three connected threads, built by a clinical specialist who has delivered them in inpatient and ambulatory clinics, including a large academic medical center, for more than fifteen years. Every workflow is built to serve two people at once, the patient who moves through it and the team who works in it.

Create a DSMES program

Data gathering and needs assessment, credentialing pathways for your staff, chart and documentation development, and efficiency gains measured against a baseline we set on day one.

Built UTHealth Houston's second accredited outpatient diabetes program and scaled it from zero to supporting 19 clinics where their OB/GYNs and MFMs practice, plus external referrals into their specialty teams.

Design and support clinical research for diabetes care

Study enrollment and screening workflows inside the clinical record, data capture designed around good clinical practice, and outcomes tracking your quality and research programs can actually report from.

Developed the workflows that enrolled 800+ patients in approximately one year. Co-PI on grant- and industry-funded clinical research totaling $1.7M over four years.

Develop technology-integrated workflows

Care technology made usable for the people who live with it, clinicians and patients alike. Prior-authorization workflows and work queues, CGM ordering and data pathways, remote patient monitoring built on integrated diabetes systems, and the Epic order sets and consult notes that hold it all together.

Pharmacy and DME prior authorizations alike turned around in under 15 days.

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Resources

Watch and listen. Panels, podcasts and talks on diabetes technology and care.

Some appearances were industry sponsored and are labeled.

Joycelyn Cornthwaite
Diabetes Care and Education Specialist of the Year (2019)
Department of the Army Civilian Service Achievement Medal
Fifty Years, Fifty Highlights, McGovern Medical School
★ 4.95 patient rating as a clinician

Hi, I'm joy

I've been building clinical workflows across teams and with clinicians for close to twenty years, beginning in diabetes care as an Army Medicine civilian at the Department of Defense's Winn Army Community Hospital and the VA's community-based clinic in Savannah. I was able to expand those skills to UTHealth in the Texas Medical Center, leading diabetes education and nutrition services across their OB/GYN and MFM network alongside exceptional clinical faculty and staff. Then I earned a Yale MBA, because building programs is a business problem as much as a clinical one. Today I speak on process, workflow and diabetes technology at professional conferences and in advocacy work. And I still see patients, so the workflows I design are ones I work in myself.

I know how programs get funded, how they get reimbursed, and what keeps them running.

MBA, Yale School of Management
BA, Kinesiology, Rice University
MS, Clinical Nutrition, Florida State University
Registered & Licensed Dietitian, RD, LD
Currently licensed in Texas and Florida
Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist (CDCES)
Prior Authorization Certified Specialist
(PACS)

We build the program together

A fixed-scope setup sprint delivers a running program with the referral workflow, curriculum, devices and training in place. After launch, most clinics stay on a monthly retainer, and some scale across sites or build toward accredited DSMES.

Start with a discovery meeting

Tell me what you need, personal or professional. Twenty minutes of discovery shows us both what a collaboration looks like. If it's a fit, the appointment link or engagement letter follows.

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joy@diabeteswithjoy.com
Based in Houston, Texas, consulting nationwide
Clinical licenses in Texas and Florida

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