As a physician I have worked extensively with people who have diabetes and are struggling with or neglecting diabetes self-care. I have also served as the medical director for grants that have helped clinics improve the care they provide to people with diabetes. I offer motivational interviewing trainings to healthcare organizations and also work with small groups who want to learn MI. I am especially interested in working with practitioners and organizations that serve marginalized populations. I also am the co-author of a book written with Bill Miller that was published in 2015 by Guilford Press, Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes Care.
Learning new skills can be especially challenging. I provide highly interactive MI trainings that create a safe environment for learning new skills. Participants work collaboratively with me and their colleagues during the entire training. MI fits well in the healthcare offered to people with chronic medical conditions. Multidisciplinary teams with practitioners capable of using MI can more comfortably work with people who have recently developed new chronic conditions or with those who have lived with a chronic condition for years. MI helps clinicans work more capably with people others consider to be "difficult," those struggling with or completly neglecting the self-care of a chronic condition.
