Joanne Rinker, MS, RD, CDE, LDN

Joanne Rinker is a Certified Diabetes Educator and Masters Level Registered Dietitian. For the past seven years she has worked to initiate, enhance, and facilitate diabetes self-management programs throughout North Carolina. Joanne’s recent consulting work has included starting a Diabetes Self-Management Program at a community hospital, teaching gestational diabetes classes, serving as the consulting dietitian for a county school system, and working in both adult and pediatric clinics.

Joanne has also worked with pediatric patients with diabetes since 2003 and enjoys the challanges of insulin adjustment, adjustments for growth spurts, social events and athletic opportunities. When asked about the positive outcomes she has helped to make in peoples lives, Joanne recalled the progress of a recent patient. “He was taking 4 different blood sugar medications when we met. After meeting with him every 2 weeks for 6 months, his blood sugar came down considerably. He was watching his diet, walking 3 miles daily, checking his blood sugar and adjusting his diet based on the results, and had an A1c of only 5.4...