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Joanna Butler


Dip.Diabetes, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Diabetes, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation


Joanna has been a diabetes specialist nurse since 1986 and is now working at Hamad General Hospital. Joanna is from the UK; she trained and worked in London both in primary and secondary care. Her last post in the UK was as a consultant nurse in Wandsworth, London where her role was to integrate primary and secondary care services. Joanna has a particular interest in diabetes education both for staff and patients. She was instrumental in the introduction of DESMOND to Qatar - a type 2 diabetes self-management education program. In the UK she set up education programs for nurses and supported community nurses to develop skills to enable people with diabetes to self-manage. During her time in Qatar Joanna has initiated a number of nurse education projects and has worked with the College of the North Atlantic Qatar to introduce a diabetes multidisciplinary education program for health care professionals. She has worked in partnership with the Nurse Education Department to set up foundations in diabetes and runs education sessions for nurses on the wards. Joanna maintains her clinical skills working in the Staff Medical Center. Joanna has presented both nationally and internationally, written books on diabetes and published articles, the most recent in 2015 on diabetes and stroke in Qatar.
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