Marian Batts-Turner, MSN, RN, CDE

Marian, an advanced practice nurse trained in clinical research, is Chief Nurse Consultant and CEO of Real Matters Consulting, LLC, a consultancy providing health and business management services to health care providers, patients, and small businesses in a variety of industries. Marian also has full-time faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Schools of Medicine (SOM) & Nursing (SON). She is a core faculty member of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Marian also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

She received her BS in Nursing and an MSN in Advanced Practice Nursing from the JHU-SON, Baltimore, MD. She also received a BS in Natural Sciences-Biology from Spelman College, Atlanta, GA and pursued doctoral studies at JHU-SON.

Marian’s areas of interest include health disparities as well as nursing and community health worker interventions among people with diabetes. She has spent much of her career developing and implementing diabetes education and training interventions to improve diabetes care. In doing so, she has worked with hundreds of patients individually and in group settings to facilitate improvement in their diabetes self-management.

Her areas of expertise have evolved over the last 15 years to include chronic disease management; health disparities; case management and education; community health worker training; program development, implementation, and evaluation; development of copy-righted nursing & community health worker interventions; and grant writing and management.

Marian has collaborated with other institutions to translate these interventions for use in other populations. She has also worked with colleagues in medicine, nursing, epidemiology, psychology, public health, and health policy to develop approaches to address and decrease health disparities. Furthermore, she consults to assist others in developing diabetes education and training programs and frequently volunteers her time to provide diabetes education in the community. Her work has been presented at national conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.