Dr. Matthew Corcoran offers consultative coaching and educational services in diabetes management for athletes, and for those pursuing the implementation of fitness, exercise, and sports in their life with diabetes. Dr. Matt is privileged to have worked with many extraordinary people who challenge themselves and their diabetes on a daily basis. He has great insight into the challenges through his extensive work with Diabetes Training Camp Foundation, consultating with professional, collegiate, endurance and recreational athletes with diabetes. He also works with clients with T1D who looking to improve their health and life with fitness and training. He has worked extensively with teens with T1D who are taking on the challenge of high school, club, travel and collegiate sports and thoroughly enjoys seeing young athletes take their performance to the next level, despite their diabetes.. Dr. Matt values his partnership and relationship with those living with diabetes, and wants them to take tremendous pride in all that they achieve.
Coaching services are available for teens and adults with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood), and those who might not be sure what ‘type’ of diabetes they have – if you aren’t sure, then your health care providers might be confused too!
“Matt Corcoran’s passion for helping those with diabetes is unmatched. His knowledge and compassion have helped thousands of patients, campers and staff he’s met through the years.”
Marcus Grimm, Team Type 1 Amateur Athlete of the Year, 2012
Dr. Corcoran earned his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine before moving to the University of Chicago Hospitals and completing his internship and residency in internal medicine and fellowship in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism. Dr. Corcoran maintains a special interest in diabetes care and education, and currently serves as Medical Director for Shore Physicians Group diabetes and endocrinology practice in South Jersey.
Corcoran’s commitment to improving the lives of those with diabetes extends to his work as a member of the Board of Directors for both the South Jersey Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Diabetes Training Camp Foundation.
Dr. Corcoran is recognized nationally and internationally in diabetes, exercise and sports and speaks nationally on the topic. Corcoran has worked extensively with recreational and endurance athletes with diabetes and has consulted with high school, collegiate, Olympic and professional athletes with Type 1 diabetes. He was recently honored for his work as a physician and educator by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) as one of twelve diabetes “Game Changers” in their 2016 People to Know edition of their Diabetes Forecast publication.
Additional experience in national leadership roles includes his role on the faculty of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) PEAK program that is committed to educating healthcare providers and patients regarding the management of diabetes and exercise. Corcoran also serves on the research and writing group for the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Scientific Statement on Diabetes and Exercise in the Active Individual and was a member of the research and writing committee for the National Athletic Trainer Association (NATA) Position Statement: Management of the Athlete with Type 1 diabetes Mellitus. He is also a member of the ADA Council on Exercise.
Throughout his career, Dr. Corcoran has worked with persons with diabetes in reaching their fitness and athletic goals. His clinical experience has made him keenly aware of the needs of those with diabetes when it comes to counsel on diabetes, exercise and sports. Dr. Corcoran has taken that experience and applied it in his daily practice, as well as in his previous consulting roles with amateur, collegiate and Olympic athletes with diabetes and his work as an adjunct faculty member with the world-renowned Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas.
An athlete himself, Dr. Corcoran is a gifted speaker and teacher committed to advocacy for people with diabetes. He and his wife Jody and their sons Brennan and Finn currently call Margate City, New Jersey, home and love spending time together being active outdoors
“I have been privileged through my work with the Diabetes Training Camp to meet an amazing array of inspirational people with diabetes who challenge it on a daily basis. By bringing medicine and exercise science together, we can make it easier for everyone with diabetes to stay on top of their game.”
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