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Diabetes Canada’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada represent the best and most current evidence-based clinical practice data for health-care professionals. On a global stage, the Guidelines support Diabetes Canada's status as a leader in diabetes prevention and management, and help physicians guide their patients in the screening, prevention, diagnosis, care, management and education for type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.
Diabetes Canada’s mission is to lead the fight against diabetes by:
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Helping those affected by diabetes to live healthy lives
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Preventing the onset and consequences of diabetes
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Discovering a cure
We deliver our mission by:
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Providing people with diabetes and health-care professionals with education and services
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Advocating on behalf of people with diabetes
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Supporting research
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Translating research into practical applications
Please visit the frequently asked questions (FAQs) page for answers to commonly asked questions.
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2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines Committees
Executive Committee
Robyn L. Houlden
MD FRCPC
Lori Berard
RN CDE
Alice Y.Y. Cheng
MD FRCPC
Maureen Clement
MD CCFP
Ron Goldenberg
MD FRCPC FACE
Doreen Rabi
MD MSc FRCPC
Diana Sherifali
RN PhD CDE
Vincent Woo
MD FRCPC
Steering Committee
Robyn L. Houlden
MD FRCPC
Lori Berard
RN CDE
Gillian Booth
MD MSc FRCPC
Alice Y.Y. Cheng
MD FRCPC
Maureen Clement
MD CCFP
Kim Connelly
MBBS PhD
Denice Feig
MD MSc FRCPC
Jeremy Gilbert
MD FRCPC
Ron Goldenberg
MD FRCPC FACE
Noah Ivers
MD PhD CCFP
Ram Krishna
MSc (Physics) Post Graduate Dip Bus Admin
Peter J. Lin
MD CCFP
David Miller
MD FRCPC
Breay W. Paty
MD FRCPC
Bruce A. Perkins
MD MPH FRCPC
Diana Provenzano
BComm CPA CA
Doreen Rabi
MD MSc FRCPC
Rema Sanghera
RD MA CDE
Peter A. Senior
MBBS PhD FRCP FRCP(E)
Rick Siemens
B.Sc Pharm B.Sc. Biol CDE CPT
Diana Sherifali
PhD, CDE
Diane Wherrett
MD FRCPC
Vincent Woo
MD FRCPC
Jean-François Yale
MD CSPQ FRCPC
Catherine Yu
FRCPC MHSc
Expert Committee
Lenley Adams
MD FRCPC FACP
Gina Agarwal
MBBS(UK) MRCGP(UK) CCFP FCFP PHD (Epidemiology)
Zaina Albalawi
MD, FRCPC
Mohammed Almehthel
MD CCD ABIM FRCPC
Filiberto Altomare
MD FRCSC
Marni Armstrong
PhD
Simon L. Bacon
PhD
Harpreet S. Bajaj
MD MPH ECNU FACE
Richard Bebb
MD ABIM FRCPC
Lori Berard
RN CDE
Howard Berger
MD
Olivier F. Bertrand
MD PhD
Gillian Booth
MD MSc FRCPC
Keith Bowering
MD FRCPC FACP
Normand Boulé
PhD
Ari Breiner
MD MSc FRCPC
Vera Bril
MD FRCPC
Gerald Brock
MD FRCPC
Sonia Butalia
MD FRCPC MSc
Catherine B. Chan
PhD
David Cherney
MD PhD FRCPC
Ashen A. Chetty
MEd BScN APN CDE CCRA
Maureen Clement
MD CCFP
Kim Connelly
MBBS PhD
Michael Coons
CPsych CBSM
Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe
MD FCFP
David Dannenbaum
MD FCFP
Kaberi Dasgupta
MD MSc
Lois Donovan
MD FRCPC
Paula Dworatzek
PhD RD
Jean-Marie Ekoé
MD CSPQ PD
John Embil
BSc(Hon) MD FRCPC FACP
Dean T. Eurich
PhD
Denice Feig
MD MSc FRCPC
Pierre Filteau
MD LMCC CFPC/CMFC
David Fitchett
MD FRCPC
Catherine Freeze
MEd RD CDE
Jeremy Gilbert
MD FRCPC
Richard E. Gilbert
MD PhD FRCPC
Ariane Godbout
MD FRCPC
Jeannette Goguen
MD MEd FRCPC
Ron Goldenberg
MD FRCPC FACE
Michael Green
MD MPH CCFP FCFP
Loren D. Grossman
MD FRCPC FACP
Enza Gucciardi
PhD
Stasia Hadjiyannakis
MD FRCPC
Heidi Haensel
MD FRCPC
Ilana Halperin
MD MSc FRCPC
Betty Harvey
RN(EC) BScN MScN CDE
Robert Hegele
MD FRCPC FACP
Mélanie Henderson
MD, FRCPC, PhD
Rita Henderson
MA, PhD
Josephine Ho
MD MSc FRCPC
Robyn L. Houlden
MD FRCPC
Céline Huot
MD MSc FRCPC
Nadira Husein
MD FRCPC MLPc
S. Ali Imran
MBBS FRCP FRCPC
Karen Ingersoll
RN BN CDE
Susie Jin
RPh CDE CPT BCGP
Charlotte Jones
MD FRCPC
Tina Kader
MD FRCPC CDE
Pamela Katz
MD FRCPC
Erin Keely
MD FRCPC
Glen P. Kenny
PhD FCAHS
Nadia A. Khan
MD FRCPC MSc
Amin Kherani
BSc MD FRCS(C)
Aileen Knip
RN BScN MN CCHN(C) CDE
Joshua M. Lakoff
MD FRCPC
Philippe L. L'Allier
MD
Pierre Larochelle
MD PhD FRCPC
David C. W. Lau
MD PhD FRCPC
Tessa Laubscher
MBChB CCFP FCFP
Jonathon Leipsic
MD FRCPC FSCCT
Lawrence Leiter
MD FRCPC FACP FAHA
Laurent Legault
MD FRCP
Lorraine Lipscombe
MD MSc FRCPC
Peter Liu
MD FRCPC, FACC
Julie A. Lovshin
MD PhD FRCPC
Lori MacCallum
BScPhm PharmD RPh CDE
Barbara MacDonald
RN BSN MS-DEDM CDE
Gail MacNeill
BNSc RN MEd CDE
Janine Malcolm
MD FRCPC
G.B. John Mancini
MD FRCPC FACC
Phil McFarlane
MD PhD FRCPC
Angela McGibbon
MD PhD FRCPC
Graydon S. Meneilly
MD FRCPC FACP
Adam Millar
MD FRCPC
Andrea Miller
RN(EC)
David Miller
MD FRCPC
Sarah Moore
RN(EC) BScN MN CDE
Yvonne Mullan
MSc RD CDE
Geetha Mukerji
MD MSc FRCPC
Mariam Naqshbandi Hayward
MSc
Meranda Nakhla
MD FRCPC MSc
Kara Nerenberg
MD MSc
Constadina Panagiotopoulos
MD FRCPC
Breay W. Paty
MD FRCPC
Sue D. Pedersen
MD FRCPC
Bruce A. Perkins
MD MPH FRCPC
Paul Poirier
MD PhD FRCPC FCCS FACC FAHA
Ally P.H. Prebtani
BScPhm MD FRCPC
Zubin Punthakee
MD MSc FRCPC
Paolo Raggi
MD FACC FAHA FACP FASNC FSCCT
Michael Riddell
PhD
David J. Robinson
MD FRCPC FCPA DFAPA
Robert S. Roscoe
BSc Pharm ACPR CDE
Elizabeth Tan Rosolowsky
MD MPH FRCPC FAAP
Stuart Ross
MB ChB FRACP FRCPC
André Roussin
MD, FRCPC
Rema Sanghera
RD MA CDE
Peter A. Senior
MBBS PhD FRCP FRCP(E)
Anita R. Shack
BFA, DC, FATA
Baiju Shah
MD PhD
Arya Sharma
MD PhD DSc (hc) FRCPC
Diana Sherifali
RN, PhD, CDE
Rick Siemens
B.Sc Pharm B.Sc. Biol CDE CPT
John L. Sievenpiper
MD PhD FRCPC
Ronald J. Sigal
MD MPH FRCPC
Scot H. Simpson
BSP PharmD MSc
James A. Stone
PhD FRCPC FAACVPR FACC
Jean-Claude Tardif
MD FRCPC FACC FCAHS
Daniel Tessier
MD MSc FRCPC
Sheldon Tobe
MD MScCH (HPTE) FRCPC FACP FASH
Ellen L. Toth
MD FRCPC
Elly Trepman
MD
Barna Tugwell
MD FRCPC
Jacob A. Udell
MD MPH FRCPC
Michael Vallis
PhD RPsych
Subodh Verma
FRCSC MD PhD MSc
Sean Wharton
MD PharmD FRCPC
Diane Wherrett
MD FRCPC
Sandi Williams
BA MEd CDE
Vincent Woo
MD FRCPC
Jean-François Yale
MD CSPQ FRCPC
Afshan Zahedi
MD FRCPC
Douglas Zochodne
MD FRCPC
Independent Methods Review Committee
Doreen Rabi
MD MSc FRCPC
Diana Sherifali
RN PhD CDE
Sonia Butalia
MD FRCPC MSc
David J. T. Campbell
MD PhD MSc
Dereck Hunt
MD MSc FRCPC
Alexander A. Leung
MD MPH FRCPC MRCP(UK) FACP
Jeffrey Mahon
MD MSc FRCPC
Kerry McBrien
MD MPH
Charlotte McDonald
MD MSc FRCPC
Valerie A. Palda
MD MSc FRCPC
External Reviewers
Ian Blumer
MD FRCPC
Stephanie Boutette
MPH RD
Gemma Cheng
MD
Cheril Clarson
MRCP(UK) FRCP
Kieran Cooley
BSc ND
Elizabeth Cummings
MD FRCPC
Shelita Dattani
BScPhm PharmD
Ian de Boer
MD MS
Peggy Dunbar
MEd PDt CDE
Hertzel C. Gerstein
MD MSc DABIM FRCPC
Michelle Greiver
MD MSc CCFP FCFP
Milan Gupta
MD FRCPC FCCS
Stewart Harris
MD MPH FCFP FACPM
Thomas Hawke
PhD
Bernard Hurley
MD FRCSC
Sarah Lawrence
MD FRCPC
Richard Lewanczuk
PhD MD
Joanne Lewis
RD CDE
David W.L. Ma
PhD
Elisabeth R. Mathiesen
Daniel Ngui
BSc PT MD FCFP
Patrick J. O'Connor
MD MA MPH
Margaret Odell
MDCM CCFP
Nav Persaud
MSc BA
Rodica Pop-Busui
MD PhD
Kevin Pottie
MD CCFP
Edmond Ryan
MD
Carol Schwartz
MD FRCSC DABO
Alan Sinclair
MSc MD FRCP
Marsha Werb
MD FRCPC
Thomas Wolever
DM PhD
Staff
Tracy Barnes
MA MJ
Alarica Fernandes
BSc (Hon)
Jovita Sundaramoorthy
MSc
Consultants
Laura Banfield
Librarian, Health Sciences Library, McMaster University
Lisa Bicum
Designer, Motorware Inc.
Stephanie Sanger
Librarian, Health Sciences Library, McMaster University
Dissemination and Implementation Committee
Content and guidance for guidelines.diabetes.ca has been provided by the Diabetes Canada’s Clinical Practice Guidelines Dissemination and Implementation Committee.
Co-chairs: Noah Ivers and Catherine Yu
Javed Alloo
Dale Anderson
Noreen Antonyshin
Kathryn Arcudi
Marni Armstrong
Simon Bacon
Anya Brox
Ken Burns
Sonia Butalia
Dave Campbell
Murray Campbell
Alice Cheng
Sophie Desroches
Kristopher Dirks
Pierre Filteau
Kathy Flint
Jonathon Fowles
Paul Frydrych
Bozena Fusek
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Ron Goldenberg
Catherine Goulet-Delorme
Robyn Houlden
Stephen Hull
Maggie Jiang
Susie Jin
Shelley Jones
Ram Krishna
Tessa Laubscher
Kim Lavoie
Peter Lin
Krista Loessl
Lisa Maks
Janine Malcolm
Maggie McCann
Amanda Mikalachki
David Miller
Darlene Miller-Cash
Amber Mitchell
Geetha Mukerji
Daniel Ngui
Jennica Nichols
Nicole Pacheco
Kylie Peacock
Daniel Plante
Sherri Pockett
Diana Provenzano
Jeremy Rezmovitz
Maria Ricupero
Rick Siemens
Ron Sigal
Alex Singer
Martha St. Pierre
Christina Vaillancourt
Michael Vallis
Pauline Wijeyesekera
Staff
Tracy Barnes
Stephanie Boutette
Sherry Calder
Carolyn Gall Casey
Joanne Lewis
Helena Macario
Jovita Sundaramoorthy
Educational grant funding for the dissemination of the 2018 Guidelines was provided by AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim Canada /Eli Lilly Canada Alliance, Janssen Inc., and Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. Diabetes Canada thanks these organizations for their commitment to diabetes in Canada.
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MDCM MSc FRCPC • Edward Brawer
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MScBMC BSc(Hons)
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