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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:

  • Helping those affected by diabetes to live healthy lives
  • Preventing the onset and consequences of diabetes
  • Discovering a cure

We deliver our mission by:

  • Providing people with diabetes and health-care professionals with education and services
  • Advocating on behalf of people with diabetes
  • Supporting research
  • 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 OdellMDCM 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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