HRC Diabetes Speakers and Presenters

Dr. David Hill
Scientific Director, Lawson Health Research Institute

Dr. André Carpentier
FRQS Cardiometabolic health, Diabetes and Obesity
Centre de recherche sur le diabète, l’obésité et les complications cardiovasculaires
Université de Sherbrooke

New Technologies

Dr. Ahmad Haidar
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

Dr. Margaret Lawson
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and CHEO Research Institute

Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

The Genetics of Diabetes

Dr. Rick Austin
Amgen Canada Research Chair in Nephrology at
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton

Dr. Susanne Clee
University of British Columbia

Dr. Robert Screaton
CHEO Research Institute

Dr. Robert Sladek
Montreal Diabetes Research Center

Advances in Therapeutics

Dr. Patricia Brubaker
Department of Physiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Hertzel Gerstein
Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Dr. Ravi Retnakaran
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Obesity, Lifestyle and Poverty (Adults and Childhood)

Dr. Brian Rodrigues
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia

Dr. Kristi Adamo
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute

Canadian Clinical Trial Network (JDRF)

Dr. Cheril Clarson
Head of Paediatric Endocrinology, Department of Paediatrics, Western University

Dr. Irene Hramiak
Department of Medicine, Western University
Site Leader for JDRF Canadian Clinical Trials Network