Principal Investigators
STEWART B. HARRIS, MD, MPH, FCFP, FACPM
Centre for Studies in Family Medicine
Thames Valley Family Practice Research Unit
Department of Family Medicine
100 Collip Circle, Suite 245, U.W.O. Research Park
London, Ontario
N6G 4X8
Dr. Stewart Harris holds The Ian McWhinney Chair in Family Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Dr. Harris is a Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine/Epidemiology with a cross-appointment in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Harris is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Project, an ongoing population-based epidemiologic and intervention study in the First Nations community of Sandy Lake, Ontario. From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Harris served as the medical director of the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital. A past Career Scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Health, Dr. Harris is a member of numerous national diabetes-related organizations including the Chair and lead author of the Canadian Diabetes Association 2003 Clinical Practice Guidelines, former Chair of the Clinical and Scientific Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association and board member of the National Diabetes Surveillance System. Dr. Harris has received numerous awards for teaching, health care research and service including a major gift from Great West Life to facilitate the dissemination of diabetes clinical practice guidelines into practice (2005-2008). Dr. Harris was also the recipient of The Peter F. Drucker Award for Canadian Nonprofit Innovation (September 2002).
Dr. Harris received his medical training at the University of Calgary in Alberta and undertook postgraduate studies in Epidemiology at The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Harris continues his clinical practice in addition to pursuing his research interests which focus on the development and evaluation of strategies to improve clinical outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. His major research interests include type 2 diabetes mellitus in high risk populations including Aboriginal Canadians and Latin American immigrants as well as translational research on improving the management of diabetes in the primary care setting. Dr. Harris has authored over 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as several book chapters and journal editorials.
BERNARD ZINMAN, MDCM, FRCPC, FACP
Mount Sinai Hospital
60 Murray St. Rm. L5-024
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 3L9
Bernard Zinman is Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes and holds the Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes Research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Zinman was Director of the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre (1993-2000) and is involved with diabetes care and research at both national and international levels. Dr. Zinman is the Principal Investigator of the University of Toronto Centre for the DCCT/EDIC (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications) study.
Dr. Zinman graduated MDCM from McGill University in Montreal, where he also received his postgraduate training in internal medicine. He undertook further training at the University of Toronto in Endocrinology.
Dr. Zinman has authored more than 300 publications in national and international journals, and over 60 book chapters and editorials. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes (awarded to the DCCT Investigators), the Alois Beringer Lecture Award, the Frederick G. Banting Award and the Gerald S. Wong Service Award of the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA). In November 2000, Dr. Zinman chaired the scientific program committee of the 17th International Diabetes Federation Congress held in Mexico City. In August 2003, Dr. Zinman delivered the Banting and Best Memorial Lecture at the International Diabetes Federation Congress in Paris, France. In 2006, Dr. Zinman received the American Diabetes Association's Outstanding Physician Clinician Award.
His main research interests include the long-term complications of diabetes mellitus, the development of new therapies for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, diabetes in Aboriginal communities, and studies directed at the prevention of diabetes.
ANTHONY HANLEY, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Nutritional Sciences
FitzGerald Building, University of Toronto
150 College St, room 341
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3E2
Dr. Hanley received his PhD in epidemiology from the University of Toronto in 2001, and was subsequently a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Centre at San Antonio with Dr. Steve Haffner. Since 2002, he has been a scientist in the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes (LSCD) at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. Recently, he has taken up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. Dr. Hanley's research interests include epidemiology of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, with a particular focus on diabetes in Aboriginal Canadian communities and other high-risk populations. For over a decade he has worked with Dr. Bernard Zinman and Dr. Stewart Harris and community partners in Sandy Lake First Nation on the Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Project. Dr. Hanley had the enormous privilege of living in Sandy Lake between 1993 and 1995 during the project's baseline epidemiological survey. This project is currently funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support 2 research initiatives: (1) to identify factors associated with the 10-year risk of incident diabetes in Sandy Lake, and (2) to assess the prevalence of diabetic complications and associated risk factors in this community.
Dr. Hanley has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Diabetes Epidemiology and a Canadain Diabetes Association (CDA) Research Scholorship. He serves on internal grant review committees for the CIHR, CDA, and BBDC, and is an external reviewer for various scientific journals including Diabetes, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Diabetes Care, Circulation, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.