Diabetes Canada Podcast

Managing diabetes is a full-time job—and it doesn’t end in retirement when you turn 65.

For this episode, we discuss diabetes after age 65 with Dr. Iliana Lega who is an endocrinologist and a scientist with the Women’s College Research Institute. Dr. Lega is an expert in the area of diabetes and aging.

Dr. Lega will be a speaker at the 2021 Diabetes Canada/CSEM Professional Conference and Annual General Meetings, which will take place virtually from November 23 – 26, 2021. This is Canada’s most highly anticipated diabetes-related conference and registration is open now at dcanconference.ca.

This episode’s guest is Ryan Hooey who is a Program Lead for the Come to Work Program at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), as well as a person living with type 1 diabetes. He shares his personal experience as someone living with diabetes and sight loss, including his work to make diabetes technology more accessible for everyone.

Visit CNIB.ca for more information on sight loss.

If you live with diabetes, your bone health may also be affected. Do you know the signs to look for?

Today’s guest is Dr. Claudia Gagnon. She is a clinician scientist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Universite Laval. Dr. Gagnon’s work looks at the impact of obesity and diabetes on bone health.

On our latest episode, Dr. Jennifer Estall discusses her work looking at molecular changes in diabetes and how they might help in better understanding the condition and developing new therapies.

Dr. Estall is Director, Molecular Mechanisms of Diabetes Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and an Adjunct Professor in the department of Experimental Medicine, Anatomy and Cell Biology at McGill University in Montreal.

She was also the 2020 winner of the Diabetes Canada Young Scientist of the Year Award.

Hormones in the intestine have proven to play an important role in managing type 2 diabetes, as well as regulating growth and function of the beta cell and the intestinal tract. But what does all of that mean for those living with the condition?

On this episode Dr. Patricia Brubaker discusses her work with glucagon-like peptides. Dr. Brubaker is a Professor in the department of Physiology at the University of Toronto and a Canada Research Chair in Vascular and Metabolic Biology.

She is also the 2020 winner of the Diabetes Canada Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to diabetes research.