RESEARCH & AWARDS:
· Quality assurance project: “A retrospective study on the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus in patients admitted to Royal University Hospital with an acute myocardial infarction”
· Quality assurance project: “A retrospective study on the diagnosis and management of hypercholesterolemia in patients admitted to Royal University Hospital with an acute myocardial infarction”
· “A multicenter, 12 month, open-label study of atorvastatin 10-80 mg in patients with type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia and symptomatic atherosclerosis: efficacy and frequency of achieving LDL-C guideline target levels in the presence of coronary heart disease or other atherosclerotic disease, identified by symptoms of angina”
· “A 2-year, randomized, double-blind, parallel group study to compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of rosiglitazone versus placebo in combination with glipizide in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are inadequately controlled on glipizide therapy and who are intolerant to metformin or have a contraindication to metformin”
· “A long-term, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study of zenarastat (CI-1014) in diabetic patients at risk of foot ulcer”
· “Photoaffinity labelling of the human androgen receptor with methyltrienelone”
· PREDICTIVE Trial – trial on efficacy of Levemir on diabetes control
· External reviewer for Diabetes Canada position statement on Ramadan and diabetes
· “A Survey of Physician Experience and Treatment Satisfaction Prescribing Once-Weekly Semaglutide Injections for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Canada” Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism June 2022, volume 11, Issue 2, e0260 – Poster presentation at Diabetes Canada in Winnepeg, 2019
· Real World Impact of Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring on Hemoglobin A1c in People with Type 2 Diabetes in Canada that use Basal Insulin: A Prospective Chart Review – in progress

– Rutherford Scholarship 1988
– University Scholarship of Canada 1988 – 1992
– Dean’s Honor List, Faculty of Science, 1992 & 1993
– President’s Scholarship in Science 1993 & 1994
– Dr. John H. Fowler Excellence in Teaching Award 2012

EDUCATION
– Bachelor of Science, University of Alberta, Major: biological sciences, Minor: chemistry
– Doctor of Medicine University of Western Ontario
– Internal Medicine Residency University of Saskatchewan
– Endocrinology & Metabolism Fellowship, McGill University