This week I advanced to the rank of professeure titulaire, which translates as full professor. For reference, because the translations are confusing across English and French and I routinely run into people who have trouble with the confusion, I will use this opportunity to clarify: French English professeur.e assistant.e a rank below assistant professor (does […]
The following presents the contents of a tweet thread I posted today (available here). I am also posting it here in blog form because I know that not everyone is on Twitter and/or is able to access tweet threads. The appalling ableism in health care, government, academia, and society is even more evident than usual […]
The following is a lightly edited version of a patient testimonial I wrote in December 2014. I wrote it to include as a required element of a letter of intent package for a research network funding application to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research. At the time, I emphasized to the […]
Me, a few years pre-diagnosis: I was diagnosed with diabetes 33 years ago yesterday. I spent a month living in Pasqua Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan, injecting insulin into an orange, making friends with a little girl with leukemia, and missing school desperately. When I went home, I took Toronto & NPH insulin twice a day […]
My DIY standing desk at my university office “Sitting is the new smoking,” they say. Since I already have type 1 diabetes, I don’t need extra health risk factors. My PhD is in Human Factors, a field that include ergonomics, so I have been familiar with the idea of standing desks for a while. About […]
From an invited talk I gave at The XXXIII FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine in June 2014 in which I was making a point about the need to think about what is truly important to people:
I have organized a symposium at an upcoming conference in Miami. The topic is medical decision making in diabetes, and the focus is on incorporating diversity. Mila Ferrer is one of our speakers, and we have some very exciting(1) academic speakers as well. “Medical decision making” is academic speak for everything from “helping people with […]
Last night, I glanced at twitter just before going to sleep. (Rarely a good idea, I know.) I noted a tweet posted by the account of the editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, a high impact and generally (no pun intended) excellent journal: Simple experiment in #JGIM finds that #diabetes feedback using grades, […]
