Professor
McMaster University
McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences
Dr Hertzel C. Gerstein is an Endocrinologist and Professor at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, Canada, where he holds the Population Health Research Institute Chair in Diabetes. Dr Gerstein pioneered and firmly established international long-term diabetes-focused outcomes trials as the norm to support Evidence-Based Diabetes Care. RCTs that he designed and led have collectively included more than 90,000 people with either diabetes or prediabetes to date, and have studied and identified clinically important, life-saving diabetes therapies.
His research has been published in over 600 papers and his h index is 100. His work has been recognized by many awards, including the 2012 Canadian DIabetes ASsociation Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2022 American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award. Moreover, in 2016 he wrote and produced a widely viewed music video to mitigate the impact of diabetes on affected people.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
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