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Bernard Zinman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine

  • Professor Emeritus/Emerita
    Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine
  • 416-586-8747 (Work)
  • 416-586-4740 (Fax)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada

BIO

Bernard Zinman is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Stephen and Suzie Pustil Diabetes Research Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Dr Zinman’s main research interests include the long-term complications of diabetes mellitus, the evaluation of new therapies for type 1 and type 2 diabetes, diabetes in Aboriginal communities, and studies directed at the prevention of diabetes. He received the American Diabetes Association (ADA)’s Outstanding Physician Clinician Award, and in 2009 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the CDA and the Novartis Prize in Diabetes. In November 2011, Dr Zinman was appointed to the Order of Canada. In 2020 Dr Zinman received the Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award from the ADA.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Appointed as an Officer - Judy Pencer Family Chair in Diabetes Research
    Order of Canada, Canada2019 - 2019
  • Recipient of the American Diabetes Association's Outstanding Achievement
    Clinical Diabetes Research Award, United States2020 - 2020

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director of the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1993 - 2000
  • Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes
    Ontario diabetes research clinic2000 - present
  • Senior Scientist
    Mount Sinai's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute2000 - present

DEGREES

  • MD
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Internal medicine
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Endocrinology
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

CERTIFICATIONS

  • American Diabetes Association (ADA)’s Outstanding Physician Clinician Award
    American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, United States

AVAILABILITY

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