Ilana Halperin, Canada

Dr Ilana Halperin is a full-time staff physician and assistant professor in the job description of Clinician in Quality and Innovation. Dr Halperin has a BSc from McGill University and an MD from the University of Western Ontario; she completed internal medicine and endocrinology training at the University of Toronto and received an MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. She was an early adopter of digital tools and virtual care and was recently named as physician lead for the digital and virtual at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, where she practices. She has a large Type 1 diabetes practice with a special interest in young adults and pregnant women, and has been asked to speak numerous times on how to integrate technology into virtual diabetes visits.