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Diabetes Action Canada’s (DAC) Director of Patient Engagement and Knowledge Mobilization, Linxi Mytkolli, is one of 16 home cooks competing on Season 9 of MasterChef Canada. Linxi is making history as the first person living with Type 1 diabetes to compete on a MasterChef franchise anywhere in the world. For Linxi, entering the MasterChef kitchen […]

New research led by Dr. Carly Whitmore and colleagues’ highlights young adults’ desire for diabetes care that looks beyond glucose measures and recognize the ongoing emotional labour of living with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes care is about more than the numbers HbA1c, time in range and other clinical measures are essential to managing type 1 […]

Macenzie Rebelo joins the Diabetes Action Canada (DAC) team as a Communication and Engagement Associate. She is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University, where she earned her Master’s in Journalism. Over the past four years, she has dedicated her journalism to advocating for people with autoimmune conditions and disabilities. Drawing on her lived experience with […]

Applications are now open for the next Research-to-Action Fellowship cohort, with only eight days left to apply. This year, the Research-to-Action Fellowship at Diabetes Action Canada is entering an exciting new chapter. With support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, we are expanding the Fellowship internationally, creating paid leadership roles for alumni, and strengthening the support available to […]

Macenzie Rebelo is the Communication and Engagement Associate with Diabetes Action Canada (DAC). She attended the opening of Within the Highs and Lows: Young and Type 1 Photo Exhibition on behalf of DAC. Drawing on her lived experience with an autoimmune condition, she is passionate about advancing equity and inclusion and amplifying community voices to […]

A new paper co-authored by Diabetes Action Canada’s (DAC) Linxi Mytkolli argues that diabetes distress may not fully capture the emotional reality of living with diabetes. Instead, that loss and grief are also central, and often overlooked, parts of the experience.   For decades, the concept of diabetes distress has helped clinicians and researchers better understand the emotional burden of living with diabetes without stigmatization. But according […]

Conrad Pow is the Senior Lead for Digital Health and oversees Diabetes Research Connect at Diabetes Action Canada. As a father of a child with Type 1 Diabetes, Conrad brings a deeply personal perspective to his work, advocating for the importance of data in improving health outcomes for those living with chronic conditions. Recently, I […]

This piece was written by Linxi Mytkolli, Director of Patient Engagement at Diabetes Action Canada and a member of the steering committee for the first Global Summit to End Diabetes Stigma, this piece shares her reflections after attending and facilitating the event. The End Diabetes Stigma Global Summit in Jaipur, India, has come to a […]