Description
Dr. Diane Wherrett is the Centre Director of the Canadian site of the NIH multicentre clinical trial group, Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, and a member of the TrialNet Steering Committee. Dr. Wherrett leads a Canadian research consortium, Canadian Population Screening for Risk of Type 1 Diabetes Research Consortium, CanScreen T1D, funded by CIHR and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to assess the acceptability and feasibility of screening for type 1 diabetes risk in Canadian children, supporting the development of a pilot screening program. Both of these research programs aim to translate research findings to clinical care, through early identification of diabetes risk and therapies that delay or prevent type 1 diabetes.
