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Jane Yardley, PhD, is the Director of the Research Unit in Physical Activity and Diabetes at the Montreal Clinic Research Institute, a member of the Alberta Diabetes Institute, and a member of the Women and Children’s Health Research Institute. Jane’s earlier work focused on blood glucose responses to resistance exercise, and the impact of prandial status (fasted vs. fed) on these responses. Her recent work has focused on sex and gender-related differences in exercise behaviours and blood glucose responses to exercise in people with type 1 diabetes, with a particular emphasis menses and menopause. She is a co-author of the 2016 American Diabetes Association Consensus Statement on Exercise and Physical Activity in Diabetes, and a recipient of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Alberta New Investigator Award.
