Medicine care team

Administrative Assistant: Angela Uy
Phone: 416-480-6056
Fax: 416-480-5122
Email: angela.uy@sunnybrook.ca

Dr. Ilana Halperin is a full time staff physician and assistant professor in the job description of Clinician in Quality and Innovation and chief medical information officer at Sunnybrook Hospital and the University of Toronto. Dr. Halperin has a BSc from McGill University, an MD from the University of Western Ontario; she completed internal medicine and endocrinology training at the University of Toronto and an MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

Dr. Halperin has a large type 1 diabetes practice with a special interest in young adults and pregnant women and has been recognized as a Canadian national expert in the application of diabetes technologies into virtual care. She is a strong advocate for the use of advanced technologies to help people living with diabetes decrease the burden of this complex chronic condition. Additionally, Dr. Halperin has lead the publication of a Diabetes Canada Position paper on the use of DIY automated insulin delivery technologies and is currently co-leading a diabetes Canada guideline on glycemic management in T1D across the lifespan.

Dr. Halperin is currently only accepting new referrals for Type 1 diabetes and for any endocrine condition in pregnancy.

Selected Publications:

1. lIana J Halperin M.D., M.Sc. Prateek Sehgal B.Sc. Julia Lowe MBChB, M.MSc. Michelle Hladunewich M.D., M.Sc. Brian M Wong M.D. Increasing Timely Post-Partum Oral Glucose Tolerance Test Completion in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 2015 Jun 10.
2. Halperin IJ, Feig DS. The role of lifestyle interventions in the prevention of gestational diabetes. Curr Diab Rep. 2014 Jan 1;14(1):452. Principal Author.
3. Ilana J Halperin, Denice Feig. Insulin Infusion Devices in Pregnancy. In: Moshe Hod, Lois G Javanovic, Gian Carol Di Renzo, Alberto De Leiva, Oded Langer, editor(s). Textbook of Diabetes in Pregnancy. 3. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis; 2016. In Press. Principal Author.
4. Halperin IJ, Kumar SS, Stroup DF, Laredo SE. The association between the combined oral contraceptive pill and insulin resistance, dysglycemia and dyslipidemia in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Human Reproduction. 2011 Jan;26(1):191-201.

Related News and Stories:

• Pregnancy complications can damage a woman's long-term heart health: Diabetes and high blood pressure during gestation are risk factors for cardiovascular disease even years later (SRI Magazine, 2018)