Diana Sherifali

Overview

Diana Sherifali is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing. and the inaugural holder of the Heather M. Arthur Population Health Research Institute/Hamilton Health Sciences Chair in Inter-Professional Health Research. Her research program aims to optimize the management of diabetes and quality of life for older adults and people with diabetes across their lifespan. Diana aims to identify patient, provider and health system factors that impede or facilitate patient self-care; testing novel approaches to optimize patients’ participation in their own diabetes care; and identifying and implementing innovative approaches to knowledge synthesis and knowledge dissemination related to self-care and other aspects of diabetes.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor
• Associate Professor, Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
• Lead, McMaster Evidence Review and Synthesis Team
• Associate Scientist, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences
• Member, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), McMaster University
• Associate Member, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences
• Member, Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research (MODR), Faculty of Health Sciences
• Affiliate Scientist, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health
• Faculty Member (Status Only), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
• Member, Health Coach Institute, Health Leadership and Learning Network, York University

Education

• BScN (Nursing), McMaster University
• PhD, McMaster University
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Community-based cardiovascular prevention, Department of Medicine (Supervisor – Dr. Hertzel Gerstein), McMaster University