Dr. Hertzel Gerstein is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences. His transdisciplinary perspectives and collaborations have enabled him to design and lead several large international controlled trials that substantially expanded the evidence pertaining to the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its consequences. In addition to pioneering and firmly establishing international patient-important outcomes trials as the norm for clinical diabetes research, he continues to identify and test therapies and care innovations that improve the lives of people living with diabetes.