Rate My Professor Diana Sherifali

Dr. Sherifali co-leads the McMaster Evidence Review and Synthesis Team and is Co-Director of the Health Coach Institute at York University. She serves as Deputy Editor of the Canadian Journal of Diabetes. Her research interests include designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies to support diabetes self-management at the patient, provider, and population levels, health coaching, and digital solutions to optimize diabetes management and quality of life across the lifespan. She was the co-lead for methods in Diabetes Canada's 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines and the lead author for the Self-Management Education and Support chapter. Key publications include "The effect of oral antidiabetic agents on A1C levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (Diabetes Care, 2010), "Obesity in adults: a clinical practice guideline" (CMAJ, 2020), and contributions to living systematic reviews such as "Living systematic review: 1. Introduction—the why, what, when, and how" (Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2017). She has received the Faculty of Health Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervision Award and was selected for the World Heart Federation's Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders program. Her work influences evidence synthesis and clinical guidelines in diabetes care.