About Dr. Blumer

I completed medical school at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1981 (oh my, so very long ago). I then did specialty training at at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. I've been in specialty practice in the Greater Toronto Area since 1985.

I have a teaching appointment with the University of Toronto and I have the true pleasure of being a faculty member of Dr. Steve Edelman's Taking Control of Your Diabetes organization (tcoyd.org) and speaking at many of the TCOYD conferences. Dr. Edelman (bless him) feels as passionately as I do about the importance of empowering people living with diabetes so that they can take charge of their diabetes.

I have been invited to give lectures across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Although theoretically I am the one doing the teaching, in reality I have been the one doing most of the learning as I come to understand the unique diabetes management challenges present in different areas of the world.

I have been fortunate enough to have been awarded Diabetes Canada's Gerald S. Wong Award given "in recognition of outstanding service and contribution to people with diabetes" and to have been honoured with a Diabetes Canada Special Dedication Award. I have also been fortunate enough to have been invited to Chennai, India to receive the Professor V. Mohan award, given to "scientists and clinicans who have contributed significantly to the advancement of diabetes management." The award I am most honoured to have received is a "Honorary Diabetes Degree" given to my by TCOYD "to an individual who does not have diabetes, but who really understands what it is like to live with the condition."

I have written (or co-written) books on diabetes, cooking with diabetes, celiac disease, doctor-patient relationships, and prescription drugs. I have also written a novel (under the pen name of Sidney Gale) which I am pleased to say has been praised by critics (yay!) and has been read by a grand total of hardly anyone (oh well, it was fun writing it anyhow).

These are some of the books I've written or co-written:

Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies (Now in its 3rd edition)	Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies (Now in an Updated Edition) (Co-written with Cynthia Payne RD CDE)	Celiac Disease For Dummies (Co-written with Sheila Crowe MD FRCPC)
Understanding Prescription Drugs For Canadians For Dummies (Co-written with Heather McDonald-Blumer MD FRCPC)	Blood Glucose Testing & Insulin Therapy For Canadians For Dummies (Adapted from Diabetes for Canadians for Dummies)	Le Diabete Pour Les Nuls (A French adaptation of Diabetes for Canadians for Dummies)
What Your Doctor Really Thinks	(A Chinese adaptation of What Your Doctor Really Thinks)	Unto The Breach (A "Young Adult" novel I wrote under my pen name: Sidney Gale)

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