Rate My Professor Diana Sherifali

Dr. Diana Sherifali is a Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and the inaugural holder of the Heather M. Arthur Population Health Research Institute/Hamilton Health Sciences Chair in Inter-Professional Health Research. She earned her BScN in Nursing in 1999 and PhD in 2006 from McMaster University, followed by a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Heart and Stroke Foundation in community-based cardiovascular prevention from 2007 to 2010. A registered nurse and Certified Diabetes Educator, she joined the School of Nursing in 2009. She holds joint faculty status in Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, serves as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Diabetes Care and Research Program at Hamilton Health Sciences, and is an Associate Researcher at the Population Health Research Institute. She is also a member of the Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research, McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, and Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre at McMaster.

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.