Andrea Limbourg was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 21. She currently lives with her family in Paris, France, where she works and volunteers on programs that support patient education, patient partnership in health care, and health care services over the lifespan. Through her professional work and patient partner experience, she brings a

Cherise Shockley was diagnosed with LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) in her early ’20s and felt completely isolated before discovering the power of social media to connect to the diabetes community, and exchange with and support peers. She is the Corporate Digital-Social Media Manager and has 12 years of digital communications expertise in the

Dr. Justin Presseau is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa in Canada, and a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute where he leads the Psychology and Health Research Group (http://ohri.ca/pahrg/) and is core faculty within the Centre for

Selma Chipenda Dansokho is a research associate working in Holly Witteman’s team. She holds a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies. Her work is driven by a commitment to developing new knowledge and alternate experience-based understandings of life and behavior, and to applying these findings to improving theory-building, research, teaching, policy making and

Yves-Fernand N'Da holds a PhD in mathematics from Laval University. His areas of research interest are abstract harmonic analysis and theoretical computer science and their applications to living systems. Passionate about programming, he has worked as a freelance developer for a number of companies. Currently,  as a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Holly Witteman's laboratory,

Research team

Sandrine is a software engineering student at Laval University and has experience in the biomedical field. She has been working for several years with Holly Witteman's team, which introduced her to diabetes research. She joined the CommuniT1D project to learn more about this health condition.

Korey is personally and professionally committed to improving the lives of people with type 1 diabetes. As Professor and Staff Psychologist at Stanford University School of Medicine, he runs a behavioral science laboratory aimed at optimizing health and quality of life outcomes. A recipient of federal and foundation grants and author of over 190

Matthew is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université Laval and researcher at the VITAM Research Centre for Sustainable Health. He is a health services researcher whose research aims to improve the delivery and organization of mental health services and promote the recovery and wellbeing of people experiencing

Jackie is a Scientist and Co-Lead of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and an Affiliate Scientist at the Princess Margaret Research Institute. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and