Insulin in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus – Where We’ve Come From and Where We’re Going
Nicole Pun, MD MScCH FRCPC
Topics: Diabetes, Insulin
Details
Objectives
- Review discovery of insulin and production of its various analogues and biosimilars
- Review pharmacodynamics of most common insulins, along with newer biosimilar insulins
- Discuss patient cases and factors influencing decision for insulin initiation and choice of insulin(s)
Faculty
Nicole Pun MD MScCH FRCPC
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Nicole Pun, MD MScCH FRCPC, is an endocrinologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an assistant professor at the University of Toronto. She completed her endocrinology subspecialty training in Toronto but has been to all corners of Ontario during her undergraduate, medical school, and internal medicine training. She has a love for teaching and education at all levels, having recently completed a Masters of Science in Community Health: Health Practitioner Teacher Education via the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Her clinical interests are varied throughout the field of endocrinology but has a special love for diabetes mellitus, PCOS and reproductive health. If she did not end up in medicine she probably would have ended up being a criminal profiler (she’s a psych major!) or a recipe developer.