About Dr. Blumer

I was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec where I did my undergraduate studies at Vanier College and McGill University. I then headed to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario for medical school, graduating in 1981 (oh my, so very long ago) following which I did internal medicine 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 am an elected member of the Clinical & Scientific Section executive of the Canadian Diabetes Association where I serve as the head of the Dissemination & Implementation Committee for the CDA 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines. I am also a member of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

I have the privilege of being affiliated with the Charles H. Best Diabetes Centre and of working closely with the wonderful diabetes educators at the Ajax-Pickering Health Centre and Lakeridge Health Corporation.

I have a teaching appointment with the University of Toronto.

I have the true pleasue of being a faculty member of Dr. Steve Edelman's Taking Control of Your Diabetes organization (www.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 with diabetes so that they can, as the organization's name says, take control of your diabetes.


These are books I've written or co-written:

Diabetes For Canadians For Dummies (Now in its 2nd edition)	Diabetes Cookbook For Canadians For Dummies (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)