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Transatlantic Medal Lecture: Dr. Drucker graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto (1980), and received postgraduate training (medicine and endocrinology) at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1980-81), the University of Toronto (1980-84) and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1984-87).


Dr. Daniel Drucker

| University of Toronto Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Dr. Drucker graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto (1980), and received postgraduate training (medicine and endocrinology) at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1980-81), the University of Toronto (1980-84) and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1984-87). He is currently Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a senior Scientist in the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System. Dr. Drucker has received numerous national and international awards in recognition of his research accomplishments elucidating the mechanisms of action and therapeutic potential of enteroendocrine hormones. These include the Prix Galien Canada for outstanding academic research (2008), the Donald Steiner Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research from the University of Chicago (2007), the Clinical Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society (2009), the Oon International Award and Lecture from Cambridge University (2014), the Rolf Luft Prize from the Karolinska Institute (2017) The Harrington-ASCI Prize for Innovation in Medicine (2017), the EASD Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Excellence in 2019. Drucker is one of 2 individuals worldwide to receive the Claude Bernard Prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (2012), the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement from the American Diabetes Association (2014) the Manpei Suzuki Foundation International Prize for Diabetes (2014) and the Harold Hamm International Prize for Diabetes (2019). In 2020 he received the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for Medicine. Drucker has been elected to the Royal Society (London) and named an officer of the Order of Canada.

 

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