Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Divisions of Internal Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Endocrinology and Metabolism, McGill University

Medicine, Diabetes, Diabetes management, Social determinants of Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Diabetes and pregnancy, Type 1 Diabetes and youth, Peer support for Type 1 Diabetes

Media

Dr Kaberi Dasgupta's message to CORE - August 2018

Dr. Kaberi Dasgupta delivers a message to the staff, students and investigators at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

Gestational diabetes in the mother increases Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes risks for the whole family

Pregnancy-related conditions taken together leave moms – and dads – at risk

Biography

Kaberi Dasgupta, a physician and researcher, is Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University and Director of the Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Her studies focus on the prevention and management of diabetes and its related complications. In collaboration with her multidisciplinary team, including patient partners, she develops and tests strategies to enhance self-management support. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has received research grants as principal investigator from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Lawson Foundation, the Medavie Foundation, and Diabetes Canada. She was a recipient of a CIHR New Investigator award and has been an FRQS clinician scholar from the junior through senior levels. Her students at the MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral levels have held scholarships from CIHR, Diabetes Canada, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, and the FRQS. Some are now Assistant Professors with their own research programs at universities in Canada and the United States.

Expertise

  • Medicine
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetes management
  • Social determinants of Diabetes
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Diabetes and pregnancy
  • Type 1 Diabetes and youth
  • Peer support for Type 1 Diabetes