The Diabetes Education Centre (DEC) provides education and support promoting self-management in adults with type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes, and prediabetes.

About Our Team

Southlake's Diabetes Education Centre is supported by:

• Certified Diabetes Educators (Registered Nurses, Registered Dietitians)
• Certified Pump Trainers – specialists in insulin pump therapy
• Endocrinologists – doctors who specialize in diabetes
• Psychiatrist
• Exercise Therapists
• Social Worker

Our expert teams work together to provide individualized care to patients living with diabetes.

As part of a teaching hospital, we facilitate student placements, volunteers, job shadowing and conduct research.

• Individual and group sessions for type 1, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. Click here for more information on group sessions
• Diabetes care during pregnancy
• Urgent clinic - an opportunity for patients to meet with an endocrinologist for assessment of urgent diabetes care needs (a physician's referral is required)
• Insulin therapy initiation and adjustment (with referring physician orders)
• Insulin pump therapy
• Continuous blood glucose monitoring – training and support for patients using insulin pump therapy
• Social work appointments
• Psychiatrist appointments
• RN Health Coach – home support for interested patients
• Weight management workshops
• Exercise and resistance training workshops
• "Taking Control of Smoking" workshops

Services are offered in English, Chinese, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Mandarin.

Group Educational Sessions

We offer a variety of diabetes-related group sessions at several locations. Click here for more information.

We are currently offering some of our group sessions over the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN).
Click here for more information.

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