Ilana Halperin

Dr. Ilana Halperin is a full time staff physician and assistant professor in the job description of Clinician in Quality and Innovation. Dr. Halperin has a BSc for McGill University, an MD from the University of Western Ontario; she completed internal medicine and endocrinology training at the University of Toronto and an MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

As the Co-Principal Investigator on a multi-site project to develop a balanced scorecard for diabetes care, she has established quality indicators for ambulatory diabetes programs that can be continuously measured to drive quality improvement. To enable a standardized approach to monitor and improve care provided to our patients, she has led the implementation and optimization of electronic medical records in the Sunnybrook Endocrine Division and in the Diabetes in Pregnancy clinic. As the medical director of the Sunnybrook Diabetes in Pregnancy program, she is working to improve the experience and outcomes for women with diabetes from pregnancy to post partum. As the chair of the Sunnybrook Diabetes Inpatient Committee, she leads a group of professionals from diverse clinical backgrounds to improve diabetes-related outcomes and patient experience while in hospital.