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Membership

Eligibility

Membership is open to individuals involved in full and part-time diabetes research, education, and patient care and employed at the University of Toronto or its affiliated institutions. (E.g. scientists, physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, and other allied health care professionals.) Affiliated institutions include:

Fully Affiliated Institutions

  • Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
  • Bloorview Kids Rehab
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Hospital for Sick Children
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
  • St. Michael's Hospital
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
  • Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
  • University Health Network (i.e. Toronto General, Toronto Western, and Princess Margaret hospital sites)
  • Women's College Hospital

Community-Affiliated Institutions

  • Bridgepoint Health
  • Credit Valley Hospital
  • George Hull Centre for Children and Families
  • Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
  • Humber River Regional Hospital
  • North York General Hospital
  • Providence Healthcare
  • Scarborough Hospital
  • St. John's Rehabilitation Hospital
  • St. Joseph's Health Centre
  • Surrey Place Centre
  • Toronto East General Hospital
  • Trillium Health Centre
  • West Park Healthcare Centre

Postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, research associates and technicians are not eligible for BBDC membership, however, they are welcome to join our e-mail distribution list (see below) to receive announcements regarding the Centre's programs and activities.

Benefits of membership

  • Membership with the BBDC is free and allows individuals to become eligible to apply for the Centre's various funding programs. (Note: Not all BBDC members are eligible to apply for all BBDC programs. For example, the Archie Sopman program is only open to those employed at the University Health Network. Specific eligibility requirements are outlined for each funding program.)
  • Each member's diabetes-related activities and contact information are posted on the BBDC's website which enables local and foreign trainees to locate potential supervisors at the University, and helps facilitate the development of collaborative diabetes-related activities.
  • Membership enables individuals to attend the BBDC's Annual Scientific Day and other events which may be open to BBDC members and their trainees only.
  • Members are automatically added to the BBDC's E-mail distribution list (see below). Therefore, they will never miss announcements regarding the Centre's educational activities, seminars, or funding programs and application deadline dates.

How to register your free membership

To request free membership, interested individuals should contact the BBDC by e-mail at diabetes.bbdc@utoronto.ca with the following information:

  1. Your name, complete mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail address. Links to other websites where your profile appears may also be provided.
  2. University of Toronto faculty: Please provide your University departmental affiliation, faculty appointment(s) held, and hospital appointment(s) if applicable.
    Allied health care professionals: Please provide your U of T hospital affiliation and professional title(s).
  3. Provide a brief description of your diabetes-related activities (research, clinical, or educational)

The information you provide will be posted on the BBDC's website and all members are automatically added to our e-mail distribution list (see below).

Maintaining membership status

All members are required to provide annual updates for the BBDC's website each January upon request. Provision of both items below are a pre-requisite for maintaining eligibility for BBDC membership and funding. Updates include:

  1. Annual diabetes research highlights. BBDC members who are involved in research must forward one or two brief descriptions of their diabetes research carried out, and if applicable, published during each calendar year for the website section Research At The University.
  2. Member profile and contact information. Members are required to keep their contact information and description of their diabetes-related activities current for the website section Research At The University.

Join our e-mail distribution list

The BBDC sends all of its correspondence by e-mail. Our members and others who join our e-mail distribution list will receive correspondence such as BBDC Seminar notices; BBDC funding program announcements; our quarterly newsletter; announcements of upcoming BBDC events; and all other announcements regarding the Centre's activities. Anyone with an interest in diabetes is welcome to join our e-mail distribution list.

All e-mail addresses are kept confidential and we do not share our e-mail list with anyone. If you wish to be added to this list, send an e-mail to diabetes.bbdc@utoronto.ca. Please note that we only e-mail BBDC-related announcements. We can, however, post other diabetes-related event notices on the BBDC's bulletin board upon request.