About Frances Desjarlais Frances Desjarlais is a registered nurse from the Swan Lake First Nation who has worked on diabetes initiatives in First Nations communities for most of her career. Books by Frances Desjarlais Diagnosing the Legacy The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth by (author) Larry Krotz foreword by Frances Desjarlais afterword by Heather Dean, Jonathan McGavock, Michael Moffatt & Elizabeth Sellers