SARA J. MELTZER MD, FRCPC, FACP is an associate professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University. She has practiced endocrinology for more than twenty-five years at the McGill University Health Centre-Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. She chaired the Clinical and Scientific Section of the Canadian Diabetes Association and the initial 1998 CDA Guidelines. She received the 1999 Frederick G. Banting Award and the 2001 Gerry Wong Award for helping people with diabetes.