Dr. Peter Senior is the Director of the Alberta Diabetes Institute, the Charles A Allard Chair in Diabetes Research and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. He has clinical appointments as the Medical Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program and staff endocrinologist for Alberta Health Services, in Edmonton, Canada. He completed his specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the UK, where he received his PhD in 2002. His clinical and research interests focus on type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia, diabetic kidney disease and islet transplantation. He has published more than 200 scientific articles. He also received the Gerald Wong Service Award from Diabetes Canada in 2020 for “diabetes research, clinical care, the organization and diabetes advocacy”.