Lori MacCallum is the Sun Life Financial Professor in Wellness and Diabetes Education and Program Director, Knowledge Translation and Optimizing Care Models at the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto. In this role, she leads the development and evaluation of innovative educational programs, designed to empower and support pharmacists across Canada in the care of people with diabetes.
Recognizing the need for pharmacists to play a greater role in the medication management of diabetes patients, she founded the first Diabetes Pharmacists Network, an online community open to all pharmacists and pharmacy students across Canada interested in improving care for people with diabetes. She is the editor of the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre Guidebook on Diabetes Management and regularly lectures at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. In addition, she offers an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience rotation focusing on knowledge translation.
MacCallum is a co-investigator with Diabetes Action Canada and the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network and is an affiliate scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. Her research interests include medication management in diabetes and the role of pharmacists in diabetes care. She is passionate about the development and implementation of best practices and is a co-author of the 2018, 2013 and 2008 Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines, as well as an advisory member for the Type 2 Diabetes Quality Standards in Ontario. She has practiced in many aspects of pharmacy and is a Certified Diabetes Educator. She has recently been appointed to the Board of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy.
Selected Publications
MacCallum L, Mathers A, Kellar J, Rousse-Grossman J, Moore J, Lewis GF, Dolovich L. Pharmacists report lack of reinforcement and the work environment as the biggest barriers to routine monitoring and follow-up for people with diabetes: a Survey of community pharmacists. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. Available online 9 April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.004
MacCallum L, Senior P. Safe use of metformin in adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease: lower dosages and sick-day education are essential. Can J Diabetes. 2019;43(1):76-80.
Lipscombe L, Booth G, Butalia S, Dasgupta K, Eurich DT, Goldenberg R, Khan N, MacCallum L, et al. Diabetes Canada 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada: pharmacologic glycemic management of type 2 diabetes in adults. Can J Diabetes. 2018;42:S88-S103.
MacCallum L, Lewis G. Creation of a Diabetes Pharmacists Network in Canada. Can J Diabetes. 2017;41(6):571-575.
MacCallum L, Consiglio G, MacKeigan L, Dolovich L. Uptake of community pharmacist delivered MedsCheck Diabetes medication review service in Ontario between 2010 and 2014. Can J Diabetes. 2017;41(3):253-8.