Dr. Phil Hardin

Specialties: Endocrinology

About The Speaker

Dr. Hardin received his MD at the University of Alberta in 1978, following which he did an internship and residency in Internal Medicine also at the University of Alberta. He initially opened practice in Calgary in 1983, and stayed there for 8 years, where his interest in diabetes grew to be an obsession. He co-founded the Intensive Insulin Program at the Calgary General Hospital. His interest in Macrovascular disease also grew and he was an active member of Northern and Southern Alberta Cardiac Rehabilitation programs from 1983 through 2004. In 1991, he came to Edmonton to be medical director of the Diabetes Education Centre at the Misericordia hospital, where he stayed for another 6 years, before forming his own West Edmonton Diabetes Centre. He is now a member of the Links clinic. He is a member of several organizations, including the Canadian Diabetes Association, The American Diabetes Association, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and American Heart Association. He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the division of endocrinology, University of Alberta. He is on several regional, national and international advisory boards. His main interest is diabetes as a risk factor for macrovascular disease.