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Dr. Simpson is a New Investigator supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Mr. Eurich holds a Doctoral Research award with CIHR and a Full-time Studentship in Health Research with the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR). Dr. Majumdar is a New Investigator supported by CIHR and a Population Health Investigator with AHFMR. Dr. Tsuyuki holds the Merck Frosst Chair in Patient Health Management from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. Dr. Johnson holds a Canada Research Chair in Diabetes Health Outcomes, is a Health Scholar supported by AHFMR, and is Chair of a New Emerging Team (NET) grant to the Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes (ACHORD). The ACHORD NET grant is sponsored by the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, and the CIHR (Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes; and, Circulatory and Respiratory Health).