Valerie Tarasuk

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Food and nutrition
  • Food and poverty
  • Food banks
  • Food fortification in Canada
  • Food insecurity
  • Food policy
  • Nutrition inequities
  • Nutrition labelling

Office: (416) 978-0618
Website
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Vaughn Betz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer aided design software
  • Computer chip design
  • Field programmable gate arrays
  • Hardware acceleration of deep learning
  • Simulation and optimization of photo-dynamic cancer therapy

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-949-3771
Website
Email: vaughn@eecg.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Vicki Zhang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Vicki Zhang

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical pedagogy in financial education
  • Ethics in life and annuity product design and marketing
  • History of US life insurance sector and market since 1960s
  • Internationalization of education (with a focus on China)
  • Narrative-based mathematics education
  • Risk management and life insurance
  • Teaching humanities and ethics as part of financial education
  • Technology and software in life and annuity design and valuation

Office: N/A
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: vickijing.zhang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Victoria Arrandale

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Interventions to reduce occupational exposures
  • Novel methods for exposure assessment
  • Occupational exposure assessment
  • Prevention of occupational disease

Office: N/A
Website
Email: victoria.arrandale@utoronto.ca

Vincent Chan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Evaluation of pharmacological and clinical properties of anesthetic/analgesic agents
  • Methods of teaching regional anesthesia
  • Pain management
  • Regional anesthesia
  • Regional anesthetic techniques and postoperative outcomes
  • Ultrasound imaging for peripheral nerve blocks

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: vincent.chan@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Vinita Arora

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Mental health pharmacotherapy
  • Pharmacy professional practice

Office: 416-978-0187
Languages: English
Website
Email: vinita.arora@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

W Richard Peltier

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Earth Evolution and Climate

Office: 416-978-2938
Languages: English
Website
Email: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

W. Mark Erwin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arthritis
  • Degenerative disc disease
  • Lower back pain
  • Notogen (invention arresting degenerative disc disease)
  • Spine and spinal pain
  • Stem cells
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-603-5800 Ext. 3308
Mobile: 416-721-4834
Languages: English
Website
Email: mark.erwin@utoronto.ca
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Walid Hejazi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural finance
  • Big data
  • Canadian competitiveness
  • Cross-culture management
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Economics of organizations
  • Emerging economies
  • Ethical investing
  • Family-owned businesses
  • Financial economics
  • Financial markets
  • Fiscal policy
  • Foreign direct investment
  • Global economy
  • Globalization
  • Impact investing
  • International trade
  • Islamic finance
  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary policy
  • Outsourcing
  • Productivity
  • Wealth management
  • Women in business
  • Work-life balance

Office: 416-287-7318
Website
Email: hejazi@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Walid Houry

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biophysics
  • Molecular chaperones
  • Protein degredation
  • Protein folding
  • Proteomics

Office: 416-946-7141
Mobile: 416- 841-1205
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: walid.houry@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Walid Saleh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Islam
  • The Middle East

Office: 416-946-3241
Mobile: 647-710-0921
Languages: English,Arabic
Website
Email: walid.saleh@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Walter Callaghan

PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Medical cannabis
  • Military masculinity
  • Military sexual trauma
  • Moral injury
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Shared trauma of civilians
  • Veterans

Office: N/A
Email: w.callaghan@mail.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Walter Wodchis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative effectiveness research
  • Health care finance and economics
  • Health services delivery
  • Health services research
  • Integrated care
  • Long-term care
  • Performance measurement and program evaluation
  • Rehabilitation

Office: (416) 946-7387
Website
Email: walter.wodchis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Wayne Sumner

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Wayne Sumner

Areas of Expertise

  • Freedom of expression (hate speech and pornography)
  • Medical assistance in dying
  • Reproductive issues (abortion)

Office: 416-565-6944
Website
Email: wayne.sumner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Wei Yu

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital subscriber lines (DSL)
  • Information theory
  • Wireless communications

Office: N/A
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: weiyu@comm.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Wendy Wolfman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • General Gynaecology (co-head Gynaecology Guideline Committee for Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada)
  • Menopause
  • Premature ovarian insufficiency

Office: 416-586-4753
Website
Email: wendy.wolfman@utoronto.ca
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Wendy Wong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital activism
  • Emerging technologies/Big Data/AI
  • Global civil society
  • Global governance
  • Human rights
  • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Politics of organization
  • Social movements
  • Tech companies

Office: 416-946-8703
Languages: English
Website
Email: wendyh.wong@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Willi Goetschel

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical theory
  • German Jewish culture
  • Modern German literature and thought

Office: 416-926-2320
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: w.goetschel@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

William Magee

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Quality of Life/Subjective Wellbeing (sociological perspectives)
  • Sociology and Emotion
  • Sociology of Health & Illness

Office: N/A
Website
Email: william.magee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Print/Online

William Navarre

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Bacterial disease
  • E.coli
  • Microbiome
  • Salmonella
  • Staphylococcus Aureus

Office: 416-946-5356
Website
Email: william.navarre@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

William Paris

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Black Political Thought
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Politics

Office: N/A
Languages: French,German
Website
Email: william.paris@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

William Scott Prudham

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental politics
  • Long term agrarian and political economic change in the wine sector, Languedoc (France)
  • Natural resource extraction and natural resource management/policy
  • Political economy and environment
  • Social dimensions of environmental change

Office: 416-978-4975
Website
Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

William Strange

Professor of Business Economics, Rotman School of Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Urban economics and real estate

Office: N/A
Email: william.strange@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Wilson Prichard

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aid reform
  • Comparative politics
  • Foreign assistance
  • Government Revenues
  • International development politics
  • International political economy
  • Natural resources and developing countries
  • Political Foundations of Development
  • State Building and Accountability
  • Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Tax Havens and International Tax Reform
  • Taxation

Office: 416-978-0743
Languages: English,French,Italian
Website
Email: wilson.prichard@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Winston Husbands

Associate Professor, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise

  • Black communities
  • Food security/Food sovereignty
  • Health
  • HIV/AIDS

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-988-1725
Website
Email: winston.husbands@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Xiao Yu (Shirley) Wu

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioreactive nanoparticles for remodeling tumor microenvironment to enhance cancer therapies
  • Blood-brain barrier-penetrating nanotechnology for diagnosis and therapy of brain cancer and CNS diseases
  • Glucose-responsive device and microneedle patch for insulin and glucagon delivery
  • Nanomedicine of synergistic drug combination for enhanced treatment of multidrug resistant and metastatic cancer
  • Numerical simulation and molecular dynamic modeling for rational design of drug delivery systems for small molecules and biologics

Office: 416-978-5272
Languages: English
Website
Email: xywu@phm.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Xiaolin Wei

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Diabetes
  • Health outcome evaluations
  • Implementation science, operations research, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies
  • Primary care
  • Primary care reform and policy evaluation
  • Public health consultant
  • Screening in airports
  • Tuberculosis

Office: (416) 978-2020
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Yashar Ganjali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer networks
  • Internet

Office: 416-978-2952
Website
Email: yganjali@cs.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

York Po-Chee Pei

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetic epidemiology
  • Human molecular genetics
  • Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome
  • IgA nephropathy
  • Polycystic kidney disease

Office: 416-340-4257
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: york.pei@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Young-June Kim

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Dirac Magnons In A Honeycomb Lattice Quantum XY Magnet CoTiO3
  • Is Alpha-RuCl3 A Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid?
  • Magnetic Hamiltonian Of Alpha-RuCl3
  • Strongly Interacting Quasiparticles In A Quantum Magnet
  • Weyl Semimetal Candidate, Pyrochlore Iridates

Office: 416-978-7868
Languages: English,Korean
Website
Email: youngjune.kim@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online