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Baher Abdulhai

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced traffic management
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) based street and freeway traffic control
  • Congestion management
  • Dynamic road pricing
  • Dynamic transportation networks
  • Emergency evacuation optimization
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Modelling and simulation of large scale dynamic transportation networks
  • Open transportation services innovation and network enabled ITS
  • Pervasive and mobile ITS
  • Smart cities under automated and transformative transportation systems
  • Traveller information systems

Office: N/A
Website
Email: baher.abdulhai@utoronto.ca
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Barbara Brophey

Senior Athletics Instructor, Gymnastics, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Coach, Gymnastics

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching gymnastics techniques and theory
  • Training children and youth in gymnastics

Office: 416-978-7381
Email: barb.brophey@utoronto.ca
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Barrie Bennett

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Classroom management and discipline
  • Design of learning environments to meet diverse learner needs
  • Educational change (local)
  • Teacher's self assessment

Office: 416-978-0233
Email: b.bennett@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arctic and Inuit health
  • COVID response
  • Global health
  • Global health ethics
  • India COVID-19 crisis
  • Pandemic influenza
  • Primary care
  • Public health
  • Public health education
  • Public health ethics
  • Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
  • Tobacco control
  • Vaccinology

Office: 647-328-5567
Languages: English
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Barry Sessle

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Oral physiology
  • Orofacial neuromuscular functions
  • Orofacial pain

Office: (416) 946-3742
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: barry.sessle@dentistry.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bart Testa

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Censorship and sexual issues in media
  • Chinese and Hong Kong and Taiwan films
  • Cinema
  • Film and television, issues touching on
  • Film-industry matters
  • Religious
  • Science fiction films

Office: 416-978-8574
Mobile: 416-537-0789
Website
Email: bart.testa@utoronto.ca

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corruption
  • Police
  • Policing
  • Political-legal ethnography
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • State violence
  • Veterans

Office: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Beatrix Dart

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Business degrees for women
  • Career advancement for women
  • Career development
  • Diversity
  • Executive women
  • Gender and diversity
  • Internationally trained women
  • Professional development for women
  • Strategic growth of businesses
  • Women and leadership
  • Women in business
  • Women on boards

Office: 416-946-7496
Languages: German,English
Website
Email: bdart@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Belinda Wang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital systems
  • Electronic circuits

Office: 416-978-5543
Languages: Mandarin; some Cantonese
Website
Email: belinda.wang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Benjamin Goldstein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bipolar disorder
  • Cardiovascular risk in youth
  • Connections between psychiatric disorders and physical health conditions

Office: 416-535-8501 Ext. 39129
Website
Email: benjamin.goldstein@sunnybrook.ca
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Bernard Dickens

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Abortion rights
  • Bioethics
  • Health policy
  • Medical and health law
  • Medical ethics

Office: 416-978-4849
Home: 416-967-0687
Mobile: 416-967-0687
Website
Email: bernard.dickens@utoronto.ca
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Bernard Le Foll

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Addiction
  • Behavioural pharmacology
  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Psychopharmacology

Office: N/A
Languages: French,English
Email: bernard.lefoll@camh.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bernard Zinman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Epidemiology and clinical trials related to diabetes
  • Metabolic control/long-term effects of diabetes
  • New therapies for diabetes

Office: 416-586-8747
Website
Email: zinman@lunenfeld.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beth A. Fischer

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Cold War
  • International security
  • US foreign policy
  • US politics
  • US-Russian relations

Office: 416-978-5649
Home: 416-698-9415
Website
Email: beth.fischer@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beth Ali

Executive Director, Athletics and Co-Curricular Physical Activity, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

  • Equity matters pertaining to sport and physical activity
  • High Performance Sport Relationship Management – provincial and national
  • Sport and Recreation facilities and services
  • U of T’s varsity sports model
  • University Sport and Recreation programming
  • University-level sports
  • USPORTS and OUA guidelines, policies and regulations
  • Women in coaching
  • Women in university sport

Office: 416-978-7379
Email: beth.ali@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beth Savan

Senior Lecturer Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
  • Institutional policy on sustainability
  • Sustainability

Office: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bettina Basrani

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Endodontics

Office: 416-864-8176
Website
Email: bettina.basrani@dentistry.utoronto.ca

Beverley Orser

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anesthetics
  • Cognitive deficits
  • Delirium
  • Electrophysiology
  • Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter receptors
  • Neuroscience
  • Patient safety

Office: 416-480-4864
Languages: English
Website
Email: beverley.orser@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beyhan Farhadi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical policy sociology
  • Social and cultural geography
  • Surveillance studies

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: beyhan.farhadi@utoronto.ca

Bharati Bapat

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer genetics
  • Epigenetics
  • Gastrointestinal cancers
  • Genitourinary cancers
  • Molecular diagnostics of cancer predisposition

Office: 416-586-4800 Ext. 5175
Languages: English,Hindi,Marathi
Website
Email: bapat@lunenfeld.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Birsen Donmez

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Automated vehicles
  • Driver distraction
  • Driver safety
  • Driving automation
  • Human technology interaction
  • In-vehicle technologies

Office: 416-978-7399
Languages: Turkish
Website
Email: birsen.donmez@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Blake Woodside

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Couples therapy
  • Eating disorders (family and genetic)
  • Family therapy
  • Males and eating disorders.
  • Patterns in practice in psychiatry
  • Psychiatric genetics

Office: 416-904-2909
Home: 416-222-2904
Mobile: 416-222-2904
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: b.woodside@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bojana Stefanovic

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Brain Function Imaging
  • Functional MRI
  • Neurovascular unit
  • Stroke recovery
  • Traumatic brain injury imaging
  • Two photon fluorescence microscopy

Office: (416) 480-5726
Website
Email: bojana.stefanovic@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie Erickson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Inequality
  • Social capital and networks

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ericson@chass.utoronto.ca

Bonnie Kirsh

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Advocacy
  • Housing and Homelessness
  • Stigma Reduction
  • Student mental health
  • Workplace mental health

Office: 416-978-4647
Website
Email: bonnie.kirsh@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie McElhinny

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critiques of Settler-Colonialism
  • Great Lakes
  • Language politics
  • Water and environmental justice

Office: +1 (416) 978-3297
Languages: English
Website
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Boris Steipe

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Molecular biology
  • Protein engineering

Office: 416-946-7741
Home: 416-534-7803
Mobile: 416-534-7803
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: boris.steipe@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Brenda Cossman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Censorship
  • Family law
  • Feminism
  • Gay and lesbian legal issues
  • Gender and the law
  • Gender equality
  • Legal regulation of adult relationships
  • LGBTQ
  • Pornography
  • Same sex couples
  • Same sex marriage
  • Sexuality and the law
  • Women and the law

Office: 416-978-8103
Mobile: 416-537-9184
Website
Email: b.cossman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Brendan Frey

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brendan Frey

Areas of Expertise

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Bayesian networks
  • Breast cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Computational biology
  • Computational medicine
  • deep learning
  • Exome
  • Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
  • Genetics of cancer
  • Genome
  • Genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Neural networks
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Parkinson's
  • spinal muscular atrophy
  • Whole genome sequence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Brian Baigrie

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural impacts of health care policy
  • Objectivity
  • Scientific evidence
  • Scientific expertise
  • Theory of evidence for biomedicine

Office: +1 6473826460
Website
Email: brian.baigrie@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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