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Institute of Medical Science

Gillian Einstein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • BRCA mutation (breast and ovarian cancer) prophylaxis effects on cognition
  • Cognitive effects of oophorectomy
  • Effects of culture and experience on the nervous system
  • Effects of steroid hormones on mental health
  • Effects of the menstrual cycle on mood and sleep
  • Estrogen and the brain
  • Female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting
  • Gender and health
  • Interactions between sex and gender
  • Sex differences
  • Women's health

Office: 416-978-0896
Website
Email: gillian.einstein@utoronto.ca
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Harvey Moldofsky

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic fatigue
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Primary sleep disorders
  • Sleep and chronobiology
  • Sleep related Medical and Psychiatric Disorders

Office: 416-485-4964
Languages: English
Website
Email: h.moldofsky@utoronto.ca
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Howard Mount

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Graduate training in the Faculty of Medicine
  • Preclinical models of neurodegenerative disease
  • Translational research education

Office: 416-507-6883, 416-946-8286
Languages: English
Website
Email: howard.mount@utoronto.ca
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Jodie Jenkinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Information visualization
  • Perception-based design theory
  • The design and assessment of interactive learning environments

Office: (905) 569-4263
Website
Email: j.jenkinson@utoronto.ca
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Lucy Osborne

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Human genetic disease
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Williams syndrome

Office: (416) 946-5804
Languages: English
Website
Email: lucy.osborne@utoronto.ca
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Molly S Shoichet

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 3D cell culture
  • Drug delivery
  • Hydrogels
  • Polymers for applications in medicine
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Spinal cord injury repair
  • Stem cell stimulation
  • Stem cell transplantation
  • Targeted delivery in cancer
  • Tissue engineering
  • Traumatic injury to the brain (including stroke)

Office: 416-978-1460
Languages: French
Website
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca
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Molly Verrier

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical neurophysiology
  • Development of novel intervention strategies for restorative motor control for posture, mobility and function, and
  • Evaluation of neurotherapeutic techniques and neurorehabilitation service delivery.
  • Health service delivery
  • Physical therapy
  • Rehabilitation informatics
  • Rehabilitation spinal cord injury
  • Utilization of electromyography, kinetic and kinematic analysis for understanding neurological disorders

Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.verrier@utoronto.ca
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Neil Sweezey

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Childhood respiratory illnesses
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Cystic fibrosis - the gender gap
  • Lung development

Office: 416-813-6346 Ext. 7910
Languages: French
Website
Email: neil.sweezey@sickkids.ca
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Nicholas Woolridge

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • COVID-19 โ€“ visualizing the structure and activity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
  • Visual resources in health education
  • Visualizations of the progress of the pandemic in Canada and abroad

Office: N/A
Mobile: (905) 569-4264
Website
Email: n.woolridge@utoronto.ca
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Peggy Margaret A. Richter

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive-behaviour therapy for anxiety
  • Hoarding disorder
  • Neurobiology of OCD and Related Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder)

Office: 416-480-6832
Mobile: 416-729-9169
Languages: English
Website
Email: peggy.richter@sunnybrook.ca
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Susan Tarlo

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Allergy
  • Asthma
  • Asthma and allergy
  • Environmental respiratory effects
  • Occupational lung disease

Office: 416-603-5177
Website
Email: susan.tarlo@utoronto.ca
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Taryn Grieder

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Psychology

Areas of Expertise

  • Addiction
  • Behaviour
  • Learning
  • Neuroscience
  • Stress

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-402-0630
Email: taryn.grieder@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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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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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
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