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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
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Naomi Steenhof

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic pain
  • Geriatrics
  • Opioids
  • Pharmacy practice
  • Teaching and learning in health professions

Office: 416-978-2341
Languages: English
Website
Email: naomi.steenhof@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Suze G. Berkhout

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Coping in the face of uncertainty
  • Emotional challenges in serious illness and solid organ transplantation
  • Ethical issues relating to MAiD for sole underlying condition of mental disorder
  • Managing stress and anxiety
  • Mental health care for healthcare workers, burnout
  • Placebo / Nocebo effects
  • Social impacts of technology in health (especially mental health)
  • Treatment refractory mental health experiences
  • Using arts in health

Office: 416-340-3747, 416-340-3762
Languages: English
Website
Email: suze.berkhout@mail.utoronto.ca
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