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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Ahtsham Niazi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acute pain
  • Education & Simulation
  • Ultrasound

Office: 416-480-4684
Languages: English,Urdu
Website
Email: ahtsham.niazi@utoronto.ca

Akash Goel

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Opioid Replacement Therapies (i.e., buprenorphine, methadone)
  • Perioperative Management of Substance Use Disorders
  • Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy for chronic neuropathic pain
  • Spinal cord stimulation and other neuromodulation therapies for chronic pain

Office: (416) 864-5071
Languages: English,French,Hindi
Website
Email: akash.goel@mail.utoronto.ca

Alison Macarthur

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Maternal cardiovascular disease
  • Obstetric anesthesia research
  • Population health and delivery systems
  • Postpartum clinical care

Office: 416-586-5270
Home: 416-932-9893
Mobile: 416-932-9893
Languages: French,English
Website
Email: alison.macarthur@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Anahi Perlas

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Enhancement of patient safety by developing and validating perioperative ultrasound applications
  • July-2023-Research Commendation Award, Merit Award Competition,
  • June 2023 Ian White Patient Safety Award-Canadian Anesthesiologists Society. ($500)
  • March 2023 Jean Davey Honorary Fund Award.
  • May 2020 Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine journal

Office: 416-603-5118
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: anahi.perlas@uhn.ca

Andrew Baker

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Traumatic brain injury

Office: (416) 864-5559
Languages: English
Website
Email: andrew.baker@unityhealth.to

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

Brian Cuthbertson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anesthesiology
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Critical care medicine
  • Health administration
  • Novel randomized trial methods
  • Optimize care and outcome
  • Research methods

Office: (416) 480-6100 Ext. 2895
Languages: English
Website
Email: brian.cuthbertson@sunnybrook.ca

Carlos Alberto Ibarra Moreno

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical trials
  • Education and Mentorship
  • Malignant Hyperthermia (MH)
  • Metabolomic Profiling
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Quality Improvement in Anesthesia

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American,Italian,Japanese,Hebrew
Website
Email: carlos.ibarra@utoronto.ca

Claude Tousignant

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiac critical care
  • Cardiovascular anesthesia
  • Cardiovascular physiology
  • Emergency care and critical care
  • Transesophageal echocardiography

Office: (416) 864-5071
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: cp.tousignant@utoronto.ca

Clyde Matava

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education
  • Quality improvement

Office: (416) 813-7445
Languages: English
Website
Email: clyde.matava@sickkids.ca

Conor McDonnell

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic pain
  • Medication safety
  • Opioid safety and stewardship
  • Pediatric anesthesia
  • Quality improvement
  • Tendold Drug Error

Office: (416) 813-7500 Ext. 2687
Languages: English
Website
Email: conor.mcdonnell@sickkids.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Doreen Yee

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anesthesia care
  • Trauma Resuscitation and Care

Office: 416-480-4796
Home: 416-445-6067
Mobile: 416-726-2700
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: d.yee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dylan Bould

Professor

Areas of Expertise

    Office: 416-813-7445.
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: dylan.bould@utoronto.ca

    Fahad Alam

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Clinical assessment,
    • Crisis resource management,
    • Implementation of technology in medical education,
    • Simulation-based education,
    • Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in medical training,

    Office: N/A
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: fahad.alam@sunnybrook.ca

    Gianni Lorello

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Competency By Design
    • Critical social theory
    • Equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice
    • Medical education
    • Transfer of Skill & Knowledge

    Office: (416) 603-5118
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: gianni.lorello@uhn.ca

    Hance Clarke

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • evaluating novel analgesic approaches
    • exploring the therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in pain management and neurological disorders
    • improving pain management strategies
    • unravelling the complex factors contributing to chronic pain after surgery

    Office: (416) 340-5164
    Languages: English,French
    Website
    Email: hance.clarke@uhn.ca

    Jason Hayes

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Pediatric anesthesia
    • Perioperative patient management
    • Regional anesthesia

    Office: 416-813-8963
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: jason.hayes@sickkids.ca

    Jason Maynes

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Anesthesia toxicity
    • Drug design
    • Heart failure
    • Protein structure and function

    Office: 416-813-5934
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: jason.maynes@sickkids.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Joseph Arnold Fisher

    Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Developing portable life support systems for field use in disasters
    • Neck collar for prevention of traumatic brain injury
    • Portable pre-hospital treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning

    Office: 416-710-6908
    Website
    Email: joe.fisher@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Justyna Bartoszko

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Coagulopathy and bleeding in cardiac surgery
    • Coagulopathy in the liver transplantation perioperative period
    • Point-of-care transfusion management in liver transplantation
    • Transfusion management in cardiac surgery

    Office: N/A
    Mobile: 416-716-5299
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: j.bartoszko@utoronto.ca

    Matt Kurrek

    Professor

    Matt Kurrek

    Areas of Expertise

    • Benchmarking through data registries
    • Office-based and out-of-hospital anesthesia
    • Peer assessment
    • Quality control and multi-source feedback (MSF)
    • Simulation

    Office: 416-399-7640
    Languages: English,French,German
    Website
    Email: m.kurrek@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Matthew Sheppard

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Medical Education and Administration
    • Pain Medicine and Chronic Pain Management
    • Perinatal and Obstetric Anesthesia

    Office: (416) 586-5270
    Languages: English,French
    Website
    Email: m.sheppard@utoronto.ca

    Natalie Clavel

    Assistant Professor

    Areas of Expertise

      Office: 416-603-5118
      Languages: English,French
      Website
      Email: natalie.clavel@uhn.ca

      Naveed Siddiqui

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Education
      • Perioperative patient safety

      Office: N/A
      Mobile: 416.586.5270
      Languages: English,Hindi,Panjabi; Punjabi,Urdu
      Website
      Email: naveed.siddiqui@uhn.ca

      Neil Goldenberg

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Autoimmunity
      • Macrophage
      • Pulmonary Hypertension
      • Vascular inflammation

      Office: (416) 813-7654 Ext. 309173
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: neil.goldenberg@utoronto.ca

      Patricia Houston

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Cardiovascular anesthesia
      • Critical care
      • Education

      Office: 416-978-6709
      Website
      Email: patricia.houston@utoronto.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

      Ronald George

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Cesarean recovery
      • Obstetric anesthesia
      • Patient centred labor analgesia

      Office: 416-709-5198
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: ron.george@utoronto.ca

      Sabine Nabecker

      Assistant Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Airway Management and Apneic Oxygenation
      • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
      • Medical Education & Simulation
      • Patient well-being and patient safety

      Office: N/A
      Mobile: 437-245-7842
      Languages: English,German
      Website
      Email: sabine.nabecker@mail.utoronto.ca

      Sheila Riazi

      Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Malignant Hyperthermia (MH)
      • Metabolic changes to calcium movement
      • MH genetics and cellular studies
      • MH pathophysiology
      • Non-anesthetic aspect of MH at the cellular level

      Office: 416-603-5118
      Languages: English,Persian
      Website
      Email: sheila.riazi@uhn.ca

      Stephen Brown

      Associate Professor

      Areas of Expertise

      • Anesthesia
      • Pain
      • Pediatric anesthesia
      • Pediatric chronic pain, anesthesia

      Office: (416) 813-7445
      Languages: English
      Website
      Email: stephen.brown@sickkids.ca
      Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online