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Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

Avrum Gotlieb

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Academic
  • Blood vessel disease
  • Cardiovascular pathology
  • Heart disease
  • Laboratory medicine policies
  • Medical education

Office: (416) 946-0157
Home: 416-636-5122
Website
Email: avrum.gotlieb@utoronto.ca
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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
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David Irwin

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gene evolution
  • Gene regulation
  • Glucagon
  • Lysozyme
  • Molecular evolution

Office: 416-978-0519
Mobile: 416 230-7544
Website
Email: david.irwin@utoronto.ca
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Gino Somers

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Medical Leadership
  • Molecular pathology
  • Pediatric oncology/cancer
  • Pediatric pathology
  • Physician Wellness
  • Test development

Office: 416 813 5972
Languages: English
Website
Email: gino.somers@utoronto.ca
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Jagdish Butany

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular pathology
  • Pathology of cardiomyopathies/heart transplantation
  • Pathology of prosthetic heart valves and cardiac devices
  • Vascular disease

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Hindi
Website
Email: jagdish.butany@uhn.ca
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Janice Robertson

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
  • Causes and cures of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Office: 416-946-0435
Email: jan.robertson@utoronto.ca
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Kalman Kovacs

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Endocrine disease
  • Pituitary

Office: 416-360-6060 Ext. 77216
Mobile: 416-751-4021
Languages: English,Hungarian
Website
Email: kovacsk@smh.toronto.on.ca
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Kenneth Pritzker

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomedical applications of fullerenes
  • Biomineralization
  • Connective tissue neoplasia
  • Connective tissues as biomaterials
  • Laboratory diagnostics
  • Laboratory tests to assess cancer and precancer and response to chemotherapy
  • Novel biomaterials
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Pathogenesis of crystal deposits in tissues
  • Pathogenesis of degenerative joint diseases
  • Tissue interactions
  • Ultrasound

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: k.pritzker@utoronto.ca
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Khosrow Adeli

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomarkers of pediatric disease
  • Cholesterol
  • Diabetes
  • Insulin resistance
  • Laboratory biomarkers of pediatric disease
  • Laboratory medicine and clinical laboratory investigations
  • Lipids and lipoproteins
  • Normal values/reference intervals for laboratory tests in children and adolescents
  • Obesity studies in animal models
  • Pediatric laboratory medicine
  • Role of nutrition in obesity and Diabetes (e.g. high fructose diets)

Office: 416-813-8682
Mobile: 416-918-2280
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
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Paul Hamel

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer biology
  • Cell biology
  • Global health
  • Human rights
  • Molecular biology

Office: (416) 978-8741
Mobile: (647) 222-8645
Languages: English
Website
Email: paul.hamel@utoronto.ca
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Reinhold Vieth

Professor Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

  • Biochemical markers of calcium and bone metabolism and osteoporosis
  • Clinical nutrition
  • Role of vitamin D in health and well being
  • safety and efficacy of vitamin D
  • Sunshine or ultraviolet exposure, balancing health and risk
  • Vitamin D in the prevention of osteoporosis and cancer

Office: 416-992-9389
Home: 416-469-4772
Mobile: 416-992-9389
Email: reinhold.vieth@utoronto.ca
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Samira Mubareka

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • COVID-19
  • Infectious disease
  • Influenza virus
  • Medical microbiology
  • Respiratory virus transmission
  • Virology

Office: 416-480-4823
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: samira.mubareka@sunnybrook.ca
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Susan Poutanen

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Clostridium difficile
  • COVID-19 POCT
  • Fecal transplants
  • Medical microbiology
  • Pandemic influenza
  • SARS
  • The assessment of long-term outcomes related to fecal microbiota transplantation as an investigational intervention for varied proposed indications
  • The diagnosis of and preparedness for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
  • The epidemiology and detection of antimicrobial resistance
  • The optimization of microbiology laboratory practices to support antimicrobial stewardship and patient care including the use of automation and artificial intelligence

Office: (416) 586-3139
Languages: English
Website
Email: Susan.Poutanen@sinaihealth.ca
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Tony Mazzulli

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care
  • Bridgepoint Hospital
  • Laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Princess Margaret Hospital (University Health Network)
  • the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Toronto General Hospital (University Health Network)
  • Toronto Grace Health Centre
  • Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
  • Toronto Western Hospital (University Health Network)
  • Trillium Gift of Life Network.
  • Viruses and viral infections

Office: 416-586-4695
Mobile: 647-291-3670
Website
Email: tony.mazzulli@sinaihealthsystem.ca
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