Nutritional Sciences

Ahmed El-Sohemy

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Caffeine
• Coffee
• Genetic testing
• Microbiome
• Nutrigenetics
• Nutrigenomics
• Nutrition
• Personalized nutrition

Office: (416) 946-5776
Mobile: (416) 669-8791
Website
Email: a.el.sohemy@utoronto.ca
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Carol Greenwood

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Nutrition cognition and aging

Office: 416-978-4261
Home: 416-785-2500 ext. 2785
Website
Email: carol.greenwood@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

David Jenkins

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• carbohydrate/fibre metabolism
• Clinical trials
• Diet and cancer
• Diet and disease
• Diet and environmental concerns
• Dietary portfolio for cholesterol lowering
• functional foods and nutraceuticals
• nutrition in diseased populations
• plant proteins and health
• Plant-based diets
• postprandial hypertension

Office: (416) 946-3654
Website
Email: david.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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K. Sandy Pang

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Pharmacology and Toxicology

Areas of Expertise

• Pharmacokinetics

Office: 416-978-6164
Languages: Chinese
Website
Email: ks.pang@utoronto.ca
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Reinhold Vieth

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
  • Nutritional Sciences

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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Valerie Tarasuk

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Food and nutrition
• Food and poverty
• Food banks
• Food fortification in Canada
• Food insecurity
• Food policy
• Nutrition inequities
• Nutrition labelling

Office: (416) 978-0618
Website
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
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