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Paediatrics

Adelle Atkinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical immunology and allergy

Office: 416-813-7654 Ext. 228349
Website
Email: adelle.atkinson@sickkids.ca
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Anna Banerji

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aboriginal Health (especially Inuit)
  • Adoption Medicine
  • Advocacy and Human Rights
  • Child health
  • Communicable Diseases
  • International health
  • Public health
  • Refugee & Migration Health
  • Tropical medicine

Office: 416-978-8319
Website
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
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Anne Dipchand

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Paediatric heart failure
  • Pediatric heart transplantation
  • Stress echocardiography

Office: 416-813-6674
Website
Email: anne.dipchand@sickkids.ca
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Dennis Scolnik

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Pediatric emergency medicine

Office: N/A
Languages: Hebrew
Website
Email: dennis.scolnik@utoronto.ca
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Diane Wherrett

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Pediatric endocrinology
  • Type 1 diabetes and prevention

Office: 416-813-8159
Email: diane.wherrett@sickkids.ca
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Dina Kulik

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Areas of Expertise

  • Child and family health
  • E-Health
  • Pediatric emergency medicine
  • Pediatric nutrition
  • Preventative medicine

Office: 647-504-3462
Mobile: 647-504-3462
Website
Email: drdinakulik@gmail.com
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Eric Bouffet

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical trials
  • E-Health
  • Haematology/Oncology
  • Pediatric brain tumours
  • Pediatric palliative care

Office: 416-813-7457
Mobile: 416-486-9776
Languages: French, Italian
Website
Email: eric.bouffet@sickkids.ca
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Karen Leslie

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adolescent substance abuse

Office: 416-813-6083
Website
Email: karen.leslie@sickkids.ca
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Lee Benson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult congenital heart disease
  • Interventional catheterization in adult congenital heart disease
  • Pediatric cardiology
  • Pediatric cardiomyopathies and heart failure
  • Pediatric interventional cardiac catheterization
  • Pediatric interventional cardiology

Office: 416-813-6141
Languages: English
Website
Email: lee.benson@sickkids.ca
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Michael Dunn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Care of the micro premature infant
  • Family-centered care in neonatology
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) design
  • Nutrition of preterm infants
  • Pulmonary conditions affecting preterm infants
  • Respiratory support for preterm infants

Office: 416-480-6100 Ext. 87777
Website
Email: michael.dunn@sw.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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Norman Rosenblum

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Growth factor signaling
  • Kidney development and maldevelopment
  • Morphogenesis
  • Stem-cell derived organoids

Office: 416-813-5667
Home: 905-886-9773
Mobile: 905-886-9773
Languages: English
Website
Email: norman.rosenblum@sickkids.ca
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Sheila Weitzman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis and other histiocytic disorders
  • Pediatric leukemia
  • Pediatric non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Office: 416-813-7556
Website
Email: sheila.weitzman@sickkids.ca
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Shelly Weiss

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Epilepsy and epilepsy surgery in children
  • Sleep disorders in children

Office: 416-813-6332
Website
Email: shelly.weiss@sickkids.ca
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