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Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Aaron Schimmer

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acute leukemia
  • Apoptosis
  • Blood malignancies
  • Chemical biology
  • Clinical trials
  • drug discovery
  • Hematology
  • High throughput screening
  • Leukemia
  • Mitochondria and metabolism
  • Stem cells

Office: (416) 946-2838
Languages: English
Website
Email: aaron.schimmer@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Abhimanyu Sud

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic pain
  • Meditation
  • Opioids
  • Physician health and wellness

Office: 905-281-9898
Mobile: 416-312-2708
Website
Email: abhimanyu.sud@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Abraham Snaiderman

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotional and behavioral issues following neurological illnesses/injuries
  • Neuropsychiatry of anxiety disorders
  • Neuropsychiatry of brain injury
  • Neuropsychiatry of multiple sclerosis
  • Neuropsychiatry of seizure disorders
  • Neuropsychiatry of stroke
  • Traumatic brain injury

Office: 416-597-3422 Ext. 3769
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: abe.snaiderman@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Adam Pyle

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Emergency medicine
  • Global health
  • Medical education
  • Primary care
  • Sports Medicine

Office: N/A
Email: adam.pyle@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Adelle Atkinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical immunology and allergy

Office: 416-813-7654 Ext. 228349
Website
Email: adelle.atkinson@sickkids.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Adrienne K. Chan

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical management of Ebola Virus Disease and COVID-19
  • Global health
  • HIV Treatment and Prevention
  • Infectious diseases
  • Public health

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: adrienne.chan@sunnybrook.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ahmed El-Sohemy

Professor

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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

Alan Cochrane

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cell biology
  • Development and screening
  • DNA-protein
  • Drug discovery, design
  • Gene regulation and expression
  • Genome analysis and sequencing
  • Imaging and microscopy
  • Infectious disease and microbiology
  • Protein-protein
  • Proteomics and proteins
  • RNA-protein interactions
  • Signalling
  • Viruses

Office: 416-978-2500
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: alan.cochrane@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

Allan Covens

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Fertility preserving surgery for cervical cancer
  • Gynecologic cancer
  • Laparoscopic surgery

Office: 416-480-4378
Website
Email: al.covens@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Allan Peterkin

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural history and psychiatry
  • Gay (homosexual) and lesbian health
  • HIV-AIDS psychiatry
  • LGBTQ
  • Medical humanities
  • Medical student and resident health
  • Narrative medicine
  • Physician

Office: 416-586-4800 Ext. 3204
Home: 416-944-2656
Mobile: 416-944-2656
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: allan.peterkin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Allan S. Kaplan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia nervosa)

Office: 416-535-8501 Ext. 4980
Mobile: 416-876-3773
Languages: English
Website
Email: allan.kaplan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ana Andreazza

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Oxidative stress and mental health

Office: (416) 978-6042
Languages: Portuguese,French
Website
Email: ana.andreazza@utoronto.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

Andrew Pinto

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • AI in Health Care
  • COVID-19
  • Equity
  • Family medicine
  • HIV
  • Homelessness
  • Mental illness
  • Prevention
  • Primary care
  • Public health
  • Social determinants of health

Office: 416-864-6060 Ext. 76148
Languages: English
Website
Email: andrew.pinto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Angela Cheung

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cost-effectiveness analyses, medical decision making
  • Functional outcomes, quality of life, and health services research
  • Genetic and clinical risk factors
  • Integrative medicine
  • Long term outcomes of COVID-19
  • Osteoporosis and Musculoskeletal diseases
  • Postmenopausal health (prevention of chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and cancer)
  • Sarcopenia, osteoporosis, frailty

Office: 416-340-4301
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: angela.cheung@uhn.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Anne Dipchand

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Paediatric heart failure
  • Pediatric heart transplantation
  • Stress echocardiography

Office: 416-813-6674
Website
Email: anne.dipchand@sickkids.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ari Zaretsky

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bipolar disorder
  • Cognitive behaviour therapy
  • Depression
  • Medical education
  • Mood disorders
  • Postgraduate psychiatric training

Office: 416-480-4695
Home: 416-780-1351
Mobile: 416-780-1351
Languages: English
Website
Email: ari.zaretsky@sunnybrook.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Artem Babaian

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

    Office: (416) 978 0336
    Website
    Email: a.babaian@utoronto.ca

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Benjamin Goldstein

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Bipolar disorder
    • Cardiovascular risk in youth
    • Connections between psychiatric disorders and physical health conditions

    Office: 416-535-8501 Ext. 39129
    Website
    Email: benjamin.goldstein@sunnybrook.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Bernard Le Foll

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Addiction
    • Behavioural pharmacology
    • Clinical pharmacology
    • Neuropharmacology
    • Pharmacogenetics
    • Psychopharmacology

    Office: N/A
    Languages: French,English
    Email: bernard.lefoll@camh.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Bernard Zinman

    Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Epidemiology and clinical trials related to diabetes
    • Metabolic control/long-term effects of diabetes
    • New therapies for diabetes

    Office: 416-586-8747
    Website
    Email: zinman@lunenfeld.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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