Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Bonnie Kirsh

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Areas of Expertise

• Advocacy
• Housing and Homelessness
• Stigma Reduction
• Student mental health
• Workplace mental health

Office: 416-978-4647
Website
Email: bonnie.kirsh@utoronto.ca
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Boris Steipe

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biochemistry

Areas of Expertise

• Bioinformatics
• Computational biology
• Molecular biology
• Protein engineering

Office: 416-946-7741
Home: 416-534-7803
Mobile: 416-534-7803
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: boris.steipe@utoronto.ca
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Brendan Frey

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Computer Science
  • Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Centres
  • Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Science
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Autoimmune diseases
• Bayesian networks
• Breast cancer
• Colorectal cancer
• Computational biology
• Computational medicine
• deep learning
• Exome
• Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
• Genetics of cancer
• Genome
• Genomics
• Machine learning
• Neural networks
• Pancreatic cancer
• Parkinson's
• spinal muscular atrophy
• Whole genome sequence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
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Brian Cuthbertson

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Areas of Expertise

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

Brian Murray

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Neurological aspects of sleep medicine
• Sleep

Office: 416-480-6100 Ext. 2461
Languages: English
Website
Email: brian.murray@utoronto.ca
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Brian Schwartz

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical public health
• Core competencies for and roles of health professionals in emergency management
• Core competencies for health professionals in identifying and managing patients affected by domestic violence
• Critical Incident Stress in health responders
• Health disaster and emergency management
• Mass gatherings preparedness and response
• Responding to the opioid epidemic, a public health emergency
• Risk Assessment and Communication (environmental and other emergencies)
• Validation of paramedic and firefighter first responder practice through evidence and outcomes-based research

Office: 647-260-7181
Mobile: 647-260-7181
Languages: English
Website
Email: brian.schwartz.a@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
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Catherine Birt

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Glaucoma

Office: 416-480-5882
Website
Email: c.birt@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Coolens

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Radiation Oncology

Areas of Expertise

• Medical imaging
• Radiation therapy
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Office: (416) 496-4501 Ext. 5011
Languages: English
Website
Email: catherine.coolens@rmp.uhn.on.ca
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Christine Derzko

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Areas of Expertise

• Breasts and hormones
• Gynecological effects of long term soy
• Hormonal therapies
• Hormonal therapy including contraception, menopause
• Management of gynecological and endocrinological consequences
• Menopause
• Non-hormonal and hormonal management
• Postmenopausal management of the older woman
• Premature menopause
• Premature ovarian insufficiency
• Premenopausal osteoporosis
• Prevention & treatment of osteoporosis on women
• Reproductive endocrinology
• Sexual dysfunction
• Vitamin D and pregnancy

Office: 416-866-7400,
Home: 416-444-2080
Mobile: 416-444-2080
Languages: Polish,Ukrainian
Website
Email: christine.derzko@utoronto.ca
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Cindi Morshead

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Division of Anatomy
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Areas of Expertise

• Neural stem cells
• Regenerative medicine

Office: N/A
Mobile: (416) 946-5575
Website
Email: cindi.morshead@utoronto.ca
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Claude Tousignant

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: 416-864-5071
Languages: French
Email: cp.tousignant@utoronto.ca
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Claude Tousignant

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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

Clifford H. Posel

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

• Assertive community treatment
• Mobile crisis

Office: 416-480-6100
Languages: English
Website
Email: cliff.posel@sunnybrook.ca
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Clyde Matava

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Education
• Quality improvement

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

Conor McDonnell

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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
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Darlene Reid

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Physical Therapy

Areas of Expertise

• Cool devices to evaluate how much muscle recruited during physical activity and signs that it is failing.
• Dual task performance in people with COPD
• Exercise for people who are less fit
• Exercise physiology
• Hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation during hand grip exercise in people with mitochondrial disease
• How muscle responds to exercise and is slow to respond or fails to respond when older or if suffering from a chronic disease
• Image analysis of CT images performed to evaluate thoracic spine and rib cage abnormalities that contribute to pain in people living with COPD
• Musculoskeletal biology and physiology
• Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) performed during loaded breathing in healthy men
• Reconstruction of 3D images from MRIs in order to evaluate regional thigh muscle atrophy in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Tissue deoxygenation during inspiratory threshold loading and biceps loading in people with COPD
• Why exercise is an important investment for life

Office: (416) 978-0301
Mobile: (647) 919-0273
Website
Email: darlene.reid@utoronto.ca
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David Irwin

Professor

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

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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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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David Juurlink

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Drug safety
• Epidemiology of adverse drug events
• Poisoning
• Suicide

Office: (416) 480-4835
Languages: English
Website
Email: david.juurlink@ices.on.ca
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David White

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Community-based research
• Education Research
• Family medicine
• Health Informatics
• Health promotion
• Health service delivery
• Illness prevention
• Leadership Development
• Lessons learned from SARS
• Quality improvement
• Quality of Life/Satisfaction
• Screening

Office: N/A
Website
Email: david.white@utoronto.ca
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David Wong

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Diabetic retinopathy
• Macular degeneration
• Ocular trauma
• Retinal detachment
• Vitreoretinal surgery

Office: 416-867-3670
Website
Email: wongd@smh.toronto.on.ca
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Deirdre R. Dawson

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

Areas of Expertise

• Acquired brain injury, cognition and everyday life
• Aging; cognition & daily life
• Cognitive rehabilitation
• Multiple Errands Test

Office: (416) 785-2500 Ext. 2136
Website
Email: d.dawson@utoronto.ca
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Dennis Scolnik

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Paediatrics

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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Derek Tsang

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Radiation Oncology

Areas of Expertise

• Benign and malignant brain tumours
• Childhood cancer
• Pediatric cancer
• Proton therapy for cancer
• Radiation treatment

Office: 416-946-2121
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: dtsang.tsang@utoronto.ca
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Diane Wherrett

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Paediatrics

Areas of Expertise

• Pediatric endocrinology
• Type 1 diabetes and prevention

Office: 416-813-8159
Email: diane.wherrett@sickkids.ca
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Dimitrios J. Anastakis

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Surgery

Areas of Expertise

• Acquisition of technical skills in surgery and clinical outcomes following peripheral nerve surgery
• Hand surgery and reconstruction
• Peripheral nerve and brachial plexus surgery

Office: 416-946-7903
Languages: English,French,Greek, Modern (1453-)
Website
Email: dimitri.anastakis@utoronto.ca
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Dina Kulik

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Paediatrics

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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Donald Redelmeier

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical economics
• Clinical effectiveness
• Health services delivery
• Impaired driving
• Medical decision science
• Motor vehicle trauma
• Pre-hospital/emergency care
• Public and population health

Office: 416-480-6999
Website
Email: dar@ices.on.ca
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Donna Stewart

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

• International health
• Intersection of physical and mental health
• Intimate partner violence
• MAID (medical assistance in dying)
• Psychological aspects of illness and pregnancy
• Psychopharmacology for depression
• Women's health and mental health
• Women's health policy

Office: 14163403846
Home: 416-924-1779
Email: donna.stewart@utoronto.ca
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