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Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Blake Woodside

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Couples therapy
  • Eating disorders (family and genetic)
  • Family therapy
  • Males and eating disorders.
  • Patterns in practice in psychiatry
  • Psychiatric genetics

Office: 416-904-2909
Home: 416-222-2904
Mobile: 416-222-2904
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: b.woodside@utoronto.ca
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Bojana Stefanovic

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Brain Function Imaging
  • Functional MRI
  • Neurovascular unit
  • Stroke recovery
  • Traumatic brain injury imaging
  • Two photon fluorescence microscopy

Office: (416) 480-5726
Website
Email: bojana.stefanovic@utoronto.ca
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Bonnie Kirsh

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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

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

Brendan Frey

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Anesthesiology
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Critical care medicine
  • Health administration
  • Novel randomized trial methods
  • Optimize care and outcome
  • Research methods

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

Brian Murray

Professor

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

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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Carlos Alberto Ibarra Moreno

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical trials
  • Education and Mentorship
  • Malignant Hyperthermia (MH)
  • Metabolomic Profiling
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Quality Improvement in Anesthesia

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American,Italian,Japanese,Hebrew
Website
Email: carlos.ibarra@utoronto.ca

Carol Greenwood

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Glaucoma

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

Professor

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

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

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

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

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Education
  • Quality improvement

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

Conor McDonnell

Associate Professor

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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Daniel Drucker

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular Metabolism & Nutrition

Office: (416) 361-2661
Website
Email: d.drucker@utoronto.ca

Danyaal Raza

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health policy
  • Healthcare Policy
  • Primary care
  • Privatization

Office: N/A
Website
Email: danyaal.raza@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Darlene Reid

Professor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Derek van der Kooy

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behaviour and mental illness
  • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • C. elegans
  • Developmental biology
  • Disease models
  • Drosophila
  • Evolution and phylogenetics
  • Imaging and microscopy
  • Neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment
  • Neuroscience
  • Optogenetics
  • Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering
  • Single cell and spatial biology
  • Stem cell biology

Office: 416-978-1960
Languages: English
Website
Email: derek.van.der.kooy@utoronto.ca