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Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Karen Abrams

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Areas of Expertise

  • Stalking
  • Women's mental health

Office: 647-933-2445
Mobile: 416-618-7072
Email: karen.abrams@utoronto.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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Katy Kamkar

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Mental Health conditions
  • PTSD and trauma
  • Public safety personnel
  • Resiliency
  • Stress and anxiety and coping
  • Work-life balance
  • Workplace mental health

Office: N/A
Languages: English, French
Website
Email: katykamkar@proton.me

Keith A. Jarvi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetics and Proteomics of male infertility
  • Genetics and proteomics of prostate cancer
  • Genetics and proteomics of testicular cancer
  • Male infertility
  • Prostate cancer
  • Prostatitis
  • Scrotal pain
  • Semen Proteomics
  • Sperm function
  • Testicular cancer

Office: (416) 586-8867
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: keith.jarvi@utoronto.ca
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Kenneth Chapman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • Asthma and COPD management

Office: 416-603-5499
Languages: English
Website
Email: kenneth.chapman@uhn.on.ca
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Kenneth Norwich

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Kenneth Norwich

Areas of Expertise

  • Computers in medicine
  • Hearing
  • Mathematics in medicine and biology
  • Physics in medicine
  • The senses

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: k.norwich@utoronto.ca
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Kenneth Pritzker

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomedical applications of fullerenes
  • Biomineralization
  • Connective tissue neoplasia
  • Connective tissues as biomaterials
  • Laboratory diagnostics
  • Laboratory tests to assess cancer and precancer and response to chemotherapy
  • Novel biomaterials
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Pathogenesis of crystal deposits in tissues
  • Pathogenesis of degenerative joint diseases
  • Tissue interactions
  • Ultrasound

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: k.pritzker@utoronto.ca
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Kevin Reel

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Disability
  • End-of-life care
  • Family perspectives on assisted dying
  • OT roles in advance care planning
  • OT roles in assisted dying
  • Parental perspectives on dating and relationship supports for neurodiverse individuals
  • Professionalization of healthcare ethics practice
  • Sensitivity of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) to diverse gender identities
  • Sexuality and sexual expression

Office: 416-480-6100 Ext. 87105
Website
Email: kevin.reel@utoronto.ca
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Khosrow Adeli

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomarkers of pediatric disease
  • Cholesterol
  • Diabetes
  • Insulin resistance
  • Laboratory biomarkers of pediatric disease
  • Laboratory medicine and clinical laboratory investigations
  • Lipids and lipoproteins
  • Normal values/reference intervals for laboratory tests in children and adolescents
  • Obesity studies in animal models
  • Pediatric laboratory medicine
  • Role of nutrition in obesity and Diabetes (e.g. high fructose diets)

Office: 416-813-8682
Mobile: 416-918-2280
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
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Kristin Musselman

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Functional electrical stimulation
  • Spinal cord injury

Office: (416) 597-3422 Ext. 6190
Website
Email: kristin.musselman@utoronto.ca
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Landon Edgar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Glycocalyx engineering for synthetic immunology
  • Mapping glycan-lectin networks via high-dimensionality single cell analysis
  • Targeted nanoparticle scaffolds for spatial control over effector cell recruitment

Office: (416) 978-2730
Website
Email: landon.edgar@utoronto.ca

Laura Dawson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomarkers for tumor response and normal tissue toxicity in liver cancer SBRT
  • Hepatocellular cancer
  • High precision radiotherapy
  • Image guidance in radiotherapy
  • Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT)
  • Liver cancer radiation therapy
  • Liver metastases
  • Palliative radiation therapy
  • Principal Investigator of a Randomized Phase III Study of Sorafenib versus Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy followed by Sorafenib in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Principal Investigator of a Randomized Phase III Study of Whole Liver Radiation Therapy versus Best Supportive Care for Patients with Painful Liver Cancer

Office: 416-946-2124 Ext. 4483
Languages: English
Website
Email: laura.dawson@rmp.uhn.on.ca
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Laurie Zawertailo

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Tobacco dependence and treatment

Office: (416) 535-8501 Ext. 77422
Website
Email: laurie.zawertailo@camh.ca
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Lawrence Alan Leiter

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Atherosclerosis
  • Clinical trials
  • Diabetes
  • Dietary interventions
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Hypertension
  • Lipids
  • Obesity

Office: (416) 867-7441
Email: lawrence.leiter@utoronto.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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Linna Tam-Seto

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural Competency
  • Family Mental Health
  • Mentorship
  • Military
  • Veterans

Office: (416) 946-4004
Website
Email: linna.tamseto@utoronto.ca

Lori Frappier

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Epstein-Barr virus
  • Herpesviruses
  • Virus-host interactions

Office: 416-946-3501
Email: lori.frappier@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Luc De Nil

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Brain imaging
  • Developmental and acquired stuttering in children and adults
  • Speech and language disorders

Office: 416-978-1789
Languages: Dutch; Flemish,French
Website
Email: luc.denil@utoronto.ca
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Lucy Osborne

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Human genetic disease
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Williams syndrome

Office: (416) 946-5804
Languages: English
Website
Email: lucy.osborne@utoronto.ca
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Mansoor Husain

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiology
  • Diabetes and heart disease
  • Discovery: identifying targets for heart disease therapy
  • Discovery: impact of genetics on heart research
  • Discovery: impact of regenerative medicine/stem cells on heart research
  • Discovery: the molecular bases of cardiovascular diseases
  • Heart failure
  • Nuclear cardiology
  • Obesity and heart disease
  • Treating heart patients

Office: 416-340-3188
Languages: English
Website
Email: mansoor.husain@utoronto.ca
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Mark Berber

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anxiety (social anxiety/obsessive-compulsive disorder/phobias/panic disorder/generalized anxiety)
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Borderline Personality
  • COVID-19
  • Depression

Office: 905-472-5733
Mobile: 416-801-0991
Website
Email: mberber@cnsmedicine.com
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Mark Bernstein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioethics
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Palliative care

Office: 416-603-6499
Mobile: 416-481-7022
Languages: English,French
Email: mark.bernstein@uhn.ca
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Marshall Korenblum

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child/adolescent depression and suicide
  • Child/adolescent psychiatry advocacy
  • Child/adolescent psychiatry professional education
  • Normal/abnormal development in children/adolescents
  • Personality disorders in children/adolescents

Office: 416-924-1164 Ext. 3316
Languages: English
Website
Email: mkorenblum@sickkidscmh.ca
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Martin Yaffe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Breast cancer detection
  • Breast Imaging
  • imaging
  • Mammography screening

Office: (416) 480-5715
Languages: English
Website
Email: martin.yaffe@sri.utoronto.ca
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Mary Gospodarowicz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer staging and prognosis
  • Cancer staging and prognostic factors
  • Clinical trials
  • Global cancer
  • Global cancer control
  • Lymphoma
  • Radiation treatment

Office: 416-946-4421
Mobile: 416-903-0604
Languages: English
Website
Email: mary.gospodarowicz@utoronto.ca
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Mary Sco.

Adjunct Lecturer & Family Physician

Areas of Expertise

  • Nutrition
  • Nutrition for Disease Prevention (Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Fatty Liver etc.)
  • Nutrition for Weight Loss
  • Nutrition for Women’s Health (Pregnancy, Fertility, Anxiety/Depression, Migraines, Breast Cancer etc.)

Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.scourboutakos@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Matt Kurrek

Professor

Matt Kurrek

Areas of Expertise

  • Benchmarking through data registries
  • Office-based and out-of-hospital anesthesia
  • Peer assessment
  • Quality control and multi-source feedback (MSF)
  • Simulation

Office: 416-399-7640
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: m.kurrek@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Matthew Sheppard

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Medical Education and Administration
  • Pain Medicine and Chronic Pain Management
  • Perinatal and Obstetric Anesthesia

Office: (416) 586-5270
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: m.sheppard@utoronto.ca

Michael D. Cusimano

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Brain tumours
  • Cerebral aneurysms
  • Clinical Neurosciences/Neurosurgery
  • Injury prevention
  • Medical Education and Public Health
  • Meningiomas
  • Neurosurgery
  • NPH
  • Pituitary adenomas
  • Traumatic brain injury

Office: (416) 864-6048
Languages: English,Italian
Website
Email: michael.cusimano@unityhealth.to
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online