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Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Michelle Arnot

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Academic service learning
  • Community engaged learning
  • Community involvement in teaching
  • Concerns regarding addictions and misuse
  • General pharmacology
  • Harm reduction
  • Pharmacology education
  • Substance Use Disorder

Office: (416) 978-3164
Website
Email: michelle.arnot@utoronto.ca
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Mireille Norris

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Determinants of health in seniors with dementia
  • EDI
  • Fall prevention in seniors living in community and long-term care
  • Health care policy and seniors
  • Social justice in medical education and healthcare

Office: (416) 480-6100 Ext. 4076
Home: 416-635-0170
Mobile: 416-528-0603
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: mireille.norris@sunnybrook.ca
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Molly Verrier

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical neurophysiology
  • Development of novel intervention strategies for restorative motor control for posture, mobility and function, and
  • Evaluation of neurotherapeutic techniques and neurorehabilitation service delivery.
  • Health service delivery
  • Physical therapy
  • Rehabilitation informatics
  • Rehabilitation spinal cord injury
  • Utilization of electromyography, kinetic and kinematic analysis for understanding neurological disorders

Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.verrier@utoronto.ca
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Morris Sherman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic viral hepatitis
  • Liver cancer

Office: 416-340-4756
Website
Email: dr.morris.sherman@uhn.ca
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Muna Alkhaifi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Breast cancer
  • Breast cancer survivorship care
  • Menopause
  • Sexual health
  • Women's health

Office: 416-480-6100
Mobile: 416-834-6925
Website
Email: muna.al.khaifi@mail.utoronto.ca

Najma Ahmed

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Access to emergency surgical care
  • Emergency surgery
  • Gun Violence
  • Physician advocacy
  • Social determinants of health
  • Surgery
  • Trauma

Office: 416-864-5481
Languages: English,Urdu
Website
Email: najma.ahmed@unityhealth.to
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Natalie Clavel

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

    Office: 416-603-5118
    Languages: English,French
    Website
    Email: natalie.clavel@uhn.ca

    Nathan Herrmann

    Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

    Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

    Scientist, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    Areas of Expertise

    • Clinical pharmacology
    • Geriatric neuropsychopharmacology
    • Geriatric psychiatry

    Office: 416-480-6133
    Website
    Email: n.herrmann@utoronto.ca
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    Naveed Siddiqui

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Education
    • Perioperative patient safety

    Office: N/A
    Mobile: 416.586.5270
    Languages: English,Hindi,Panjabi; Punjabi,Urdu
    Website
    Email: naveed.siddiqui@uhn.ca

    Neil Goldenberg

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Autoimmunity
    • Macrophage
    • Pulmonary Hypertension
    • Vascular inflammation

    Office: (416) 813-7654 Ext. 309173
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: neil.goldenberg@utoronto.ca

    Neil Lazar

    Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Critical care medicine
    • Quality end of life care
    • Respirology

    Office: N/A
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: neil.lazar@uhn.ca
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    Neil Rector

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cognitive-behavioural therapy
    • Depression
    • Depression psychosis (psychological models)
    • Generalized anxiety
    • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
    • Panic disorder
    • Phobias
    • Psychological treatments for anxiety/depression
    • Social anxiety
    • Stress

    Office: 416-480-6100 Ext. 2233
    Mobile: 416-432-4587
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: neil.rector@sunnybrook.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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Nick Reed

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Brain Injury
    • Children
    • Concussion
    • Mild Traumatic
    • Youth

    Office: (416) 978-0302
    Website
    Email: nick.reed@utoronto.ca

    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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    Pascal van Lieshout

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Dynamical systems theory
    • Oral motor control in speech and swallowing
    • Speech disorders
    • Stuttering

    Office: (416) 978-8334
    Mobile: (905) 749-1302
    Website
    Email: p.vanlieshout@utoronto.ca

    Pat McKee

    Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Arthritis
    • Cumulative trauma
    • Ergonomics
    • Hand therapy
    • Orthotics; splinting
    • Repetitive strain injuries
    • splinting

    Office: 416-978-1817
    Mobile: 416-895-8430
    Website
    Email: pat.mckee@utoronto.ca
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    Patricia Houston

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cardiovascular anesthesia
    • Critical care
    • Education

    Office: 416-978-6709
    Website
    Email: patricia.houston@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Patrick Gullane

    Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

    Professor, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

    Wharton Chair in Head & Neck Surgery, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

    Areas of Expertise

    • Head and neck oncology
    • Head and neck surgery and reconstruction
    • Molecular causation of oral cancer
    • Skull base surgery

    Office: 416-340-5016
    Email: patrick.gullane@uhn.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Paul Hamel

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cancer biology
    • Cell biology
    • Global health
    • Human rights
    • Molecular biology

    Office: (416) 978-8741
    Mobile: (647) 222-8645
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: paul.hamel@utoronto.ca
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    Paul Sandor

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Neurodevelopmental disorders
    • Neuropsychiatry
    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder [OCD] and ADHD
    • Psychopharmacology
    • Tourette syndrome

    Office: 416-603-5794
    Mobile: 416-523-1258
    Languages: English,Slovak,Hungarian
    Website
    Email: paul.sandor@uhn.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Peggy Margaret A. Richter

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Cognitive-behaviour therapy for anxiety
    • Hoarding disorder
    • Neurobiology of OCD and Related Disorders
    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
    • Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder)

    Office: 416-480-6832
    Mobile: 416-729-9169
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: peggy.richter@sunnybrook.ca
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    Peter Backx

    Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Arrhythmias
    • Heart disease
    • Ion channels
    • Molecular biology

    Office: 647-244-2538
    Website
    Email: p.backx@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Peter Collins

    Associate Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Child sexual assault material (child pornography)
    • Crisis/Hostage negotiation
    • Extremism
    • Military psychiatry
    • Operational police psychiatry
    • Violent crime - homicide, sexual homicide, sexual deviance

    Office: 416-979-6847
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: peter.collins@utoronto.ca
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    Peter John Roy

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Parasitic Prodrugs, The Roy Lab has discovered a suite of antiparasitic small molecule scaffolds that are bioconverted by the parasites into lethal products.
    • PEXIL™ Technology, Peter’s group has recently developed a new, high-throughput, massively paralleled drug and pesticide screening technology called PEXIL™.

    Office: 647-881-6594
    Website
    Email: peter.roy@utoronto.ca

    Peter Selby

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Digital health
    • Implementation Science
    • Tobacco dependence and addiction

    Office: (416) 535-8501 Ext. 36859
    Languages: English,Hindi,Marathi
    Website
    Email: peter.selby@camh.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Peter St.George-Hyslop

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Alzheimer's disease
    • Dementia
    • Frontotemporal dementia
    • Parkinson disease

    Office: (416) 507-6840
    Website
    Email: p.hyslop@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Philip Kim

    Professor

    Philip Kim

    Areas of Expertise

    • Computational biology
    • drug discovery
    • Protein interactions

    Office: 416-946-3419
    Home: 647-505-3419
    Languages: German, Korean
    Website
    Email: pm.kim@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Philippe Poussier

    Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Autoimmune diseases
    • Immunology
    • Inflammatory bowel diseases
    • Insulin-dependent diabetes

    Office: (416) 480-6136
    Languages: English,French
    Website
    Email: philippe.poussier@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Rachel Tyndale

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Pharmacogenetics
    • Smoking

    Office: (416) 978-6374
    Mobile: (647) 406-7619
    Website
    Email: r.tyndale@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online