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Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Suze G. Berkhout

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Coping in the face of uncertainty
  • Emotional challenges in serious illness and solid organ transplantation
  • Ethical issues relating to MAiD for sole underlying condition of mental disorder
  • Managing stress and anxiety
  • Mental health care for healthcare workers, burnout
  • Placebo / Nocebo effects
  • Social impacts of technology in health (especially mental health)
  • Treatment refractory mental health experiences
  • Using arts in health

Office: 416-340-3747, 416-340-3762
Languages: English
Website
Email: suze.berkhout@mail.utoronto.ca
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Tania Watts

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
  • Director of Toronto Human Immunology Network
  • Immunity
  • Immunity to viruses and cancer
  • Influenza
  • Melanoma
  • Protein Kinase N1
  • SARS-CoV2
  • T cells
  • TNFR associated factor 1, flow cytometry
  • Tumor necrosis factor family (immune modulation)
  • Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily
  • Viruses

Office: (416) 978-4551
Website
Email: tania.watts@utoronto.ca
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Terumi Izukawa

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Falls and osteoporosis
  • Geriatric medicine
  • Postgraduate medical education

Office: 416-785-2500 Ext. 2621
Languages: English
Website
Email: t.izukawa@utoronto.ca
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Thomas Kislinger

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cancer Diagnosis
  • Cancer Mechanisms and Models
  • Data Science and Computational Biology
  • Therapy

Office: (416) 581-7627
Website
Email: thomas.kislinger@utoronto.ca
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Thomas Ungar

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Collaborative integrated mental health care
  • Health design and innovation
  • Health media and technology
  • Mental health education for physicians and the general public
  • Mental health stigma and equity and quality of care
  • Mental health systems of care
  • Primary care family medicine mental health

Office: 416-756-6444` Ext. 8739
Languages: English
Website
Email: tungar@nygh.on.ca

Tony Lam

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Diabetes
  • Hormonal action
  • Nutrient sensing
  • Obesity

Office: 416-581-7880
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: tlam@uhnresearch.ca

Tony Mazzulli

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care
  • Bridgepoint Hospital
  • Laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Princess Margaret Hospital (University Health Network)
  • the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • Toronto General Hospital (University Health Network)
  • Toronto Grace Health Centre
  • Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
  • Toronto Western Hospital (University Health Network)
  • Trillium Gift of Life Network.
  • Viruses and viral infections

Office: 416-586-4695
Mobile: 647-291-3670
Website
Email: tony.mazzulli@sinaihealthsystem.ca
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Valerie Tarasuk

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Food and nutrition
  • Food and poverty
  • Food banks
  • Food fortification in Canada
  • Food insecurity
  • Food policy
  • Nutrition inequities
  • Nutrition labelling

Office: (416) 978-0618
Website
Email: valerie.tarasuk@utoronto.ca
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Vincent Chan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Evaluation of pharmacological and clinical properties of anesthetic/analgesic agents
  • Methods of teaching regional anesthesia
  • Pain management
  • Regional anesthesia
  • Regional anesthetic techniques and postoperative outcomes
  • Ultrasound imaging for peripheral nerve blocks

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: vincent.chan@uhn.ca
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W. Mark Erwin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arthritis
  • Degenerative disc disease
  • Lower back pain
  • Notogen (invention arresting degenerative disc disease)
  • Spine and spinal pain
  • Stem cells
  • Tissue engineering

Office: 416-603-5800 Ext. 3308
Mobile: 416-721-4834
Languages: English
Website
Email: mark.erwin@utoronto.ca
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Walid Houry

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biophysics
  • Molecular chaperones
  • Protein degredation
  • Protein folding
  • Proteomics

Office: 416-946-7141
Mobile: 416- 841-1205
Languages: Arabic
Website
Email: walid.houry@utoronto.ca
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Wendy Wolfman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • General Gynaecology (co-head Gynaecology Guideline Committee for Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada)
  • Menopause
  • Premature ovarian insufficiency

Office: 416-586-4753
Website
Email: wendy.wolfman@utoronto.ca
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William Navarre

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Bacterial disease
  • E.coli
  • Microbiome
  • Salmonella
  • Staphylococcus Aureus

Office: 416-946-5356
Website
Email: william.navarre@utoronto.ca
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York Po-Chee Pei

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetic epidemiology
  • Human molecular genetics
  • Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome
  • IgA nephropathy
  • Polycystic kidney disease

Office: 416-340-4257
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: york.pei@uhn.ca
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Zhaolei Zhang

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Genomics

Office: (416) 946-0924
Languages: Chinese
Website
Email: zhaolei.zhang@utoronto.ca
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