Media Releases

Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines

November 13, 2013

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philip­pines.

Health dis­as­ter and emer­gency man­age­ment
Bri­an Schwartz
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Dal­la Lana School of Pub­lic Health
Temer­ty Temer­ty Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine
Depart­ment of Fam­i­ly and Com­mu­ni­ty Med­i­cine
Depart­ment of Health Pol­i­cy, Man­age­ment & Eval­u­a­tion
Office: 647–260-7181
Cell: 647–990-2399
brian.schwartz@oahpp.ca

Ani­mals in dis­as­ters
Dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness
Carin Wit­tnich
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Phys­i­ol­o­gy
Depart­ment of Surgery
Insti­tute of Med­ical Sci­ence
Office: 416–978-7744
c.wittnich@utoronto.ca

Crit­i­cal ill­ness
Sep­sis
John Mar­shall
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Surgery
Office: 416–340-5204
marshallj@smh.toronto.on.ca

Crit­i­cal Care/ICU
Dis­as­ter Med­i­cine
Pub­lic Health
Triage
Michael Chris­t­ian
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Dal­la Lana School of Pub­lic Health
Temer­ty Temer­ty Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine
Depart­ment of Med­i­cine
Office: 416.586.4800 #7943
Cell:  416.710.2822 (Please use this after Novem­ber 17)
UK Cell: 07742140284
michael.christian@utoronto.ca
*NOTE: In the UK until Sun­day but avail­able by email, phone and text.

Com­put­ers in edu­ca­tion and emer­gency med­i­cine
Emer­gency med­i­cine
Hand­held com­put­ers in med­i­cine
Mass Casu­al­ty Inci­dent Pre­pared­ness
Paul Arnold
Clin­i­cal Instruc­tor
St.George Cam­pus
Temer­ty Temer­ty Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine
Office: 416–603-5405, 416–340-3856
pf.arnold@utoronto.ca 
Lan­guages: French, Chi­nese

Acute coro­nary syn­dromes
Emer­gency med­i­cine
Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal med­i­cine
Severe sep­sis
Harold Fish­er
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Depart­ment of Fam­i­ly and Com­mu­ni­ty Med­i­cine
Cell: 416–417-5990
haroldn.fisher@sympatico.ca

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to media rela­tions
Tel: 416–978-0100
media.relations@utoronto.ca