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Ahmed El-Sohemy
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Caffeine
- Coffee
- Genetic testing
- Microbiome
- Nutrigenetics
- Nutrigenomics
- Nutrition
- Personalized nutrition
Office: (416) 946-5776
Mobile: (416) 669-8791
Website
Email: a.el.sohemy@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Sabiston
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Body-related emotions
- Exercise and health psychology
- Mental health
- Physical activity and cancer
- Physical activity intervention
- Physical activity measurement
- Physical self
- Psychosocial determinants of health behaviour
Office: 416-978-5837
Languages (in addition to English): French
Website
Email: catherine.sabiston@utoronto.ca
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Darlene Reid
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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 Jenkins
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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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Dominique Morisano
Adjunct Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Addiction (esp. cannabis; alcohol; cocaine)
- Clinical psychology
- Evidence based practices and their implementation
- Goals and Motivation
- Harm-reduction approach
- Implementation science and the use of evidence in treatment systems
- Mental health (depression; anxiety; trauma)
- Mental health and wellness service-system improvements for Indigenous Peoples of Canada
- Mindfulness-based interventions
- Psychedelics-Assisted Therapies and Research; psychedelic industry; psychedelics and mental health; psychedelics and addiction
- Research and publication ethics
Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-792-8778 (work mobile)
Email: dominique.morisano@utoronto.ca
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Jack Goodman
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiac consequences of ‘excessive’ exercise
- Cardiac rehabilitation and effects on cardiovascular function
- Cardiovascular risks of exercise
- Effects of prolonged exercise on heart function
- Exercise and the risk of arrhythmias
- Exercise-related sudden death
Office: (416) 978-6095
Email: jack.goodman@utoronto.ca
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Scott Thomas
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Exercise and ageing
- Exercise and performance
- Increasing access to cardiovascular health
- Quantifying the exercise dose/response relation
Office: 416-978-6957
Mobile: 6475196957
Email: scott.thomas@utoronto.ca
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Steve Joordens
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anxiety
- Attention
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- Educational Psychology
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental well-being
- Perception
- Skill Development and Measurement
- Social pressure, Managing boundaries
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Website
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