World Diabetes Day

Bernard Zinman

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Epidemiology and clinical trials related to diabetes
• Metabolic control/long-term effects of diabetes
• New therapies for diabetes

Office: 416-586-8747
Website
Email: zinman@lunenfeld.ca
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Carolyn Cummins

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Areas of Expertise

• Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Glucocorticoids
• Nuclear receptors
• Stress hormones

Office: 416-946-3466
Home: 647-449-8859
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca
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David Jenkins

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

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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Diane Wherrett

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Paediatrics

Areas of Expertise

• Pediatric endocrinology
• Type 1 diabetes and prevention

Office: 416-813-8159
Email: diane.wherrett@sickkids.ca
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Jayne Danska

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Immunology

Areas of Expertise

• Genetics of autoimmune disease
• Intestinal microbiome and immune system interaction
• Mechanisms of lymphoblastic leukemia
• Type 1 diabetes

Office: (416) 813-6450
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: jayne.danska@sickkids.ca
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Khosrow Adeli

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

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 (in addition to English): Persian
Website
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
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Laura Rosella

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Management and Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Diabetes and obesity prevention
• Epidemiology
• Evidence in public health decision-making
• Health services research
• Impact of prevention on health care sustainability
• Obesity
• Population health
• Population health interventions
• Population-based risk tools to support health decision-making
• Public health policy
• Type 2 diabetes

Office: (416) 978-6064
Mobile: (416) 258-4678
Website
Email: laura.rosella@utoronto.ca
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Lawrence Alan Leiter

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine

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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Leanne De Souza

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Human Biology

Areas of Expertise

• Child health
• Education
• Global health
• Public health
• Type 2 diabetes

Office: 416-978-8142
Website
Email: leanne.desouza@utoronto.ca
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Philippe Poussier

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Immunology

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: (416) 480-6136
Languages (in addition to English): English,French
Website
Email: philippe.poussier@utoronto.ca
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Xiaolin Wei

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Antibiotic resistance
• Diabetes
• Health outcome evaluations
• Implementation science, operations research, randomized controlled trials, cohort studies
• Primary care
• Primary care reform and policy evaluation
• Public health consultant
• Screening in airports
• Tuberculosis

Office: (416) 978-2020
Languages (in addition to English): Mandarin
Website
Email: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca
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