World Diabetes Day
Bernard Zinman
Professor
Senior Investigator, Senior Scientist Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Email: zinman@lunenfeld.ca
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Carolyn Cummins
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-3466
Home: 647-449-8859
Website
Email: carolyn.cummins@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
Email: david.jenkins@utoronto.ca
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Diane Wherrett
Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital for Sick Children
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-813-8159
Email: diane.wherrett@sickkids.ca
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Jayne Danska
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Genetics of autoimmune disease
- Intestinal microbiome and immune system interaction
- Mechanisms of lymphoblastic leukemia
- Type 1 diabetes
Office: 416-813-8810
Website
Email: jayne.danska@sickkids.ca
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Khosrow Adeli
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
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Laura Rosella
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6064
Mobile: 416-258-4678
Website
Email: laura.rosella@utoronto.ca
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Lawrence Alan Leiter
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-867-7441
Email: lawrence.leiter@utoronto.ca
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Leanne De Souza
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-787-3507
Website
Email: leanne.desouza@utoronto.ca
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Philippe Poussier
Emeritus Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 011 33 6 43 67 96 27
Languages (in addition to English): French
Email: philippe.poussier@utoronto.ca
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Xiaolin Wei
Professor, Division of Clinical Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Antibiotic resistance
- Diabetes
- Health outcome evaluations
- Primary care
- 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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