Centre for the Study of Pain

Gillian Einstein

Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Psychology
  • Public Health Sciences
• Centres
  • Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• BRCA mutation (breast and ovarian cancer) prophylaxis effects on cognition
• Cognitive effects of oophorectomy
• Effects of culture and experience on the nervous system
• Effects of steroid hormones on mental health
• Effects of the menstrual cycle on mood and sleep
• Estrogen and the brain
• Female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting
• Gender and health
• Interactions between sex and gender
• sex differences
• Women's health

Office: 416-978-0896
Website
Email: gillian.einstein@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Harvey Moldofsky

Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Chronic fatigue
• Fibromylagia
• Primary sleep disorders
• Sleep and chronobiology
• Sleep related Medical and Psychiatric Disorders

Office: 416-603-9531
Website
Email: h.moldofsky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Min Zhuo

Professor, Department of Physiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain

Areas of Expertise

• Emotional fear and anxiety
• Memory
• Molecular mechanism for chronic pain

Office: 416-978-4018
Email: min.zhuo@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peter Pennefather

Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Biophysics
• Digital health
• Global health
• Information
• Knowledge design

Office: 416-978-6607
Home: 416-461-0606
Mobile: 647-773-3987
Languages: French
Website
Email: p.pennefather@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ze’ev Seltzer

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Pain Genetics

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Anaesthesia
  • Dentistry
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Global Health Consortium

Areas of Expertise

• Animal models of human diseases
• Genetics of pain
• Human and animal pain
• Neurobiology of pain
• Plasticity of the nervous system

Office: 416-979-4900 x4433
Home: 416-783-5296
Mobile: 647-287-3040
Languages: Hebrew
Email: zeev.seltzer@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online