Institute of Medical Science

Cindi Morshead

Professor, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Chair, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Surgery
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME)
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Neural stem cells
• Regenerative medicine

Office: 416-946-5575
Website
Email: cindi.morshead@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cynthia Menard

Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Radiation Oncology
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Brachytherapy
• Brain tumours
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Prostate cancer
• Radiosurgery
• Radiotherapy

Office: 416-946-6513
Languages: French
Email: cynthia.menard@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

David Malkin

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medical Biophysics
  • Paediatrics
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Bone sarcomas (tumors)
• Cancer genetics
• Cancer predisposition
• p53 tumor suppressor gene
• Pediatric oncology
• Tumor suppressor genes

Office: 416-813-5348
Home: 416-638-9327
Email: david.malkin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Erik Yeo

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Coagulation
• Hematology
• Hemostasis
• Platelets
• Thrombosis

Office: 416-340-4069
Email: erik.yeo@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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 & 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: 416-485-4964
Website
Email: h.moldofsky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Howard Mount

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine(division of neurology), Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Psychiatry
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Alzheimer's disease
• Graduate training in the Faculty of Medicine
• Preclinical models of neurodegenerative disease
• Translational research education

Office: 416-507-6883 , 416-946-8286
Website
Email: howard.mount@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jodie Jenkinson

Associate Professor and Director, Biomedical Communications

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biology (UTM)
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Biomedical Visualization
• Information visualization
• Visual Complexity and Learning

Office: 905-569-4263
Mobile: 416-400-8796
Website
Email: j.jenkinson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Julie Mendelson

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Aging in auditory and visual systems
• Speech processing

Office: 416-597-3422 ext. 7608
Home: 416-418-8363
Languages: French
Email: j.mendelson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lucy Osborne

Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Graduate Coordinator, Institute of Medical Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Molecular Genetics
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Human genetic disease
• Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Williams syndrome

Office: 416-946-5804
Home: 416-466-6592
Website
Email: lucy.osborne@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Molly S Shoichet

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
• Department
  • Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME)
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Polymers for applications in medicine
• Regenerative diseases such a blindness
• Spinal cord injury repair
• Targeted delivery in cancer
• Tissue engineering
• Traumatic injury to the brain (including stroke)

Office: 416-978-1460
Languages: English and French
Website
Email: molly.shoichet@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Molly Verrier

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Physical Therapy
  • Physiology
  • Rehabilitation Science
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical neurophysiology
• Health service delivery
• Physical therapy
• Rehabilitation informatics
• Rehabilitation spinal cord injury

Office: 416-978-5935
Email: m.verrier@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Neil Sweezey

Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Paediatrics
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Childhood respiratory illnesses
• Cystic fibrosis
• Cystic fibrosis – the gender gap
• Lung development

Office: 416-813-5128
Languages: French
Email: neil.sweezey@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Woolridge

Associate Professor

Past Director of the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications Program

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Biology (UTM)
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• COVID-19 – visualizing the structure and activity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
• Visual resources in health education
• Visualizations of the progress of the pandemic in Canada and abroad

Office: 905-569-4264
Email: n.woolridge@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peggy Margaret A. Richter

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Psychiatry
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety
• Hoarding disorder
• Neurobiology of OCD and Related Disorders
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder)

Office: 416-480-6832
Mobile: 416-729-9169
Email: peggy.richter@sunnybrook.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ranil Sonnadara

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Exercise Sciences
  • Surgery
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Coaching
• Medical education
• Motor learning
• Music perception
• Sensory-Motor Integration

Office: 416-586-4800 x 3850
Mobile: 905-929-5119
Email: ranil.sonnadara@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Susan Tarlo

Professor

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Allergy
• Asthma and allergy
• Environmental respiratory effects
• Occupational lung disease and asthma

Office: 416-603-5177
Email: susan.tarlo@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Taryn Grieder

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Psychology

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Psychology
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Addiction
• Behaviour
• Learning
• Neuroscience
• Stress

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-402-0630
Email: taryn.grieder@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

W. Mark Erwin

Assistant Professor, Divisions of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Surgery
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Arthritis
• Degenerative disc disease
• Lower back pain
• Notogen (invention arresting degenerative disc disease)
• Spine and spinal pain
• Stem cells
• Tissue engineering

Office: 416-603-5800 ext. 3308
Mobile: 416-721-4834
Website
Email: mark.erwin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

York Po-Chee Pei

Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Genetic epidemiology
• Human molecular genetics
• Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome
• IgA nephropathy
• Polycystic kidney disease

Office: 416-340-4257
Mobile: 647-938-4257
Languages: Chinese
Email: york.pei@uhn.on.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Young-In Kim

Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Nutritional Sciences
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science

Areas of Expertise

• Cancer prevention
• Folate and cancer
• Maternal nutrition and fetal health
• Nutrition and cancer
• Pharmacogenetics

Office: 416-864-5848
Languages: Korean
Email: youngin.kim@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online