The Wilson Centre

Barry Pakes

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic and Inuit health
• COVID response
• Global health
• Global health ethics
• India COVID-19 crisis
• Pandemic influenza
• Primary care
• Public health
• Public health education
• Public health ethics
• Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
• Tobacco control
• Vaccinology

Office: 647-328-5567
Languages: English
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Naomi Steenhof

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Centres
  • The Institute for Education Research (TIER)
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Chronic pain
• Geriatrics
• Opioids
• Pharmacy practice
• Teaching and learning in health professions

Office: 416-978-2341
Languages: English
Website
Email: naomi.steenhof@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Suze G. Berkhout

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Psychiatry
• Centres
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Coping in the face of uncertainty
• Emotional challenges in serious illness and solid organ transplantation
• Ethical issues relating to MAiD for sole underlying condition of mental disorder
• Managing stress and anxiety
• Mental health care for healthcare workers, burnout
• Placebo / Nocebo effects
• Social impacts of technology in health (especially mental health)
• Treatment refractory mental health experiences
• Using arts in health

Office: 416-340-3747, 416-340-3762
Languages: English
Website
Email: suze.berkhout@mail.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online