Family and Community Medicine

Abhimanyu Sud

Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Academic Director, Safe Opioid Prescribing, Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Chronic pain
• Meditation
• Opioids
• Physician health and wellness

Office: N/A
Website
Email: abhimanyu.sud@utoronto.ca
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Allan Peterkin

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural history and psychiatry
• Gay (homosexual) and lesbian health
• Gay and lesbian health
• HIV-AIDS psychiatry
• LGBTQ
• Medical humanities
• Medical student and resident health
• Narrative medicine
• Physician

Office: 416-586-4800 ext. 3204
Home: 416-944-2656
Languages: French
Email: allan.peterkin@utoronto.ca
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Andrew Pinto

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Associate Director for Clinical Research, UTOPIAN

AI Lead, EXploring Innovative Technologies in Family Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Addictions
• AI in Health Care
• COVID-19
• Equity
• Family medicine
• HIV
• Homelessness
• Mental illness
• Prevention
• Primary care
• Public health
• Social determinants of health

Office: 416-864-6060 x76148
Website
Email: andrew.pinto@utoronto.ca
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Bernard Le Foll

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology
  • Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

• Alcohol nicotine and cannabis dependence
• Brain imaging
• Clinical trials
• Drug dependence
• Genetic studies
• Marijuana for medical use
• Preclinical models of drug dependence

Office: N/A
Email: bernard.lefoll@utoronto.ca
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Brian Schwartz

Professor, Clinical Public Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Clinical public health
• Health disaster and emergency management

Office: 647-260-7181
Mobile: 647-990-2399
Website
Email: media@oahpp.ca
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Cynthia Whitehead

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Director of the Wilson Centre

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • School of Graduate Studies
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
  • Management and Evaluation
  • The Wilson Centre

Areas of Expertise

• Health professions education research
• Medical education research

Office: 416-340-4219
Email: cynthia.whitehead@utoronto.ca
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David White

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Community-based research
• Family medicine
• Health promotion
• Illness prevention
• Lessons learned from SARS

Office: 416-978-6473
Mobile: 416-998-7082
Email: david.white@utoronto.ca
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Esme Fuller-Thomson

Professor & Director, Institute of Life Course & Aging

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
  • Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Grandparents raising grandchildren
• Immigrant and refugee health
• Long-term health consequences of childhood abuse
• Socioeconomic gradient in disability rates

Office: 416-978-3269
Home: 416-760-8176
Mobile: 416-209-3231
Website
Email: esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca
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Eva Grunfeld

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine; Professor, Institute for Healthy Policy, Management and Evaluation; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Chair, Institute Advisory Board, Institute for Cancer Research, CIHR

Clinician Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
• Centres
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Areas of Expertise

• Breast cancer
• Cancer health services
• Primary care

Office: 416-978-7951
Languages: English
Website
Email: eva.grunfeld@utoronto.ca
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Heather Boon

Vice-Provost, Faculty & Academic Life

Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Academic leadership
• Alternative and complementary medicine
• Herbal medicine
• Homeopathy
• Natural health products and herbal medicine
• Naturopathic medicine and homeopathy
• Qualitative research methods
• Regulation of Natural Health Products
• Regulation of traditional; complimentary and integrative medicine practitioners

Office: 416-978-3742
Mobile: 647-286-0401
Email: heather.boon@utoronto.ca
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Howard Ovens

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Emergency medicine administration and communications
• Emergency medicine policy issues

Office: 416-586-8226
Email: howard.ovens@utoronto.ca
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Howard Seiden

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Absenteeism
• Corporate and executive medicine
• Corporate health initiatives and policy for influenza; COVID and other health related matters including vaccine administration and screening
• Disability insurance
• Impairment and disability assessment
• Independent medical examinations
• Industrial/employee relations and illness
• Mask exemptions
• Medical-legal issues
• Motor vehicle; disability insurance
• Vaccine exemptions
• Workplace accommodation requests from health care providers in support of job modifications for physical and mental health impairment

Office: 416-362-8614
Mobile: 416- 616-6040
Email: howard.seiden@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Janet Smylie

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Anti-Indigenous racism in health services
• Indigenous data sovereignty and health information systems
• Indigenous health and public health
• Indigenous health equity across geographies with a focus on inclusion of FNIM living in urban and related homelands

Office: N/A
Email: janet.smylie@utoronto.ca
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Julia Lee

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Family medicine
• Food security
• International health
• Low-risk obstetrics
• Palliative care

Office: 905-494-2120
Email: julia.lee@utoronto.ca
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Lisa McCarthy

Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Ambulatory and primary care
• Elderly
• Geriatrics
• Health system care models
• Medication safety
• Older adults
• Pharmacist practice
• Pharmacy practice

Office: 416-566-2793
Website
Email: lisa.mccarthy@utoronto.ca
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Mel Borins

Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Complementary and holistic medicine
• Grief counselling
• Health benefits of vacations
• Healthy lifestyle
• Improving clinician patient communication
• Laughter as medicine
• Preventing burnout
• Stress management
• Traumatic events & resilience

Office: 416-533-6488
Home: 416-782-4530
Email: mel@melborins.com
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Muna Alkhaifi

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Breast cancer
• Breast cancer survivorship care
• Menopause
• Sexual health
• Women's health

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-834-6925
Website
Email: muna.al.khaifi@mail.utoronto.ca

Paul Arnold

Clinical Instructor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• Computers in education and emergency medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Handheld computers in medicine
• Mass casualty incident preparedness

Office: 416-603-5405
Languages: French, Chinese
Email: pf.arnold@utoronto.ca
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Peter Selby

Giblon Professor, Vice Chair Research (interim), Clinician Scientist DFCM, Psychiatry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Public Health Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Digital health
• Implementation Science
• Tobacco dependence and addiction

Office: 416-535-8501, ext. 36859
Email: peter.selby@utoronto.ca
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Ross Upshur

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine
• Centres
  • Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Joint Centre for Bioethics

Areas of Expertise

• Philosophy of medicine and public health
• Practice and policy
• Primary care research
• Public health ethics (communicable diseases)

Office: 416-978-4756
Mobile: 416-357-0663
Email: ross.upshur@utoronto.ca
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Samantha Green

Family physician, Assistant Professor, Faculty lead in climate change and health,

Board Member at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Family and Community Medicine

Areas of Expertise

• air pollution
• climate change and health
• climate change as global health threat
• First Nations communities & safety
• heat waves
• homelessness and health
• impact of extreme weather on vulnerable populations
• planetary health

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-529-1583
Email: samanthaegreen@gmail.com
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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