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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
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
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-340-4219
Email: cynthia.whitehead@utoronto.ca
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David White
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
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
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-586-8226
Email: howard.ovens@utoronto.ca
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Howard Seiden
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
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Janet Smylie
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 905-494-2120
Email: julia.lee@utoronto.ca
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Lisa McCarthy
Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-834-6925
Website
Email: muna.al.khaifi@mail.utoronto.ca
Paul Arnold
Clinical Instructor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
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
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
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
- Department
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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