Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Avrum Gotlieb
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Academic
- Blood vessel disease
- Cadiovascular pathology
- Heart disease
- Laboratory medicine policies
- Medical education
Office: 416-978-2557
Home: 416-636-5122
Email: avrum.gotlieb@utoronto.ca
Bharati Bapat
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cancer genetics
- Epigenetics
- Gastrointestinal cancers
- Genitourinary cancers
- Molecular diagnostics of cancer predisposition
Office: 416-586-4800 ext. 5175
Languages: Hindi, Marathi
Email: bapat@lunenfeld.ca
Christopher McCulloch
Professor, Department of Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Actin cytoskeleton
- Calcium signaling and flow cytometry
- CIHR group in matrix dynamics
- Connective tissue between teeth and gums
- Oral health (gum and supporting structures)
- Periodontal tissue regeneration
- Technical expertise: confocal microscopy
Office: 416-978-1258
Languages: Written French
Email: christopher.mcculloch@utoronto.ca
David Irwin
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0519
Home: 647-340-9371
Email: david.irwin@utoronto.ca
David Mock
Dean Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Faculty of Dentistry
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-979-4910, ext. 4383
Email: david.mock@utoronto.ca
Don Mahuran
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Chemical chaperones for chronic Tay-Sachs
- Enzymology
- Gene therapy for Gaucher disease
- Lysosomal proteomics
- Lysosomal storage diseases
- Sandhoff and Gaucher disease
Office: 416-813-6161
Home: 416-766-0529
Email: don.mahuran@utoronto.ca
Frances Jamieson
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 647-792-3169
Email: frances.jamieson@oahpp.ca
Gerold Schmitt-Ulms
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-507-6864
Home: 416-693-4768
Languages: German, Latin
Email: g.schmittulms@utoronto.ca
Gino Somers
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular genetic pathology
- Molecular pathology
- Pediatric oncology/cancer
- Pediatric pathology
- Quality improvement in pathology
- Test development for pediatric cancer
Office: 416 813 5972
Website
Email: gino.somers@sickkids.ca
Heyu Ni
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Autoimmune diseases
- Immunology
- Pathology
- Thrombosis and haemostasis
- Vascular biology and cardiovascular diseases
Office: nih@smh.ca
Home: 416-492-8597
Languages: Mandarin
Email: heyu.ni@utoronto.ca
Ian Crandall
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6627
Home: 416-590-0212
Email: ian.crandall@utoronto.ca
Iona Leong
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-864-8362
Mobile: 416-200-7546
Email: iona.leong@dentistry.utoronto.ca
Jagdish Butany
Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiovascular pathology
- Pathiology of cardiomyopathies/heart transplantation
- Pathology of prosthetic heart valves and cardiac devices
- Vascular disease
Office: 416-340-3003
Mobile: 416-464-0622
Languages: Hindi
Email: jagdish.butany@uhn.ca
Janice Robertson
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-0435
Email: jan.robertson@utoronto.ca
John Semple
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-864-5534
Mobile: 905-391-5534
Email: semplej@smh.ca
Kalman Kovacs
Professor Emeritus, Laboratory of Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-864-5851 ext. 2365
Home: 416-487-9850
Languages: Hungarian
Email: kovacsk@smh.toronto.on.ca
Kenneth Pritzker
Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Biomedical applications of fullerenes
- Biomineralization
- Connective tissue neoplasia
- Connective tissues as biomaterials
- Laboratory diagnostics
- Laboratory tests to asess cancer and precancer and response to chemotherapy
- Novel biomaterials
- Osteoarthritis
- Pathogenesis of crystal deposits in tissues
- Pathogenesis of degenerative joint diseases
Office: 647-221-6909
Email: k.pritzker@utoronto.ca
Khosrow Adeli
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Biomarkers of pediatric disease
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Insulin resistance
- Laboratory biomarkers of pediatric disease
- Laboratory medicine and clinical laboratory investigations
- Lipids and lipoproteins
- Normal values/reference intervals for laboratory tests in children and adolescents
- Obesity studies in animal models
- Pediatric laboratory medicine
- Role of nutrition in obesity and Diabetes (e.g. high fructose diets)
Office: 416-813-8682
Mobile: 416-918-2280
Languages: Persian
Email: k.adeli@utoronto.ca
Laurent Bozec
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic force microscopy
- Collagen
- Connective Tissue Disorders
- Oral health diagnostics
- Tooth structure and wellbeing
Office: 416-864-8226
Languages: English(bilingual), Français (natif)
Website
Email: l.bozec@dentistry.utoronto.ca
Lili-Naz Hazrati
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Acquired brain injury
- Alzheimer's disease
- Concussions
- Neurodegeneration
- Parkinson's disease
- Traumatic brain injury
Office: 416-813-1500
Home: 416-963-9936
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Farsi Website
Website
Email: lilinaz.hazrati@utoronto.ca
Mansoor Husain
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Physiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiology
- Diabetes and heart disease
- Discovery: identifying targets for heart disease therapy
- Discovery: impact of genetics on heart research
- Discovery: impact of regenerative medicine/stem cells on heart research
- Discovery: the molecular bases of cardiovascular diseases
- Heart failure
- Nuclear cardiology
- Obesity and heart disease
- Treating heart patients
Office: 416-340-3188
Website
Email: mansoor.husain@uhn.ca
Marc Grynpas
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Biomineralization
- Bone and diabetes
- Bone quality
- Long term effect of drugs on the skeleton
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Pathological calcifications
Office: 416-586-4800, ext. 4464
Languages: French
Email: marc.grynpas@utoronto.ca
Norman Rosenblum
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-813-5667
Home: 905-886-9773
Email: norman.rosenblum@utoronto.ca
Oyedele Adeyi
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Liver pathology
- Liver transplantation pathology
- Transplantation immunology
- Transplantation Pathology
Office: 416-340-3136
Home: 416-849-6411
Mobile: 647-405-4015
Languages: Yoruba
Email: oyedele.adeyi@uhn.ca
P Shaw
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-340-4690
Email: pat.shaw@utoronto.ca
Paul Hamel
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-8741
Mobile: 647-222-8645
Email: paul.hamel@utoronto.ca
Reinhold Vieth
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Biochemical markers of calcium and bone metabolism and osteoporosis
- Clinical nutrition
- Role of vitamin D in health and well being
- safety and efficacy of vitamin D
- Vitamin D in the prevention of osteoporosis and cancer
Office: 416-992-9389
Home: 416-469-4772
Mobile: 416-992-9389
Email: reinhold.vieth@utoronto.ca
Samira Mubareka
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-480-4823
Languages: French
Website
Email: samira.mubareka@sunnybrook.ca
Sylvia Asa
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-340-4802
Mobile: 416-509-8119
Languages: French
Email: sylvia.asa@uhn.ca