Faculty of Dentistry

A. Jose Lanca

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacology and Toxicology

Areas of Expertise

• Herbal medications
• Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter receptors
• Pharmacology of alcoholism and drug addiction

Office: 416-979-4900 ext. 4609
Home: 416-620-7998
Mobile: 416-830-8313
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Website
Email: aj.lanca@utoronto.ca
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Asbjorn Jokstad

Professor, Faculty of Dentistry

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry

Areas of Expertise

• Evidence-based Medicine in Dentistry
• Quality of dental clinical trials
• Quality/performance of dental (restorative) materials
• Quality/performance of dental implants

Office: 416-979-4930 ext. 4427
Home: 416-519-3975
Mobile: 647-272-1782
Languages: Scandinavian: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Website
Email: a.jokstad@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Aviv Ouanounou

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Pharmacology

Areas of Expertise

• Dental pharmacology
• Geriatric dentistry
• Mouth health
• Neuropsychiatric disorders on dentistry
• Periodontal and oral diseases
• Periodontics
• Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Office: 416-831-9795
Languages: French, Hebrew
Website
Email: aviv.ouanounou@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Barry Sessle

Professor, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry

Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Dentistry
  • Physiology

Areas of Expertise

• Oral physiology
• Orofacial neuromuscular functions
• Orofacial pain

Office: 416- 946-3742
Email: barry.sessle@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Boris Hinz

Professor, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry

Professor, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Dentistry
  • Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering
  • Surgery

Areas of Expertise

• 'Scarless' wound healing
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Group in Matrix Dynamics
• Cell Contraction
• Chronic asthma
• Fibrosis (such as after Cardia Infarct, Liver Cirrhosis, Chronic Asthma, Burn Wounds, Scleroderma)
• Scar Tissues
• The Skeleton of The Cell (Cytoskeleton)
• Tissue Repair and Regeneration
• Tumor Development

Office: 416 978 8728.
Email: boris.hinz@utoronto.ca
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Carlos Quinonez

Associate Professor, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry

Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health, Dana Lana School of Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Dentistry
• Centres
  • Dental Research Institute

Areas of Expertise

• Applied policy analysis
• Dental care
• Dental public health
• Health services equity
• Health services research
• Oral health
• Public health dentistry
• Social sciences and dentistry
• Social sciences and health
• The politics and economics of dentistry

Office: 416-979-4908 x 4491
Website
Email: carlos.quinonez@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Christopher McCulloch

Professor, Department of Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

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
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David Mock

Dean Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Faculty of Dentistry

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Areas of Expertise

• Oral medicine
• Oral pathology
• Orofacial (craniofacial) pain

Office: 416-979-4910, ext. 4383
Email: david.mock@utoronto.ca
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Iona Leong

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry

Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Areas of Expertise

• Diseases of the mouth and jaw
• Oral medicine
• Oral pathology

Office: 416-864-8362
Mobile: 416-200-7546
Email: iona.leong@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Laurent Bozec

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

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
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Limor Avivi-Arber

Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Dentistry

Areas of Expertise

• Implant prosthodontics
• Oral neurophysiology
• Osseoperception

Office: 416-864-8192
Home: 647-225-2647
Languages: Hebrew
Email: limor.avivi.arber@utoronto.ca
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Michael Glogauer

Professor, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Dentistry
• Centres
  • Dental Research Institute

Areas of Expertise

• Innate immunity
• Neutrophil functions
• Oral and periodontal diseases
• Periodontics

Office: 416-978-0163
Mobile: 905-973-0664
Email: michael.glogauer@utoronto.ca
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Paul Santerre

Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Biomedical Engineering
• Centres
  • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME)

Areas of Expertise

• Biomaterials
• Commercialization
• Implantable medical devices
• Tissue engineering

Office: 416-946-8158
Languages: english and french
Website
Email: paul.santerre@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Sunjay Suri

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry

Areas of Expertise

• Cleft Palate Treatment
• Dentistry
• Orthodontics

Office: 416-979-4924 ext. 4397
Email: sunjay.suri@dentistry.utoronto.ca
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Tim Bressmann

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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Areas of Expertise

• 3D-ultrasound tongue imaging
• Cleft lip and palate
• Craniofacial syndromes
• Head and neck cancer
• Laryngectomy
• Speech and voice disorders
• Speech science
• speech therapy
• Tongue surgery
• Ultrasound

Office: 416-978-7088
Home: 647-896-2696
Languages: German, French
Email: tim.bressmann@utoronto.ca
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Ze’ev Seltzer

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Pain Genetics

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Dentistry
• Department
  • Anaesthesia
  • Dentistry
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Global Health Consortium

Areas of Expertise

• Animal models of human diseases
• Genetics of pain
• Human and animal pain
• Neurobiology of pain
• Plasticity of the nervous system

Office: 416-979-4900 x4433
Home: 416-783-5296
Mobile: 647-287-3040
Languages: Hebrew
Email: zeev.seltzer@utoronto.ca
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