Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
Anthony Capotosto
Varsity Blues Soccer, Manager of Operations and Head Coach
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 978-3571
Email: a.capotosto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ashley Stirling
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Vice-Dean, Academics, Sport Psychology
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athlete welfare
- Curriculum development and evaluation
- Emotional abuse in sport
- Experiential Learning
- Psychosocial aspects of high performance athlete development
Office: 416-978-5835
Languages: English
Email: ashley.stirling@utoronto.ca
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Barbara Brophey
Senior Athletics Instructor, Gymnastics, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Coach, Gymnastics
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7381
Email: barb.brophey@utoronto.ca
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Beth Ali
Executive Director, Athletics and Co-Curricular Physical Activity, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Equity matters pertaining to sport and physical activity
- High Performance Sport Relationship Management – provincial and national
- Sport and Recreation facilities and services
- U of T’s varsity sports model
- University Sport and Recreation programming
- University-level sports
- USPORTS and OUA guidelines; policies and regulations
- Women in coaching
- Women in university sport
Office: 416-978-7379
Email: beth.ali@utoronto.ca
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Bruce Kidd
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athletes' rights in sport
- Canadian sport history
- History and politics of sport and the Olympics
- Human rights & anti-transgender discrimination
- Human rights in sports
- Inclusion in sport
- Olympics spectators & safety
Office: 416-459-8847
Home: 416-652-5195
Email: bruce.kidd@utoronto.ca
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Byron MacDonald
Head Coach of Swimming, Athletic Department, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Coaching olympic and high performance athletes
- Coaching technique and theory
- Intercollegiate swimming
- Olympic competition and commentary
Office: 416-978-7008
Email: byron.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Carl Georgevski
Head Coach, Track and Field, Varsity Blues
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-2991
Home: 905-477-2340
Mobile: 647-233-2340
Languages: Macedonian
Email: carl.georgevski@utoronto.ca
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Caroline Fusco
Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Genders; sexualities; the body and identities
- LGBTQ
- Post-colonial and feminist theories
- Poststructuralist theories
- Sexuality Issues in Sports and Physical Activities
- Social Justice Issues in Sports and Physical Education
- Sociology of Physical Activity and Health
Office: 416-946-7717
Email: c.fusco@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Sabiston
Professor, Department of Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Mental Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Body image and self-conscious emotions
- Breast cancer survivorship
- Cancer and exercise
- Emotional well-being
- Mental health
- Physical activity motivation
- Psychosocial oncology
Office: 416-978-5837
Mobile: 416-831-6543
Languages: French
Website
Email: catherine.sabiston@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Moore
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Disuse muscle wasting
- Exercise training adaptations
- Growth and development
- Muscle protein metabolism
- Protein requirements in athletes
- Skeletal muscle remodeling
- Sports nutrition
Office: 416-946-4088
Website
Email: dr.moore@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Santa Mina
Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical exercise program development; delivery; and evaluation
- Effects of exercise through the cancer continuum
- Prehabilitation for surgery and other treatments
Office: 416-978-1696
Email: daniel.santamina@utoronto.ca
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Dave Cooper
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athlete centred coaching
- Cricket and the History of cricket in Canada
- Globalization of sport
- Health and physical education in Ontario
- Health and physical education Teacher preparation in Ontario
- History of Canadian cricket
- Play practice and game sense
- Soccer
- Soccer – global and in Canada
- Sport coach education – national coaching certification program facilitator
- Squash
- Squash – global and in Canada
- Tactical Decision-Making in Sport
- Teaching games for understanding and game sense
- Teaching/Coaching pedagogy using teaching Games for understanding (TGfU)
Office: 416-978-4113
Home: 905-820-2167
Email: davidbcooper1952@gmail.com
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David Frost
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Sport and Exercise Biomechanics
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Acute and long-term adaptations to exercise
- Firefighter wellness and fitness
- Injury prevention
- Movement screening and evaluation
- Musculoskeletal health
- Occupational biomechanics
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Sport exercise
Office: N/A
Languages: English
Email: d.frost@utoronto.ca
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Doug Richards
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Medical Director, MacIntosh Clinic
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4678
Mobile: 416-996-2830
Email: doug.richards@utoronto.ca
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Gretchen Kerr
Vice Dean of Programs at the School of Graduate Studies
Professor, Athlete Maltreatment
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Abuse and harrassment in sport
- Changing climate in sport and coaching
- Coach Education
- coaches and parents of athletes)
- Psychological stress of athletes
- Retirement transitions of elite athletes
- Women in coaching
- Women in sports
Office: 416-978-7710
Mobile: 647-383-9910
Email: gretchen.kerr@utoronto.ca
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Ira Jacobs
Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Ergogenic aids
- Exercise physiology
- Heat stress and performance
- Hypothermia
- Nutrition and exercise performance
Office: 416-389-7637
Languages: Swedish, French, Hebrew
Website
Email: ira.jacobs@utoronto.ca
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Jack Goodman
Professor, Department of Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Adjunct Scientist, Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, UHN/MSH Division of Cardiology
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiac consequences of ‘excessive’ exercise
- Cardiac rehabilitation and effects on cardiovascular function
- Cardiovascular risks of exercise
- Effects of prolonged exercise on heart function
- Exercise and the risk of arrhythmias
- Exercise-related sudden death
Office: 416-978-6095
Mobile: 416-994-3451
Email: jack.goodman@utoronto.ca
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Katherine Tamminen
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Interpersonal relationships in sport
- Qualitative research methodology
- Sport psychology
- Stress; coping; and emotion
- Youth sport
- Youth sport & adolescent athletes
Office: 416-946-4068
Website
Email: katherine.tamminen@utoronto.ca
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Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos
Associate Professor, Department of Exercise Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-2725
Mobile: 289-380-1836
Email: kelly.arbour@utoronto.ca
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Kristine Drakich
University of Toronto Varsity Blues Women’s Volleyball Head Coach
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Beach volleyball
- Coaching technique and theory
- Volleyball events and techniques
- Women in coaching and sport
- Women in volleyball
Office: 416-978-4677
Mobile: 416-996-2829
Email: kristine.drakich@utoronto.ca
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Luc Tremblay
Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Associate Dean of Research, Sensorimotor Control
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Coaching
- Expert performance
- Feedback
- Gender differences
- Handedness
- High performance
- Imagery
- Online control
- Rehabilitation
- Senses/sensory
- Specifity
- Sport
- training
- Visualization
Office: 416-946-0200
Languages: French
Website
Email: luc.tremblay@utoronto.ca
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Lynda Mainwaring
Associate Professor, Department of Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Health psychology/rehabilitation psychology
- Performance and dance psychology
- Psychology of injury
- Sport psychology
- Sports concussion
Office: 519-969-6414
Website
Email: lynda.mainwaring@utoronto.ca
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Margaret MacNeill
Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Associate Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athletes' rights and relationships with the media
- Critical policy studies of public health
- Gender
- Health and physical literacy
- Health communication
- Interprofessional education and wellness studies
- Olympic media studies
- Olympic television production ethnographies
- Physical cultural studies of sport and fitness
- Race and active healthy living
Office: 416-978-0598
Email: margaret.macneill@utoronto.ca
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Michael Atkinson
Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Cross-Appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Illness; pain and suffering
- Invisible disabilities (epilepsy; insomnia; anxiety)
- Masculinity studies
- Qualitative research
- Sport and violence
Office: 416-978-7205
Email: michael.atkinson@utoronto.ca
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Michael Hutchison
Associate Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Director, Concussion Program, David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Concussion prevention and treatment
- Concussions in NHL hockey
- Concussions in university sport
- Return to play and return to learn principles
Office: 416-946-4050
Website
Email: michael.hutchison@utoronto.ca
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Michele Belanger
University of Toronto Varsity Blues Women’s Basketball Head Coach (Retd. 2020)
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7359
Email: michele.belanger@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Donnelly
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Changing nature of abuse in sports
- High risk sports
- Policy and politics
- Social issues in sports
- Sport
Office: 416-946-5071
Mobile: 905-617-6020
Email: peter.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Sandhya Mylabathula
Graduate student
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Concussion and head injury
- Health policy
- Injury prevention
- Nutrition
- Science communication
- Science outreach
Office: 647-378-8468
Mobile: 647-378-8468
Languages: French
Email: s.mylabathula@mail.utoronto.ca
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Sasha Gollish
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Intersection of coaching and teaching
- Road safety and vulnerable users
- Sports and Performance Engineering
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-729-3631
Website
Email: s.gollish@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Scott Thomas
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-519-6957
Website
Email: scott.thomas@utoronto.ca
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