Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Aleksandra Bjelajac Mejia
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Health Practitioner Teacher Education
- Pediatric pharmacy practice
Office: 416-978-4221
Languages: English,Serbian,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: sandra.bjelajac@utoronto.ca
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Alison Thompson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency Preparedness and Global Health Security
- Ethics and pandemics
- Ethics and public health
- Ethics and vaccines
- Prioritization of scare resources
- Professional ethics and pharmacy
- Public engagement
- Public health ethics
- Public understanding of risk and vaccination
- Social and ethics issues in health
Office: 416-978-8824
Website
Email: a.thompson@utoronto.ca
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Carolyn Cummins
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Glucocorticoids
- Nuclear receptors
- Stress hormones
Office: 416-946-3466
Home: 647-449-8859
Languages: English
Website
Email: carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca
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Christine Allen
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Drug delivery
- Drug formulation
- Materials science
- Nanotechnology
Office: 416-946-8594
Languages: English
Website
Email: cj.allen@utoronto.ca
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David R Hampson
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Adeno-associated viral vectors
- Autism
- Biological therapeutics
- Dravet syndrome
- Fragile X syndrome
- Gene therapy
- Neurodevelopmental disorder
- Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter receptors
- Treatment of central nervous system disorders
- Viral vectors
Office: 416-978-4494
Website
Email: d.hampson@utoronto.ca
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Heather Boon
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
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
Languages: English
Website
Email: heather.boon@utoronto.ca
Jack Uetrecht
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Adverse drug reactions
- Clinical pharmacology
- Toxicology
Office: 416-978-8939
Languages: English
Website
Email: jack.uetrecht@utoronto.ca
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James Tjon
Adjunct Lecturer, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Drug use and pharmacokinetics in paediatric nephrology and dialysis
- Drug use in medically complex children
Office: 416-813-7654, ext 228179
Email: james.tjon@sickkids.ca
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Jaris Swidrovich
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- 2SLGBTQ+ Issues/Health
- EDI (Equity/Diversity/Inclusion)
- HIV/AIDS
- Indigenous Peoples’ health
- Pain
- Status First Nations (Saulteaux) and Two Spirit person and the first and only Indigenous faculty member in pharmacy in Canada
Office: 416-946-5302
Languages: English
Website
Email: jaris.swidrovich@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Jeffrey Henderson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Cell death and repair
- CNS Injury/Repair
- CRISPR-mediated gene repair
- Embryonic stem cells
- Molecular neurobiology
- Regenerative medicine
Office: 416-946-3090, 416-946-5571
Languages: English
Website
Email: jeff.henderson@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Lake
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Collaborative practice
- Drug safety
- How pharmacies can prepare
- Integrated healthcare systems
- Interprofessional Healthcare
- Medication management
- Minor ailments
- Pharmacy practice
- Primary care
Office: 416-946-3095
Website
Email: jennifer.lake@utoronto.ca
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Jillian Kohler
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Corruption and fraud in the healthcare system
- Global health issues
- Good governance
- Patient protection and access to medicines and vaccines
- Pharmaceutical industry and ethics
- Pharmaceutical industry social responsibility
- Politics of health care
- Procurement of health products
- Transparency and accountability in vaccine development, equitable access to pharmaceuticals globally
- United Nations institutions
Office: 416-946-8708
Languages: English
Website
Email: jillian.kohler@utoronto.ca
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L. Lee Dupuis
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
- Clinical Practice Guideline Development and Implementation
- Pediatric pharmacy practice
- Supportive Care in Pediatric Cancer/Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Office: 416-813-7762
Website
Email: lee.dupuis@utoronto.ca
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Lisa McCarthy
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Ambulatory and primary care
- Elderly
- Geriatrics
- Health system care models
- Medication safety
- Older adults
- Pharmacist practice
- Pharmacy practice
- Polypharmacy
- Prescribing Cascades
Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: lisa.mccarthy@utoronto.ca
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Marisa Battistella
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Chronic kidney disease
- Clinical nephrology
- Dialysis
- Hemodialysis
- Medication optimization
- Nephrology
- Pharmacokinetics
Office: 416-340-4800 Ext. 3207
Languages: English
Website
Email: marisa.battistella@utoronto.ca
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Micheline Piquette-Miller
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Antiretroviral drugs
- Clinical pharmacology
- Drug disposition
- Drug transporters
- Infectious and Inflammatory Disease
- Maternal and fetal health
- Ovarian cancer
- Pharmacokinetics
- Placenta
- Pregnancy
- Women & Child Health
Office: 416-946-3057
Languages: English
Website
Email: m.piquette.miller@utoronto.ca
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Mina Tadrous
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Drug safety
- Evaluating drug policies
- Health services research
- Pharmaceutical Policy
- Pharmacy practice
- Post-marketing surveillance of medications
Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: mina.tadrous@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Muhammad Mamdani
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Drug Utilization and Outcomes Research
- Epidemiology
- Health economics
- Translating Research into Clinical Practice
Office: 416-866-3028
Languages: English
Website
Email: mamdanim@smh.ca
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Naomi Steenhof
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Chronic pain
- Geriatrics
- Opioids
- Pharmacy practice
- Teaching and learning in health professions
Office: 416-978-2341
Languages: English
Website
Email: naomi.steenhof@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Peter Pennefather
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Biophysics
- Digital health
- Global health
- Information
- Knowledge design
Office: 416-978-6607
Home: 416-461-0606
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: p.pennefather@utoronto.ca
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Peter Wells
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Drug-induced birth defects
- Drug-induced cancer
- Fetal oxidative stress in Fetal Alcohol and Autism
- Free radicals in neurodegenerative disease
- Methamphetamine effects on the fetus
- Oxidative stress in neurodegeneration associated with aging
- Risk factors for drug-induced diseases
- Spectrum Disorders (FASD and ASD)
- The role of the breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) protein in protecting fetal development
- Toxicology
Office: 416-9783221
Languages: English
Website
Email: pg.wells@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Robert Macgregor
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- DNA structure
- DNA-ligand interactions
- Kinetics
- spectroscopy
- Sterilization
- Thermodynamics
Office: 416-978-7332
Languages: English
Website
Email: rob.macgregor@utoronto.ca
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Sabrina Boodhan Teskey
Adjunct Lecturer, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- General Pediatrics
- Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology
- Pediatric pharmacy practice
Office: 416-813-7654 ext. 204413
Email: sabrina.boodhan@sickkids.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Sandy Pang
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Pharmacokinetics
Office: 416-978-8511
Website
Email: ks.pang@utoronto.ca
Sara Guilcher
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Health equity
- Health services and policy
- Multi-morbidity
- Quality improvement
- Rehabilitation
- Self-management
- Spinal cord injury
- System performance
- Transitions of care
Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: sara.guilcher@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Cadarette
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Osteoporosis
- Pharmacoepidemiology
Office: 416-978-2993
Languages: English
Website
Email: s.cadarette@utoronto.ca
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Tara Gomes
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Drug policy
- Drug Safety and Effectiveness
- Drug Toxicity Crisis
- Health services research
- Pharmacoepidemiology
Office: N/A
Website
Email: tara.gomes@utoronto.ca
Tim Corson
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- age-related macular degeneration
- drug discovery
- eye disease
- natural product
- neovascularization
- ophthalmology
- retinoblastoma
- target identification
Office: 416-978-5516
Website
Email: tim.corson@utoronto.ca
Vinita Arora
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Mental health pharmacotherapy
- Pharmacy professional practice
Office: 416-978-0187
Languages: English
Website
Email: vinita.arora@utoronto.ca
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Xiao Yu (Shirley) Wu
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Bioreactive nanoparticles for remodeling tumor microenvironment to enhance cancer therapies
- Blood-brain barrier-penetrating nanotechnology for diagnosis and therapy of brain cancer and CNS diseases
- Glucose-responsive device and microneedle patch for insulin and glucagon delivery
- Nanomedicine of synergistic drug combination for enhanced treatment of multidrug resistant and metastatic cancer
- Numerical simulation and molecular dynamic modeling for rational design of drug delivery systems for small molecules and biologics
Office: 416-978-5272
Languages: English
Website
Email: xywu@phm.utoronto.ca
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