Temerty Faculty of Medicine
A. Jose Lanca
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Herbal medications
- Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter receptors
- Pharmacology of alcoholism and drug addiction
Office: 416-864-8230
Home: 416-620-7998
Mobile: 416-830-8313
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Website
Email: aj.lanca@utoronto.ca
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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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Abraham Snaiderman
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emotional and behavioral issues following neurological illnesses/injuries
- Neuropsychiatry of anxiety disorders
- Neuropsychiatry of brain injury
- Neuropsychiatry of multiple sclerosis
- Neuropsychiatry of seizure disorders
- Neuropsychiatry of stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
Office: 416-597-3422, ext. 3769
Mobile: 416-562-3843
Languages: Spanish
Email: a.snaiderman@utoronto.ca
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Adam Pyle
Lecturer

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: adam.pyle@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Adelle Atkinson
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Chair – Education, Department of Paediatrics

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-813-5293
Email: adelle.atkinson@sickkids.ca
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Allan S. Kaplan
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Senior Clinician Scientist, Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-535-8501, ext 4980
Mobile: 416-876-3773
Email: allan.kaplan@utoronto.ca
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Ana Andreazza
Professor
Associate Member, Institute of Medical Science
Scientific Director, Mitochondrial Innovation Initiative; Canada Research Chair in Molecular Pharmacology of Mood Disorders; Thomas C. Zachos Chair in Mitochondrial Research
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6042
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Email: ana.andreazza@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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Anna Banerji
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Heart inflammation in youth
- COVID-19 - Helped with SARS as an infection disease specialist
- COVID-19 - Infection & vaccination rates in children
- Health of Syrian refugees
- Health policy
- Indigenous health
- International health
- Inuit health
- Mitigating health risks after natural disasters
- Potential for viral infections & water-borne diseases
- Refugee health
- Tropical medicine / infectious disease
- Why is there a spike in refugees needing assistance
Office: 416-978-8319
Email: anna.banerji@utoronto.ca
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Barry Pakes
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nunavut
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Arctic and Inuit health
- COVID response
- Global health
- Global health ethics
- India COVID-19 crisis
- Pandemic influenza
- Primary care
- Public health
- Public health education
- Public health ethics
- Testing barriers and asymptomatic patients
- Tobacco control
- Vaccinology
Office: Not Available
Mobile: 647-328-5567
Website
Email: barry.pakes@utoronto.ca
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Barry Sessle
Professor, Faculty of Dentistry
Professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416- 946-3742
Email: barry.sessle@dentistry.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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Bernard Zinman
Professor
Senior Investigator, Senior Scientist Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Epidemiology and clinical trials related to diabetes
- Metabolic control/long-term effects of diabetes
- New therapies for diabetes
Office: 416-586-8747
Email: zinman@lunenfeld.ca
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Beverley Orser
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Physiology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anesthetics
- Cognitive deficits
- Delirium
- Electrophysiology
- Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter receptors
- Neuroscience
- Patient safety
Office: 416-978-0574
Website
Email: beverley.orser@utoronto.ca
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Blake Woodside
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-904-2909
Home: 416-222-2904
Languages: French
Email: b.woodside@utoronto.ca
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Bojana Stefanovic
Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Alzheimer's disease
- Functional MRI
- Neurovascular unit
- Stroke recovery
- Traumatic brain injury imaging
- Two photon fluorescence microscopy
Office: 416-480-5726
Website
Email: bojana@sri.utoronto.ca
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Boris Steipe
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-7741
Home: 416-534-7803
Languages: German
Email: boris.steipe@utoronto.ca
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Brendan Frey
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Autoimmune diseases
- Bayesian networks
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Computational biology
- Computational medicine
- deep learning
- Exome
- Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
- Genetics of cancer
- Genome
- Genomics
- Machine learning
- Neural networks
- Pancreatic cancer
- Parkinson's
- spinal muscular atrophy
- Whole genome sequence
Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
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Brian Murray
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-480-6100 x2461
Email: brian.murray@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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Carles Muntaner
Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Employment conditions; precarious employment
- Global Health in Europe; Latin America; and the United States
- Philosophy of epidemiology and public health
- Politics; welfare state; and social protection
- Social class; racism; ethnicity; and gender
- Social inequalities in health
Office: 416-978-5502
Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French
Website
Email: carles.muntaner@utoronto.ca
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Carol Greenwood
Professor Emerita, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4261
Home: 416-785-2500 ext. 2785
Email: carol.greenwood@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Birt
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-480-5882
Email: c.birt@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Coolens
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Associate Professor ,Department of Medical Biophysics and Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-4501
Email: catherine.coolens@rmp.uhn.ca
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Chandrakant Shah
Professor Emeritus
Hon. Staff Physician, Anishnawbe Health

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal cultural safety
- Aboriginal health
- Disability in aboriginal people
- Ethno-racial diversity in health care
- FASD and criminal justice system
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Indigenous/Aboriginal health
- Poverty and health
- Spirituality and health
- Unemployment and health
Office: 905-990-5111
Mobile: 437-992-5111
Languages: Gujarati
Email: c.shah@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
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Actin cytoskeleton and STED microscopy
- Biology of connective tissues involving supporting tissues of teeth
- Calcium signaling and ratio fluorimetry
- Flow cytometry and sorting of fibroblast populations
- 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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Cindi Morshead
Professor, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Chair, Division of Anatomy

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-5575
Website
Email: cindi.morshead@utoronto.ca
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Claude Tousignant
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cardiac critical care
- Cardiovascular anesthesia
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Emergency care and critical care
- Transesophageal echocardiography
Office: 416-864-5071
Languages: French
Email: cp.tousignant@utoronto.ca
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Clifford H. Posel
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-480-6100
Email: cliff.posel@utoronto.ca
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Conor McDonnell
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Creative Writing in Health and Humanities
- Medication safety
- Opioid safety and stewardship
- Pediatric anesthesia
- Tenfold drug error
Office: 416-813-7445
Email: conor.mcdonnell@sickkids.ca
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