Diabetes

Carolyn Cummins

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
• Department
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Glucocorticoids
• Nuclear receptors
• Stress hormones

Office: 416-946-3466
Home: 647-449-8859
Website
Email: carolyn.cummins@utoronto.ca
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David Jenkins

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Nutrition and Metabolism, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Blood lipid metabolism
• Cardiovascular disease
• Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Dietary carbohydrates (sugars
• Dietary fiber
• EcoAtkins Diet
• Glycemic index
• Insulin resistance and obesity
• Nutrition and health eating
• Portfolio diet
• starch
• triglycerides

Office: 416-978-4752
Email: cyril.kendall@utoronto.ca
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Khosrow Adeli

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

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

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

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
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Lawrence Alan Leiter

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Medicine
  • Nutritional Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Cholesterol
• Diabetes

Office: 416-867-7441
Email: lawrence.leiter@utoronto.ca
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Xiaolin Wei

Professor, Division of Clinical Public Health

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Centres
  • Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation

Areas of Expertise

• Antibiotic resistance
• Diabetes
• Health outcome evaluations
• Primary care
• Public health consultant
• Screening in airports
• Tuberculosis

Office: 416-978-2020
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca
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