Health Care

Anthony Chow, MD

Professor Emeritus

Division of Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases, emerging and re-emerging, epidemiology, public health, diagnosis and treatment, superbugs, animal models of infection, microbial pathogenesis, new drug discovery, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, toxic shock syndrome, superantigens, host immunity, defences

James Wright, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)

Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Medicine

Co-Managing Director and Chair, Therapeutics Initiative

Prescription drugs, evidence-based medicine, high blood pressure, drug trials

Annalee Yassi, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Professor

Director, Global Health Research Program

Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Capacity Building

Occupational health, health of health workers, international health, global health, community-based research, capacity building, Latin America, evidence-based best practices, workplace injury and illness prevention, HIV and TB prevention and care for health workers, South Africa

Kevin Gregory-Evans, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCOphth

Professor

Eye, retina, stem cells, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt’s disease, Best’s disease, x-linked retinoschisis, electroretinography

Dr. Gary Redekop, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Head

Dept. of Surgery

Neurosurgery, cerebrovascular disease, stroke, epilepsy,

Edmond Chan, MD

Head, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Dept. of Pediatrics

Clinical Associate Professor

Food allergy, eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma, allergies, allergens

Paul Kershaw, PhD

Associate Professor

Child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social care, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism

Prof. Maura MacPhee, RN, PhD

Professor

Healthcare delivery, quality and safety, program evaluation, nurses’ work environments,

Jason Barton, MD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Human Vision and Eye Movement

Face perception, object recognition, eye movements, higher visual function

Larry Lynd, BSP, PhD

Professor

Director, Collaboration of Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)

Health economics, orphan drugs, pharmaceutical policy, respiratory medicine, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, rare diseases

Nick J. Carr, MD

Clinical Professor

Head, Division of Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, reconstructive surgery

Dr. Leonard Foster, PhD

Professor

honey bees, proteomics, host-pathogen interactions, vaccines, mass spectrometry, honey, varroa,

Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN

Professor and Director

SOGI education, LGBTQ2S+ health, adolescent health, nursing, public health nursing, trans and non-binary youth, homeless youth, stigma and discrimination, youth sexual health, youth mental health, adolescent substance use,

Anita Palepu, MD

Professor and Program Director, Clinical Investigator Program

Urban health, addiction, HIV, medical editing, editorial independence, homelessness

Michael Curry, LLB/JD, MD, CCFP(EM), FCLM, FCFP

Clinical Associate Professor

Emergency medicine, emergency room, emergency doctor, emergency physician, stroke, heart attack, trauma, accident, illness, influenza, superbug, MRSA, E coli, medicolegal, medical legal, medical law, legal medicine, medical ethics, health care ethics, malpractice, ethics, doctor, coronavirus,

Michael Byrne, MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology, pancreatic and biliary disease, H. pylori, therapeutic endoscopy, ERCP

James Johnson

Professor

diabetes and related conditions, obesity, heart disease, fatty liver, pancreatic cancer, insulin (how it’s controlled and how it works)

Kenneth Fung

Clinical Associate Professor

Healthcare policy

Amin Kanani, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Allergy, asthma, hay fever, hives, food allergy, anaphylaxis, primary immunodeficiency

Joanne Matsubara, PhD

Professor

aging, brain dysfunction, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, eye disease, blindness, glaucoma, neurodegeneration, visual cortex, retina, brain, Alzheimer’s eye