Departments, Institutes, Centres and Other Units

Susan Armstrong

The breadth and depth of the Faculty of Medicine's activities are represented in its departments, centres and institutes. These include interdisciplinary research units that bring researchers together to address specific challenges and identify solutions. It also includes 26 departments that foster discovery, provide training and deliver answers to pressing questions in medical research and care. Through the websites listed below, you can learn more about these units, and more importantly, about the people who bring the ideas, energy and passions needed to do what can’t be done.

Departments

CHAIR & DEPARTMENT

CONTACT

DIRECTORIES

Beverley Orser 
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 

12th Floor, 123 Edward Street
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E2
Tel: 416.978.4307 | Fax: 416.978.2408

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Lea Harrington
Biochemistry 

Room 5207, Medical Sciences Building
1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.6892 | Fax: 416.978.8548

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Milos Popovic (Director)
Biomedical Engineering, Institute of 

Room 407, Roseburgh Building
164 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9
Tel: 416.946.0020 | Fax: 416.978.4317

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Danielle Martin 
Family and Community Medicine 

Suite 546, 500 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel: 416.978.6473 | Fax: 416.978.3912

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Jennifer Gommerman
Immunology 

Room 7203, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.2120

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Rita Kandel 
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology 

6th floor, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.2557 | Fax: 416.978.5959

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Laurie Ailles
Medical Biophysics 

Room 9-807, 101 College St.
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7
Tel: 416.634.8752

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Michael Patlas 
Medical Imaging 

4th Floor, 263 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W7
Tel: 416.978.6801 

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Mingyao Liu (Director)
Medical Science, Institute of 

Room 2374, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.946.7143 | Fax: 416.971.2253

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Gillian Hawker
Medicine 

C. David Naylor Building 
6 Queen's Park Crescent West, Third Floor, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H2
Tel: 416.946.8071 | Fax: 416.978.7230

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Tim Hughes
Molecular Genetics 

Room 4388, Medical Sciences Building
1 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.6116

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Richard Bazinet, Acting Chair
Nutritional Sciences 

Room 5253, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.2422 | Fax: 416.978.5882

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Kellie Murphy
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 

Suite 1200, 123 Edward Street
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E2
Tel: 416.978.2216

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Mary Forhan
Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy 

9th Floor, 500 University Avenue, Room 989
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel: 416.978.2766 | Fax: 416.946.7102

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Peter Kertes
Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences 

Kensington Eye Institute
340 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3A9
Tel: 416.416.928-2132 x 123

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Danny Enepekides
Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 

Suite 120, C. David Naylor Building, 6 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H2
Tel: 416.946.8742 | Fax: 416.946.8744

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Meredith Irwin
Pediatrics 

Room 1436, Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8
Tel: 416.813.6122

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Ali Salahpour 
Pharmacology and Toxicology 

Room 4207, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S1A8
Tel: 416.978.2723 | Fax: 416.978.6395

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Kara Patterson, Interim Chair
Physical Therapy 

Room 874, 8th Floor, 500 University Avenue, 
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel: 416.978.2769 | Fax: 416.946.8561

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Scott Heximer
Physiology 

Room 3207, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.2674 | Fax: 416.978.4940

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Benoit Mulsant
Psychiatry 

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health/Clarke Institute
Room 835, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8
Tel: 416.979.6948 | Fax: 416.979.6928

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Laura Dawson
Radiation Oncology 

5th Floor, Stewart Building, 
149 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P5
Tel: 416.978.4545 | Fax: 416.971.2110

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Angela Colantonio
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute 

Suite 160, 500 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel: 416.978.1789 | Fax: 416.946.8643

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Pascal van Lieshout
Speech-Language Pathology 

Room 1068, 10th Floor, 500 University Avenue, 
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel: 416.978.8332 | Fax: (416) 946-8634

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Carol Swallow
Surgery 

Suite 503, 149 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P5
Tel: 416.978.2623 | Fax: 416.978.3928

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Research Centres

RESEARCH CENTRE & DIRECTOR

CONTACT

DIRECTORY

Robert Paul
Ambulatory Care Education, Centre for

76 Grenville Street, Floor 2, Room 2442
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1B2
Tel: 416.323.6400 x 3019 | Fax: 416.323.6361

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Minna Woo
Banting and Best Diabetes Centre 

Toronto General Hospital - UHN
Eaton Wing, 12th Floor, Room 12E248
200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4
Tel: 416.978.4656 

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Jennifer Gibson
Bioethics, Joint Centre for 

155 College Street, Suite 754
Toronto, Ontario  M5T 1P8
Tel: 416.978.1395 | Fax: 416.978.1911

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Stephane Angers
Donnelly Centre for Cellular
and Biomolecular Research
 

160 College Street, Room 230,Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1
Tel: 416.978.8861 | Fax: 416.978.8287

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Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children

Room 2111, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
1 King's College Circle, Medical Sciences Building,
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8

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Latika Nirula
Faculty Development, Centre for 

Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Cente, St. Michael's Hospital
209 Victoria Street, 4th floor
Tel: 416.864.6060 x77412

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Global Institute for Psychosocial,
Palliative and End-of-Life Care

700 Bay Street, Suite 2303 
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z6

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TBC
Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre
for Cardiovascular Research
 

C. David Naylor Building
6 Queens Park Crescent West, Room # 321
Toronto, ON M5S 3H2

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Stella Ng
Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) 

University of Toronto/Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst Street, Nassau Annex
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8
Tel: 416.603.5800 x 2577 | Fax: 416.603.5580

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Deborah O'Connor (Acting Director)
Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre
for Child Nutrition
 

Room 5269, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416.978.8112

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Esme Fuller-Thomson
Life Course and Aging, Institute for

246 Bloor St. W., Room 238
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V4  
Tel: 416.978.0377

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Stephen Scherer
McLaughlin Centre 

Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
686 Bay Street, 13th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4
Tel: 416.813.7613 | Fax: 416.813.8319

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Medical Psychiatry Alliance

 

 

Brian Wong
Quality Improvement and
Patient Safety, Centre for
 

Sunnybrook Health Sciences
2075 Bayview Ave., Room H4 66
Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5
Tel: 416.480.6100, ext. 83709

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Graham Collingridge
Tanz Centre for Research
in Neurodegenerative Diseases
 

Tanz Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Krembil Discovery Tower, 60 Leonard Avenue,
4th Floor - 4KD481, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8
Tel: 416.507.6840 | Fax: 416.507.6435

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Mansoor Husain
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

661 University Avenue, 14th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1M1

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Noufissa Kabli

Toronto Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Consortium

Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A8

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Tarek K. Rajji
Toronto Dementia Research Alliance

 

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Atul Humar
Transplantation Institute 

Toronto General Hospital
University Health Network, NCSB-11-1236
585 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4
Tel: 416.340.5166 | Fax: 416.340.3378

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Cynthia Whitehead
Wilson Centre for Research in Education 

Toronto General Hospital
1st floor, 1-559 Eaton South Wing
200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4
Tel: 416.340.3079 | Fax: 416.340.3792

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    Other Units

    UNIT & DIRECTOR

    CONTACT

    DIRECTORY

    Anthony Gramolini
    Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Specialization

    263 McCaul St, P.O. Box 3C, 4th Floor, Rm 413
    Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W7
    Tel: 416.978.0746

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    Zhong-Ping Feng
    Collaborative Specialization in Neuroscience

    Medical Sciences Building
    1 King's College Circle
    Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
    Tel: 416.978.8637

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    Edward Shorter
    History of Medicine 

    263 McCaul Street
    Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W7
    Tel: 416.978.5256

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    Stephanie Nixon 
    International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation 

    Rehabilitation Sciences Centre, 8th Floor
    500 University Avenue at Dundas Street West
    Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
    Tel: 416.946.3232

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    Sharon Straus
    Knowledge Translation Program 

    Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
    St. Michael's Hospital,209 Victoria Street
    Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8
    Tel: 416.864.6060 x3068

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