Health sciences

Haji, Faizal

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health care safety and quality improvement; Surgical Education; Global Surgery; Simulation in Healthcare; Health Professions Education; Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Hassan, Eman

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Population health interventions; Access and quality of palliative and end of life care; Quality of end of life; Population health outcomes

Havaei, Farinaz

School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Nursing; factors that influence nurses’ ability to provide effective patient care; health human resource optimization

Hayden, Michael

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Diabetes; Disease progression; Drug development; Gene Therapy; Genetic Diseases; Huntington disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurodegenerative disorders

Henderson, Sarah

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality

Hirani, Saima

School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Mental health nursing; Social sciences; mental health; Mental health promotion; psychosocial interventions; Vulnerable Groups; social support; resilience

Hossin, Zakir

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Maternal and child health; Social and perinatal epidemiology; Life course epidemiology

Houghton, Kristin

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Health sciences; pediatric rheumatology, exercise and physical activity, knee injury

Huan, Tao

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Analytical spectrometry; Metabolomics; Separation science; Cancer progression and metastasis; Human nutrition and metabolism; Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics

Hung, Lillian

School of Nursing, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Geriatric nursing; Medical and biomedical engineering; Impact of technology and environment on the care experiences of persons with dementia; dementia education; quality improvement; Participatory action research

Hunt, Michael

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis; biomechanics; exercise; Joints (Articulations); musculoskeletal; Musculoskeletal Deformation; Neuromuscular Diseases; Orthoses and Prostheses; Physical Activity; rehabilitation

Huot, Suzanne

Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Occupational therapy; Human geography; asylum seekers; bilingualism; community-engaged research; critical theory; francophone minority communities; francophones; french; Gender; immigration; intersectionality; Migration Studies; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; occupational science; Qualitative research; refugees; social inclusion; social integration; Platform economy

Iyamu, Ihoghosa

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Population health interventions; Health promotion and disease prevention; Global health; Mobile health (mHealth)

Janssen, Patricia

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Public and population health; Gestation / Parturition; health of marginalized women; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; maternal child health; mobile health for pregnancy and parenting; Perinatal Period; social determinants of health

Jarus, Tal

Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Disciplinary education; art-based research; disabled practitioners;; Disabled students;; diversifying health and human service professions; Justice and equity in health professions

Jeavons, Roxanne

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Jenstad, Lorienne

School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other health sciences; hearing aids; Aging; audiology; hearing health; amplification

Jessri, Mahsa

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Community Health / Public Health; Epidemiology; Nutrition; Health Policies; Lifestyle Determinants and Health; Health Promotion; Health Prevention; Statistics and Probabilities; Preventive Medicine; Artificial Intelligence; Chronic Disease Prevention; clinical epidemiology; Dietary Assessment; Dietary Pattern Modeling; Dietetics; Machine Learning; Nutritional Epidemiology; predictive analytics; Public and Population Health; Simulation

Kalua, Khumbo

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population health interventions; Infectious diseases; Global health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases; Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials; Implementation Science; International Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials

Karakochuk, Crystal Dawn

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Hematology; Biochemical markers of iron status; Clinical dietetics; Determinants and causes of anemia; Inherited blood disorders (sickle cell, thalassemia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency); International nutrition; Maternal and child nutrition; Micronutrients (namely iron, folic acid, and zinc); Risk-benefit of micronutrient supplementation

Karim, Ehsan

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biostatistical methods; Survey methodology and analysis; Statistical learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Public and population health, n.e.c.; Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis

Killikelly, Clare

Faculty of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Other health sciences; Psychological trauma and related clinical interventions; prolonged grief disorder; cultural contrast; psychotherapeutic intervention; e mental health

Kim, Eric

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health psychology; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); psychological well-being; Purpose in life / Meaning in life; resilience; Optimism / Hope; Health Psychology; Social Epidemiology; Aging

Kobor, Michael

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics

Lalji, Fawziah

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Pharmacoepidemiology; Infectious diseases; Immunization; Antibiotics and Resistance; Vaccine preventable diseases

Lam, Tania

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sensorimotor physiology; Kinesiology; Physical therapy; Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases)

Lamers, Yvonne

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins

Lansdorp, Peter

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Application of single cell Strand-seq in precision medicine; Applied Genetics; cellular aging; Cellular Degeneration; Cellular Division; Complex Trait Genetics; DNA replication, epigenetics and stem cells; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genetic Diseases; Stem Cells and Organogenesis; telomeres; Telomeres, genomic instability, aging and cancer

Lavallee, Danielle

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Patient and citizen engagement research; Health systems; patient-oriented research; Patient-Reported Outcomes

Law, Michael

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Global Health; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Health Policies; Health Policy; Observational studies; Pharmaceutical policy; Pharmacoeconomics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Program evaluation

Leavitt, Blair

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Alzheimer's disease; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Ataxia; Dementia; Experimental Therapeutics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Gene regulation; Gene Silencing and Gene Editing; Gene Therapy; Huntington disease; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Medical Genetics; Mouse models of disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurogenetics

Lefebvre, Louis

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Health counselling; Developmental Genetics; developmental epigenetics; Embryonic Development; Gene Regulation and Expression; genomic imprinting; genomics; germ cell biology; Molecular Genetics; mouse developmental genetics; placental biology; Transgenic Model

Li, Linda

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Patient and citizen engagement research; Patient-centered care; Mobile health (mHealth); Health counselling; Health promotion and disease prevention; Physical therapy; Care

Lima, Viviane Dias

Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Aging process; Population health interventions; Health promotion and disease prevention; HIV; Aging; Epidemiology; Statistics; mathematical modelling

Liu-Ambrose, Teresa

Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Healthy Aging; exercise; Fall prevention; Cognitive Aging; Randomized Controlled Trials; Physical Activity; Mobility; Neuroimaging; Sleep

Livingstone, Roslyn

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Occupational therapy; Children with non-ambulant cerebral palsy; Positioning and mobility assistive devices

Locke, David

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Physical therapy; Persistent pain; Conditioned pain modulation; Clinical applications of pain science; Axillary cording; Axillary Web Syndrome; Respiration and its impact on body and mind

Loewen, Peter

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; atrial fibrillation; Pharmacoepidemiology; Thrombosis and Embolism; adherence to medication; Cardiovascular diseases; Arrhythmia; Heart Failure; stroke; Health Care Technologies; Professional Practices; Hematology; decision making; clinical prediction rules; healthcare communication technologies; hospital pharmacy practice; knowledge translation of evidence to patient care; patient complexiometry; patient decision aids; patient education; pharmacy practice; prediction of stroke and bleeding in atrial fibrillation patients; quality of care, quality drug therapy; Shared decision-making; stroke prevention therapy; use of mobile technology for clinical decision-making

Lorincz, Matthew

Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Genetic medicine; Developmental Genetics; genomics; chromatin; chromatinopathies; Epigenetics; Epigenomics; Gene regulation; Neurodevelopmental disorders

Lunken, Genelle

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Clinical nutrition; Human nutrition and dietetics, n.e.c.; Gastroenterology; Personalised nutrition therapies; Dietary fibre; Inflammatory bowel disease; Gut microbiome; Food additives

MacAskill, Don

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Health services and systems; Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; paediatric audiology, paediatric hearing loss and balance function; Innovative practice; Leadership

Malhotra, Nisha

Faculty of Arts

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Sex and gender-based analysis; Economics of international development; Health care access, privilege or marginalization; Health and gender based violence; Women health; Global Health; Health Care Access; Maternity Care Evaluation; Gender based studies; Global trade and trade remedy measures

Manges, Amee

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health sciences; Immunology; Microbiology; Public and population health; Epidemiology; Molecular epidemiology; Public health

Masse, Louise

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health care administration; Health sciences; Public and population health; Childhood obesity with specific interests in prevention and treatment using lifestyle modification; Films, Membranes and Multiphase Polymers; Health Promotion; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical Activity

McDonald, Daniel

Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

High dimensional data analysis; Computational methods in statistics; Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Methods and models for epidemiological forecasting; Estimation and quantification of prediction risk; Evaluating the predictive abilities of complex dependent data; Application of statistical learning techniques to time series prediction problems; Investigations of cross-validation and the bootstrap for risk estimation

McKay, Heather

Department of Family Practice, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Population health interventions; Aging process; Social and biological determinants of aging; Health promotion and disease prevention; Prevention, treatment and support of youth health; Medical, health and life sciences; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Health and community services; Aging Process; Public and Population Health

McKendry, James

Food, Nutrition & Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Musculoskeletal biology and physiology; Health promotion and disease prevention; Aging process; Human nutrition and metabolism; Nutritional physiology; Clinical nutrition; Exercise physiology; Sports nutrition; Kinesiology; Skeletal Muscle; Protein metabolism; Aging; Nutrition; exercise; Sarcopenia; Protein; Muscle Disuse; Stable Isotope Tracers; Omics; Cell Culture; Microscopy

Middleton, Georgia

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Public health nutrition policy; Children and families; Parenting and caregiving; Food and eating environments; Food insecurity; Shared eating occasions; Qualitative methodology and methods

Miller, William

Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Occupational therapy

Milloy, Michael-John

Division of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Infectious diseases; Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; medical cannabis; overdose; HIV disease; people who use drugs; Substance use disorder