IMS Faculty Highlights

Dr. Shannon Lange is an independent scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at CAMH. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research involves the application of advanced statistical techniques in the understanding of suicidal thoughts and behaviours in relation to alcohol use.

Dr. Nicholas Neufeld is a psychiatrist (Early Psychosis Unit) and scientist (Kimel Family Translational Imaging-Genetics Laboratory) at CAMH. His research focuses on severe mental illness across the lifespan with an emphasis on brain imaging to obtain biomarkers of treatment trajectories and response.

Dr. Fa-Hsuan Lin is a professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics and IMS. Their research focuses on the development and application of human neuroimaging (MRI, EEG) and neuromodulation (TMS) methods and the translation of these cutting-edge tools to neuroscience studies and clinical applications.

Dr. Danielle Baribeau is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with a clinical focus in autism, neurogenetic disorders, and psychopharmacology. As a clinician scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute, she leads a research program focused on clinically translating genetic advances into improved mental health care in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Dr. Aristotelis Kalyvas is a staff neurosurgeon (surgical neuro-oncology and skull base surgery) at Toronto Western Hospital and an assistant professor at the Department of Surgery. His research focus is on structural brain connectivity, brain mapping, and clinical research/surgical clinical trials on brain, skull base and pituitary tumors.

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi is a general internist and clinician scientist. He is also a senior adjunct scientist at ICES. He has extensive experience in translating research to policy and has co-led large multi-method studies, His research interests include the delivery of health services to marginalized populations.

Dr. Lorne Zinman is an associate professor of medicine and an associate scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute. His research focuses on the development of more reliable diagnostic and pharmacodynamic biomarkers in ALS to test the most promising therapeutics.

Dr. Siba Haykal is a surgeon-investigator at UHN and the Toronto General Hospital. Her clinical focus is on complex oncological reconstruction and microsurgical reconstruction of the breast, head and neck and extremity. Her research focuses on tissue-engineered techniques for tracheal reconstruction and the immunology of vascularized composite allotransplantation.

Dr. Sloane Freeman is a pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Univerity of Toronto. She has expertise in the care of the medically complex child and child development. She is the lead for the REACH School Network, a program bringing health care to at-risk schools.

Dr. Rachel Vanderlaan is a cardiovascular surgeon at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her lab focuses on the role of mechanotransduction in pulmonary endothelial biology, with a special interest in pulmonary vein stenosis. In addition to laboratory work, she is the co-director of the PVS Network registry study.

Dr. Katharine Dunlop is a scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Her research uses TMS, neuroimaging and multivariate methods to develop biomarkers of treatment response and suicide risk in depression.

Dr. Helen Dimaras is an associate professor and the Director of Global Health in the Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research lies at the intersection of global health, cancer genetics and patient engagement.