FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
New IMS Faculty Dr. Frank Rudzicz (PhD) is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, Director of AI at Surgical Safety Technologies, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, faculty at the Vector Institute, and CIFAR Chair in AI. His work in machine learning, natural language processing, and surgical safety has appeared in Scientific American, Wired, the New York Times, and Nature.
Dr. Linda Hiraki (MD, FRCPC, SM, ScD) is a Clinician-Scientist in the Division of Rheumatology and Scientist in Genetics & Genome Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children. Hiraki holds a Canada Research Chair in Genetics of Rare Systemic Inflammatory Diseases. She coordinates multicentre studies of lupus and rare diseases.
Dr. Joshua D. Rosenblat (MD, MSc, FRCPC) is a psychiatrist and clinicianscientist at Toronto Western Hospital. He conducts multi-site clinical trials evaluating novel, rapid-acting interventions for depression and bipolar disorder (e.g., ketamine, psilocybin). He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles and has received numerous local, provincial and federal grants for his research.
Dr. Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan (Reg. PT, BScPT, MSc., PhD) the lead of the KITE Clinics is a clinician scientist who studies quantification of neurological disease and aims to discover new techniques for neuro-restoration. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and trained 8 masters and PhD students. Dr. Kalsi-Ryan is an extramurally funded midcareer scientist with a passion to contribute to the transformation of rehabilitation. resistant mental illnesses.
Dr. Julia Orkin is the Medical Director of the Complex Care program at SickKids and an Associate Professor, University of Toronto. She is the Medical Officer for Integrated Community Partnerships focused on system integration. Her research focuses on innovations in care delivery for children with medical complexity and their families.
Dr. Sindhu R Johnson (MD PhD) is a Rheumatologist, Clinical Epidemiologist and Director of the Toronto Scleroderma Program. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Clinician-Scientist at the Toronto Western and Mount Sinai Hospitals. Her program of research includes observational cohort studies and randomized trials of novel therapeutics for the treatment of the Scleroderma spectrum of disorders.
Dr. Mrinalini Balki (MBBS, MD) is a staff anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a professor in the Dept of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Physiology at the University of Toronto. She is also a Senior Clinician Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and is a director of Fellowship program in Clinical and Basic Science in Obstetric Anesthesia. She has published over 100 peerreviewed articles and has mentored over 60 postgraduate students and fellows in research projects. Prof. Balki has received numerous research grants, awards and lectureships throughout her career.
Dr. Sunita Singh (MD, MSc, FRCPC) is a transplant nephrologist and clinician-investigator in the Division of Nephrology at the Toronto General Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is also the medical director of the living kidney donation program at the Ajmera Transplant Centre. Dr. Singh’s research interests are focused on cardiorenal protection in kidney transplant recipients, and the evaluation and follow-up of living kidney donors. autism diagnoses extend beyond childrens’ three years of age? Future research might aim to answer this question by performing a longitudinal study.
Dr. Eyal Cohen (MD, MSc, FRCPC) co-founded the Complex Care program at the Hospital for Sick Children where he is Program Head of Child Health Evaluative Sciences and Co-Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Prof. Cohen has published over 165 peer-reviewed manuscripts and enjoys mentoring research trainees in graduate studies and research fellowships.
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