FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
Nav Persaud is the Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and staff physician at St Michael’s Hospital. His main interest is interventions that promote health equity or fairness and he leads the CLEAN Meds trial of free essential medicine distribution.
Reto M. Baertschiger joined the Division of General and Thoracic Surgery in August 2019 with a special interest in paediatric surgical oncology and liver tumor treatment and research. Reto Baertschiger was appointed as a Scientist-Investigator in the Genetics & Genome Biology Program at the SickKids Research Institute. He started his lab under the mentorship of Dr. David Malkin, senior scientist and oncologist, and studies the micro-environment of paediatric liver tumors and the interaction of the native liver, its stroma and the tumor environment. He joined the IMS faculty as associate member in the Fall 2019. 6 |
Dr. David Gomez is an acute care and trauma surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital and a Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. He is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Surgery as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. His research interests include the evaluation of enablers and barriers of access to timely and quality emergency surgery.
Ewan Goligher MD PhD is a clinician-scientist in the Department of Medicine, University Health Network and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network. His laboratory studies mechanisms of lung and diaphragm injury from mechanical ventilation in the clinical setting and develops and tests interventions to prevent these injuries with the goal of accelerating liberation from mechanical ventilation and reducing long-term disability after critical illness.
Dr. Stephanie Lheureux is a clinician investigator focusing on how to improve the care of women
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diagnosed with gynecological cancers by developing effective treatment options that are founded upon a strong understanding of disease biology. She is the principal investigator of different clinical trials with an emphasis on translational research. Dr. Alfonso Fasano is a Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Neurology) at the University of Toronto. He is staff neurologist and co-director of the Surgical Program for Movement Disorders at Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario, Canada. He is also a Clinician Investigator at the Krembil Research Institute and at KITE – Toronto Rehabilitation Hospital, both in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Fasano leads the Core E (closed-loop capabilities) of the CenteR for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA).
Jacob Vorstman is a child psychiatrist and works as a clinician scientist at SickKids. His ambition is to further insights into the genetic architecture underlying neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia, as well as to improve methods to measure human behavior.
Melanie Penner, MD MSc FRCP(C) is a developmental paediatrician at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation
