FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
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Dr. Dimitri Anastakis is a Professor of Surgery. He is a member of the School of Graduate Studies, IMS, and the Krembil Research Institute. Dr. Anastakis is studying cold sensitivity in patients with compression neuropathies and, in partnership with Dr. Karen Davis, structural and functional cortical changes following peripheral nerve injury, repair and rehabilitation.
Dr. Mohammad Akbari is an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and a scientist at Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital. His research interest is in studying genetic susceptibility to cancers, including breast, ovarian, esophageal, pancreas and prostate cancers.
Dr. Ryan Brydges studies two broad areas: (i) clarifying how healthcare trainees manage their lifelong learning, and (ii) understanding how to optimize the instructional design of healthcare simulation for training and assessment. He’s a Scientist and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UofT, and holds a Professorship in TechnologyEnabled Education at Unity Health Toronto.
Dr. Corinne Fischer is a staff psychiatrist with the Mental Health Service at St. Michael’s Hospital, Associate Scientist, Co-director of neurodegenerative research at Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Her major research focus is the interface between psychosis and neurodegeneration.
Dr. George Ibrahim is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Sick Kids and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the IMS, and the Dept. of Surgery. His interests include the surgical treatment of medically intractable epilepsy, spasticity and functional disorders in children and the study of neural networks in children with epilepsy and functional disorders by combining connectomic, computational neuroscience and machine learning approaches.
Dr. Jennifer Jones is the Butterfield Drew Chair in Cancer Survivorship Research and the Director of the Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship Program at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. In addition, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (primary) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at University of Toronto.
Dr. Farzad Khalvati is the Endowed Chair in Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Hospital for Sick Children. His research in Intelligent Medical Image Computing Systems (IMICS) Lab focuses on the design and development of AI-driven diagnostic and prognostic solutions for different diseases, including cancer, with the goal of delivering precision medicine to patients.
Dr. Istvan Mucsi (MD, PhD) is a clinician investigator, transplant nephrologist (University Health Network) and Associate Professor of Medicine (UofT). His research focuses on equitable access to kidney transplant for patients from racialized communities. He is also building an electronic patient reported outcome measure platform for transplant recipients.
Dr. Mark Sinyor is a Psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. His research focuses are suicide prevention and mood disorders and he is the founder of PROGRESS (the Program of Research and Education to Stop Suicide).
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