By: Anna Badner
Dr. John (Jack) Coleman Laidlaw was a practicing Endocrinologist, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, advisor to World Health Organization, and among many others, an innovative force in graduate education.
Coinciding …
By: Melissa Galati
Dr. Alan Bernstein, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR), once wrote in a Globe and Mail article, “If Canada’s game is hockey, it’s science is stem cells” (1). When …
By: Lindsay Caldarone
Compassionate physician, brilliant researcher, and devoted mentor; while entirely accurate, these descriptions do not begin to do justice to Dr. Pamela Catton’s legacy. Her illustrious career, the changes she implemented within the Institute of Medical Science (IMS) …
Frederick H. Lowy, OC, MD, FRCPC
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Director, Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
Dean of Medicine (1980-1987), Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Former Member, Institute of Medical …
By: Petri Takkala
Joel D. Cooper, MD, FACS
Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Former Clinician-Scientist, Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, …
Josiane C.S. Mapplebeck
BSc, Third year PhD Student, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Salter
Chief of Research, Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, Institute of Medical Science and Faculty of Dentistry
By: Kasey Hemington
When you meet …
Author: Annette Ye
For most Institute of Medical Science (IMS) students, you probably won’t meet Sarah Topa until the end of your degree—but Sarah has been there since the beginning (hint: she plans Student Orientation). Sarah is the most recent …
Author: Katherine Schwenger
Faculty featured: Brenda B. Toner, PhD, C. Psych
Faculty Affiliations: Professor, Department of Psychiatry, IMS Member
As I seated outside the office waiting for my interview with Dr. Brenda Toner, I started to become anxious, as I …
Authors: Justen Hoffman Russell BSc, Joseph Mathew Antony PhD, and Kelly S. MacDonald MD FRCPC
Affiliation: Director, HIV Research Program, Mount Sinai Hospital and University Health Network; Departments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Toronto, IMS Member
With several million …
By Ayda Ghahremani
Acknowledgments: I wish to thank Dr. Paula Ravitz, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto, for her help in reviewing this article.
Mental illness is a serious public health issue with considerable impacts on individual …
