Translational Medicine Graduate Faculty

Dr. Anne Ellis

Graduate Program Director

Immunology
Molecular Biology
Allergy

Dr. Mark Ormiston

Graduate Program Co-Director, TMED 800 Course Chair

Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine
Pulmonary Hypertension
Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines, Immunotherapy, Leukocytes, Angiogenesis, and Cell Signaling research

Dr. Stephen Archer

Cardiology
Pulmonary Hypertension
Cardiovascular Diseases

Dr. Yuka Asai

Dermatology
Immunology, Inflamation and Infectious Disease
Allergy

Dr. David Berman

High impact cancer tests for bladder and prostate cancer
Discovery and evaluation of novel biomarkers and therapeutic targets

Dr. Mackenzie Bowman

TMED 802 Course Chair

Genetics of Inherited Bleeding Disorders

Endothelial cell models to study Inherited Bleeding Disorders

Dr. Che Colpitts

Graduate Program Committee Member

Virus-host interactions, focusing on positive-sense RNA viruses such as Flaviviridae (hepatitis C virus and dengue virus) and Coronaviridae (HCoV-229E and SARS-CoV-2).

Dr. DJ Cook

Translational Stroke research
Pre-clinical Validation of Stroke Therapy
Neuroplasticity and Stroke Recovery

Dr. Chris Cotton

Microeconomics

Public and Development Economics

Labour, Health, Education and Welfare

Dr. Kerstin de Wit

Intracranial bleeding and pulmonary embolism.

Dr. Geneviève Digby

Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare, particularly in terms of efficient resource utilization, timeliness of care, guideline adherence, and QI education

Dr. Nicolle Domnik

Respirology
Cardiopulmonary physiology
Exercise and sleep influence breathing for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

Dr. Kimberly Dunham-Snary

Mitochondrial genetics and dynamics
Cardiovascular diseases
Mollecular and cellular biology

Dr. Jennifer Flemming

Hepatology
Gastroenterology
Epidemiology

Dr. Laura Gaudet

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Vulnerable Populations

Dr. Katie Goldie

Nursing

Palliative care

Evaluation of health services

Epidemiology

Systematic reviews

Dr. Nader Ghasemlou

Translational Pain Research
Neuroimmunology
Circadian Biology

Dr. Timothy Hanna

Health technology assessment
Global oncology
Cancer therapy
Malignant melanoma
Non-melanoma skin cancer

Dr. Charlie Hindmarch

Genomics
Transcriptomics and Molecular Medicine

Dr. Paula James

Deputy Department Head of Medicine

Hematology
Bleeding Disorders

Dr. Paul Kubes

Immunophysiology and Immunotherapy
Real-time imaging of the immune system

Dr. Durjoy Lahiri

Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, biomarkers and emerging treatments.
Post-stroke cognitive disorders, more specifically, aphasia.

Dr. David Lillicrap

Pathology & Molecular Medicine
Molecular Hemostasis

Dr. Chris McGlory

Cellular and molecular mechanisms
Muscle proteins
Metabolism
Nutrition
Physiology

Dr. Don Maurice

Biomedical and Molecular Medicine
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Pharmacology

Dr. Daniel Mulder

Pediatric gastroenterology
Immunophenotyping techniques for IBD patients

Rheumatology
Identifying novel therapeutic targets and disease-specific markers for inflammation and new bone formation in SpA using techniques such as spatial gene mapping and single-cell analysis for immune cells and stromal cells.

Dr. Lynne Marie Postovit

Head, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences

Ovarian Cancer
Cancer Biology and Epigenomics

Dr. Jamie Purzner

General Neurosurgery
Neurooncology

Dr. Teresa Purzner

Graduate Program Committee Member

General Neurosurgery
Neurooncology

Dr. Doug Quilty

Pulmonary Hypertension
Immune Mediators: Cytokines and Chemokines, Immunotherapy, Leukocytes, Angiogenesis, and Cell Signaling research

Dr. Michael Rauh

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
Myeloid innate immunity

Dr. David Reed

Graduate Program Committee Member

Gastroenterology

Dr. David Rodrigues

GI motility disorders (such as achalasia and gastroparesis), disorders of gut-brain interaction (such as functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome).
Medical Education
Qualitative and quantitative research methodology