To give background that may help in your search for a supervisor or for inspiration regarding topic areas, please find below a list of previous supervisors, their home departments, and a brief description of topics covered by students taking a Project Course.
Supervisor Name | Supervisor Department/Institution | Topic Area (or department if not listed) |
Anastasios Papanastasiou | Economics | Health Economics |
Alexander Leung | Emergency Dept. | Emergency Medicine |
Alison Holloway | Biochemistry | Biochemistry |
Aliya Khan | Medicine Geriatrics/Endocrinology | Metabolic Bone Disease |
Aly-Khan Lalani | Medical Oncology | Oncology |
Anil Kapoor | Surgery | Renal Carcinoma |
Anthony Rullo | Pathology and Molecular Medicine; McMaster Immunology Research Centre; Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Biochemistry, Immunology, Chemical Biology |
Ashkan Shoamanesh | Medicine | Cerebrovascular Disease |
Brian Timmons | Pediatrics | Pediatrics |
Bruce Wainman | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Research in Health Education |
Caitlin Mullarkey | Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences (Bacheor of Health Sciences) | Virology |
Catherine Demers | Medicine | Heart failure and self care |
Chelsea Mackinnon | Bacheor of Health Sciences | Music & Health Sciences, Program Review, Continuing Support Models |
Christine Wekerle | Pediatrics | Gender and Health |
Darren Bridgewater | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Renal Pathology |
Darryl Leong | Medicine | Multi-Morbidity and Prostate Cancer Therapy |
David Faraoni | Anesthesiology | Blood Coagulation |
David Meyre | Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact | Epidemiology |
Deborah Sloboda | Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences | Maternal and fetal physiology |
Denice Feig | Medicine | Endocrinology |
Dennis Hong | General Surgery | Evidence based medicine |
Derek Little | Medicine | Gastroenterology |
Diana Golubeva | Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | Stem Cell Biology |
Dominik Mertz | Medicine | Infectious Diseases Epidemiology |
Anand Swaminath | Radiation Oncology | Post-radiation treatment outcomes in oncology |
Elmar Gardizi | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences | Psychotic Spectrum Disorders |
Geoff Werstuck | Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | Atherosclerosis and Diabetes |
Lauren (Warren) Foster | Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Reproductive Biology |
Micheal Fielden | Surgery; Opthalmology | The project takes place at the intersection between endocrinology and opthalmology |
Neeraj Narula | Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology | Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
Sarah McDonald | Obstetrics & Gynecology; Radiology; Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact | Obstetrics & Gynecology |
Vincenzo Basile | Medicine; Neurology | Hyper-acute Stroke Neurology |
Elizabeth Alvarez | Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact | Public Health |
Elizabeth McCready | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Molecular Oncology |
Emily Schaeffer | Orthopaedics | DDH and genetics |
Eric Seidlitz | Bacheor of Health Sciences | Pain perception; music therapy; health information translation; salutogenic design |
Francis Couturaud | Pulmonology and Internal Medicine | Venous Thromboembolism |
Gail Gauvreau | Medicine | Asthma |
Gelareh Zadeh | Surgery | Neuroscience |
Geoff Werstuck | Medicine | Diabetes/CVD |
Ghazaleh Kazemi | Oncology | Oncology |
Greg Curnew | Medicine | Clinical |
Guillaume Pare | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Stroke Genetics – Population Health |
Gurmit Singh | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | In vitro Study |
Hartley Jafine | Arts and Science; Bachelor of Health Sciences | Program evaluation of a visual arts program for at-risk youth |
Herbert Brill | Pediatrics | Gastroenterology |
Herman Johal | Orthopaedics | Orthopaedics |
Hongjin Sun | Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour | Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour |
Ivana Furimsky | Forensic Psychiatry | Forensic Psychiatry |
James Paul | Anesthesia | Evaluating Effectiveness of Post-Operative Analgesia (Anesthesia) |
James Mahony | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Pathology and Molecular Medicine |
Jan Huizinga | Medicine | Gastroenterology |
Jeffrey Dickhout | Medicine, Nephrology | Nephrology |
John Connolly | ARiEAL Research Centre | Neuroscience |
John Paul Oliveria | Medicine, Division of Respirology | Immunology |
John Shams | Pharmacy | Compound Pharmacy |
Jonathan Adachi | Medicine | Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis |
Jonathan Schertzer | Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | Metabolic Diseases |
Julian Christians | Biological Sciences | Reproductive biology |
Karen Bailey | Surgery | Trauma, Pediatric General Surgery |
Karen Beattie | Medicine | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus |
Katholiki Georgiades | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences | The effect of diversity in elementary schools on prejudice and related attitudes |
Kien Trinh | Family Medicine | Sports Medicine, Doping, Systematic Review |
Kourosh Sabri | Surgery | Paediatric Eye Research |
Larkin Lamarche | Family Medicine | Body image |
Lauren (Warren) Foster | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Reproductive Biology |
Manel Jordana | Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Food Allergy |
Mark Crowther | Medicine | Hematology |
Mark Duffett | Pediatrics | Pediatrics |
Mark Tarnopolsky | Pediatrics | Physiology / Aging |
Matthew Sibbald | Health Sciences | Educational Research |
Michael Zappitelli | Nephrology | Nephrology |
Michel P. Rathbone | Medicine | Concussion; Literature Review |
Michele George | Classics | The Roman mother, infant health, the Roman diet, nutritional deficiencies in the Empire |
Mihir Bhatt | Pediatrics | Hematology and Thrombosis |
Miroslav Lovric | Mathematics and Statistics | Research into Conceptualization of Health Numeracy and Creation of an Online Learning Tool |
Mohit Bhandari | Surgery | Orthopaedic Surgery |
Nikhil Pai | Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition | Microbiome in celiac disease |
Noel Chan | Medicine | Thrombosis and vascular medicine |
Olufemi Ayeni | Orthopaedic Surgery | Orthopaedics |
Pablo Serrano | Surgery | Colorectal Cancer and Liver Metastases |
Pasqualina Santaguida | Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact | Clinical Epidemiology – Systematic Reviews |
Paul Keith | Medicine | Clinical Immunology & Allergy |
Philip Boll | Clinical Nephrology | Clinical Nephrology |
Premysl Bercik | Medicine | Gastroenterology |
Rachael Finnerty | Music | Literature review, data collection, reflections |
Radhey Gupta | Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences | Biochemistry, Comparative Genomics |
Ramesh Zacharias | Anesthesia | Cannabis, Chronic Non-Cancer Pain |
Reuven Dukas | Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour | Psychology – Animal Behaviour |
Richard Whitlock | Cardiac Surgery | Epidemiology |
Ronald Vender | Medicine, Division of Dermatology | Dermatology |
Russell deSouza | Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact | Epidemiology |
Ryan Van Lieshout | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences |
Sandeep Raha | Pediatrics | Perception of muscle soreness |
Sheila Sprague | Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics | Prevalence of inter-partner violence (IPV) and traumatic brain injuries |
Shenglan Tang | Pop. Health Science, Duke Medical School; Duke Global Health Institute; Duke-Kunshan University, China | Primary and Secondary Prevention Interventions for Lung Cancer and Breast Cancer |
Shuoyan Ning | Medicine | Hematology – Evidenced Based Practice |
Stephen Russell | Classics | Classics |
Subodh Verma | Cardiac Surgery | Cardiovascular research |
Suzanna Becker | Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour | Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour |
Tessa Elliott | Surgery | Pediatric General Surgery, Trauma |
Tracy Lovett | Indigenous Services Canada | Indigenous Health |
Vivian Lee | Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience | Child Mental Health and Inclusion |
Zeinab Hosseini-Doust | Chemical Engineering | Medical Microbiology |