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    YORK FACULTY APPOINTED TO GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HEALTH
   

AHMAD, Farah

(Assistant Professor; PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension:  33898;  Email:  farahmad@yorku.ca;  Address:  Room 414, HNES Building;  Website/CV:   here
   

DALY, Tamara

(Assistant Professor;  PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 30522;  Email: dalyt@yorku.ca;  Address: Room 411, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here

Gender and health; health care work; comparative health policy, and the role of health care non-profits.
   

DINCA, Serban

(Associate Professor;  PhD, University of Bucharest)

Extension: 33186; Email: serband@yorku.ca; Address: Room 415, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here
   

GINSBURG, Liane

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 33925; Email: lgins@yorku.ca; Address: Room 413, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here
   

GORMAN, Rachel       

(Assistant Professor; PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 30523     Email: gorman@yorku.ca     Address: Room 407, HNES Building;  Website/CV: here

   

Political economies of disability; Disability Arts and Culture movements; postcolonial and dialectical materialist approaches to understanding the social organization of disability; disability in the context of nationalisms, transnational imperialism, and national liberation; internationalist and anti-capitalist approaches to global healthcare provision.
   

HALIFAX, Nancy
(Assistant Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 22653    Email: nhalifax@yorku.ca     Address: Room 408, HNES Building    Website/CV:  here

The body and representation; feminist theory; gender; knowledge translation; social determinants of health; social justice; qualitative and arts-informed research.

Nancy Halifax
   

LEXCHIN, Joel

(Professor: MD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 22119. Email: jlexchin@yorku.ca; Address: Room 420, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here

 

Health policy, physician prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical promotion and the drug approval process, globalization.

   

LUM, Lillie

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 20037; Email: lum@yorku.ca; Address: Room 423, HNES Building;    Website/CV:  here
   

RAPHAEL, Dennis

(Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 22134; Email: draphael@yorku.ca; Address: Room 418, HNES Building;  Website/CV: here

Human development, social determinants of health, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians' health and well-being.


   

REAUME, Geoffrey

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 22058; Email: greaume@yorku.ca; Address: Room 416, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here

 

Mad people's history; history of people with disabilities; medical history; psychiatric patients' labour history; archiving psychiatric survivor and disability histories; labels, terminology, activism and self-identity among psychiatric survivors/consumers; connecting the past with contemporary social justice struggles.

   

RIOUX, Marcia H.

(Professor: PhD, University of California, Berkeley)

Extension: 22112; Email: mrioux@yorku.ca; Address: Room 410, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here

 

International human rights and monitoring, the social and legal construction of inequality, theory of critical disability, education for all, globalization, social welfare and social justice, health equity, social policy and diversity.


   

TSASIS, Peter

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 22171; Email: tsasis@yorku.ca; Address: Room 421, HNES Building;  Website/CV: here
   

WIKTOROWICZ, Mary

(Associate Professor: PhD, University ofToronto)

Extension: 22124; Email: mwiktor@yorku.ca; Address: Room 425, HNES Building;  Website/CV:  here

 

Comparative health policy including mental health sector restructuring, the regulation of pharmaceuticals and the role of interest groups in shaping health policy.

   

YORK FACULTY CROSS-APPOINTED TO GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HEALTH

   

ADELSON, Naomi

(Associate Professor: PhD, McGill University)

Extension: 55367; Email: nadelson@yorku.ca; Address: Room 135, Founders College;  Website/CV:  here

 

Anthropology of the body; Concepts of Health; Indigenous health; social suffering; health disparities; gender and stress, biotechnologies and the body.
   

AN, Aijun

(Associate Professor: PHD, University of Regina)

Extension: 44298; Email: aan@cse.yorku.ca; Address: Room 2048 Computer Science & Engineering Building; Website/CV:  here

   

ANTZE, Paul

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Chicago)

Extension: 77094; Email: pantze@yorku.ca; Address: Room 128, McLaughlin College

 

Cultural aspects of therapeutic movements, especially in connection with psychoanalysis, psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, memory, dissociation and the addictions.

A C.V. is downloadable from here

   

ARMSTRONG, Pat

(Professor: PhD, Carleton University, Ottawa)

Extension: 22550; Email: patarmst@yorku.ca; Address: Room 2118 Vari Hall;  Website/CV:  here

   

CHUANG, You-Ta

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 66615; Email: ychuang@yorku.ca; Address: Room 233 Atkinson College

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

COE, Imogen 

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Victoria, British Columbia)

Extension: 55243; Email: coe@yorku.ca; Address: Room 246A, Farquharson Building

 

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CYSNEIROS, Luiz Marcio  

(Associate Professor: PhD, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Extension: 33886; Email: cysneiro@yorku.ca; Address: Room 2053 TEL Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

DAVIES, Megan

(Associate Professor: PhD, McGill University, Toronto)

Extension: 33812; Email: daviesmj@yorku.ca; Address: Room S704A, Ross Building

 
   

FLICKER, Sarah

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 20728; Email: flicker@yorku.ca; Address: Room 287, HNES Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

GILMOUR, Joan

(Associate Professor: PhD, Stanford University, California)

Extension: 55561; Email: jgilmour@osgoode.yorku.ca; Address: Room 323, Osgoode Hall Law School  Website:  here

 

Bioethics, disability and the law, health law, legal governance of health care, privatization and health care reform, legal regulation of alternative health care, professional regulation of health care practitioners, torts, civil procedure, equality rights and discrimination, feminist legal analysis.

   

GRYZ, Jarek

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Maryland, College Park)

Extension: 70150; Email: jarek@cse.yorku.ca; Address: Room 3026, CSE Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

GRACE, Sherry

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Windsor)

Extension: 22364; Email: sgrace@yorku.ca; Address: Room 368, Bethune College;  Website/CV:  here
   

HUANG, Xiangji

 (Associate Professor: PhD, City University, London UK)

Extension: 30149; Email: jhuang@yorku.ca; Address: Room 3048, TEL Building

  

A C.V. can be viewed here: http://www.yorku.ca/jhuang/irlab/publications.php
   

HYNIE, Michaela

(Associate Professor: PhD, McGill University,Toronto)

Extension: 22996; Email: mhynie@yorku.ca; Address: Room 5021D, TEL Building

 

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IRVINE, Jane

(Associate Professor: PhD, Oxford University, United Kingdom)

Extension: 22444; Email: jirvine@yorku.ca; Address: Room 128A, Behavioural Science Building

 

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JACOBS, Lesley

(Professor: PhD, Oxford University, United Kingdom)

Extension: 20430; Email: jacobs@yorku.ca; Address: Room S730A, Ross Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

JENSEN, Elsabeth

(Assistant Professor: PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan)

Extension: 21023; Email: ejensen@yorku.ca; Address: Room 325, HNES Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

KHANLOU, Nazilla

(Associate Professor: PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton)

Extension: 20166; Email: nkhanlou@yorku.ca; Address: Room 345, HNES Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

LOEPPKY, Rodney

(Associate Professor: PhD, York University,Toronto)

Extension: 30085; Email: rloeppky@yorku.ca; Address: Room S631, Ross Building

  

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MAWANI, Amin

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Waterloo)

Extension: 58072; Email: amawani@yorku.ca; Address: Room S349, Seymour Schulich Building

 

Non-Financial Performance Indicators: QALYs, ICERs, Wait Times; Financial Performance Measures, Cost Analysis, Management Control Systems, Incentive Systems.
   

MENSAH, Joseph

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton)

Extension: 66344; Email: jmensah@yorku.ca; Address: Room 320 Founders College Residence

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

NG, Peggy

(Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 77167; Email: peggyng@yorku.ca; Address: Room 274, Atkinson College

 

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PEARLMAN, Ronald

( Professor Emeritus;  PhD, Harvard University, USA)

Extension: 55241; Email: ronp@yorku.ca; Address: Room 242, Farquharson Building

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RILSTONE, Paul

(Professor: PhD, University of Western Ontario, London)

Extension: 416-318-5806; Email: pril@yorku.ca; Address: Room 1032 Vari Hall

 

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ROSENBERG, Harriet Gail

(Associate Professor: PhD, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan)

Extension: 77827; Email: hrosenbe@yorku.ca; Address: Room S705, Ross Building

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SAFAI, Parissa

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 23040; Email: psafai@yorku.ca; Address: Room 335, Bethune College
   

SAUNDERS, Richard 

(Associate Professor: PhD, Carleton University, Ottawa)

Extension: 88834; Email: rsaunder@yorku.ca; Address: Room S639, Ross Building

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

SCHRAA, Ellen 

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension: 30139; Email: schraa@yorku.ca; Address: 314, Atkinson College

   

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SHEN, Jung-Chin 

(Assistant Professor: PhD, INSEAD Business School, Europe)

Extension: 22494; Email: jcshen@yorku.ca; Address: Room 256, Atkinson College

 

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SKINNER, Harvey

(Professor: PhD, University of Western Ontario, London)

Extension: 55031; Email: healthdn@yorku.ca; Address: Room 444A, HNES Building

 

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SMITH, Miriam 

(Professor: PhD, Yale University, USA)

Extension: 33581; Email: mcsmith@yorku.ca; Address: Room S735, Ross Building

   

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STRUTHERS, Ward 

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)

Extension: 66476; Email: struther@yorku.ca; Address: Room 238 Behavioural Science Building

   

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

SWEENEY, Gary

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Glasgo, Scotland)

Extension: 66635; Email: gsweeney@yorku.ca; Address: Room 110 Farquharson Building

 

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THOMSON, Kelly 

(Assistant Professor: PhD, York University - SSB, Toronto)

Extension: 20126; Email: thomsonk@yorku.ca; Address: Room 150, Atkinson College

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

TREGUNNO, Deborah

(Associate Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Extension:22037; Email: tregunno@yorku.ca; Address: Room 355, HNES Building

 

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VOSKO, Leah

(Associate Professor: PhD, York University, Toronto)

Extension: 33157; Email: lvosko@yorku.ca; Address: Room 044C, Atkinson College

 
   

WARING, Duff

(Associate Professor: PhD, York University, Toronto)

Extension: 33522; Email: dwaring@yorku.ca; Address: Room 2065, TEL Building

 

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WEIR, Lorna 

(Professor: PhD, York University,Toronto)

Extension: 33198; Email: lweir@yorku.ca; Address: Room 310, Founders College
   

WU, Jianhong

(Professor: PhD, Hunan University, China)

Extension: 33116; Email: wujh@yorku.ca; Address: Room N613, Ross Building

  

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

ZIMMERMAN, Brenda

(Associate Professor: PhD, York University -SSB, Toronto)

Extension: 33357; Email: bzimmerman@schulich.yorku.ca; Address: Room N316, Seymour Schulich Building

 

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    ADJUNCT FACULTY
   

BERTA, Whitney

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of Toronto)

Telephone: 416-946-5223; Email: whit.berta@utoronto.ca;    Address: 155 College St. Suite 425

A C.V. is downloadable from here

  
   

FREW, Sarah

(Research Associate: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Telephone: 416-673-6568; Email: info@mrcglobal.org;   Address: 101 College Street; Suite 406

 

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LIGHT, Donald

(Professor: PhD, Waltham, Brandeis University, Massachusetts)

Telephone: 856.566.6296; Email: dlight@princeton.edu;  Address: Stratford/Camden

 

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LIPPMAN, Abby

(Professor: PhD, McGill University, Montreal)

Telephone: 514-398-6266; Email: abbyl@epid.lan.mcgill.ca;   Address: Purvis Hall

  

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MORGAN, Steven

(Assistant Professor: PhD, University of British Columbia)

Telephone: 604-822-7012; Email: morgan@chspr.ubc.ca;   Address: Rm 201, 2206 East Mall - UBC

 

A C.V. is downloadable from here
   

TENN-LYN, Nicole

(Lecturer: M.D., McMaster University)

Email:  ntennlyn@gmail.com

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Dr. Nicole Tenn-Lyn