Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

LMP: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Medicine

Degree Programs

Laboratory Medicine

MHSc

Fields:
- Clinical Embryology;
- Pathologists' Assistant

Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology

MSc and PhD

Translational Research in the Health Sciences

MHSc

Combined Degree Programs

MD / PhD

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Biomedical Engineering
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Cardiovascular Sciences
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Developmental Biology
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Genome Biology and Bioinformatics
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, PhD
Musculoskeletal Sciences
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Neuroscience
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Resuscitation Sciences (admissions have been administratively suspended)
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD
Toxicology
- Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, MSc, PhD

Overview

As part of the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology offers unparalleled access to more than 350 expert faculty including basic scientists, pathobiologists, laboratory physicians, and scientists; outstanding case material; a stunning array of research opportunities; diverse training sites; engaging student-run organizations.

Research Foci

Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and Mechanisms
Bone and Connective Tissue Diseases including Disorders of Mineral Metabolism
Cancer Pathogenesis and Prevention Cardiovascular Disease
Cell-Matrix Interactions
Development: Cell Cycle, Differentiation, Signalling Diabetes
Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Disorders
Hematopathology and Transfusion Medicine
Immunopathology and Transplantation
Inflammatory Disorders
Lipid Disorders
Lymphatic Pathobiology
Microbial Pathogenesis
Molecular Biomarkers
Neurodegenerative Disorders
Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Protein Structure and Function
Toxicology
Translational Research
Vascular Cell Biology
Viral Diseases

For details, consult the departmental website.

Contact and Address

Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Program

Web: www.lmp.utoronto.ca
Email: lmp.grad@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-2663
Fax: (416) 978-7361

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
University of Toronto
Medical Sciences Building
Room 6209, 1 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Canada

Translational Research in the Health Sciences Program

Web: trp.utoronto.ca
Email: trp@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-4474

University of Toronto
Old Administration Building
263 McCaul, Room 120
Toronto, ON, M5T 1W7
Canada

LMP: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Abdelhaleem, Mohamed - MSc, MBCHB, PhD

Adeli, Khosrow - DipChem, MSc, PhD

Andrulis, Irene - BA, PhD

Aubert, Isabelle - BSc, PhD

Bapat, Bharati - BSc, MSc, PhD

Barber, Dwayne - BSc, PhD

Bartlett, John M.S. - PhD

Bendeck, Michelle - BSc, PhD

Boggs, Joan - MSc, PhD

Branch, Donald - BA, BSc, PhD

Bremner, Roderick Angus - BSc, PhD

Brown, Martha - BSc, MSc, PhD

Buchan, Alison - BSc, MASc, PhD

Chandran, Vinod - MBBS, PhD

Coburn, Bryan - BSc, DrMed

Cole, David - BSc, MD, PhD

Connelly, Philip - BA, PhD

Cutz, Ernest - MD

Cybulsky, Myron - MD

Dabdoub, Alain - BSc

Das, Sunit - DrMed

Delabie, Jan - MD, PhD

Dennis, James - PhD

Diamandis, Eleftherios - BSc, MD, PhD

Diamandis, Phedias - BS, MD, PhD

Dirks, Peter Benjamin - MD, PhD

Done, Susan - BA, MA, MBA, BCh, MB, PhD

Drucker, Daniel - MD

Elsholtz, Harry - BSc, MSc, PhD

Epelman, Slava - MD, DrMed

Fish, Jason - BSc, PhD

Ginsberg, Howard - BSc, LRCP, MD, PhD

Girardin, Stephen - BSc, PhD

Gladdy, Rebecca - DrMed, PhD

Goldenberg, Anna - PhD, PhD

Gopalkrishnan, Rahul - PhD

Gotlieb, Avrum - BSc, MDCM

Grynpas, Marc - MSc, PhD

Gupta, Neeru - BM

Hamel, Paul - BSc, PhD

Hamilton, Robert - BSc, MD, PhD

Harrison, Rene - BS, MS, PhD

Hawkins, Cynthia - MD, PhD

Hazrati, Lili-Naz - BSc, MSc, MD, PhD

Hedley, David - MD

Hegele, Richard - MD

Hinek, Aleksander - MD, PhD

Hu, Jim - BSc, PhD

Huang, Annie - MD

Husain, Mansoor - MB, MD

Hwang, David - BSc, MD, PhD

Irwin, David - BSc, PhD

Jamieson, Frances - MD

Joshi-Sukhwal, Sadhna - BSc, MSc, DSc, PhD

Jothy, Serge - MSc, MD, PhD

Juvet, Stephen - DrMed, PhD

Kain, Kevin - MD

Kalia, Lorraine - BSc, MD, PhD

Kalia, Suneil - BSc, MD, PhD

Kamel-Reid, Suzanne - BA, MA, PhD

Kandel, Rita - MD (Chair and Graduate Chair)

Kapoor, Mohit - BPhm, MSc, PhD

Keating, Armand - BSc, MD

Khokha, Rama - BSc, MSc, PhD

Kovacs, Gabor - MD, PhD

Laflamme, Michael - BS, MD, PhD

Lee, Jeffrey - BSc, PhD

Levy, Gary - BSc, MD

Licht, Christoph - MD

Lingwood, Clifford - BSc, PhD

MacParland, Sonya - BS, MS, PhD

Marsden, Philip - MD

Mazzulli, Tony - MD

McCulloch, Christopher - BSc, DDS, PhD

McGeer, Allison - BSc, MSc, MD

McKerlie, Colin - DVSM, DVM

McLaurin, Joanne - BSc, MSc, PhD

Mekhail, Karim - BSc, PhD

Mitchell, Jennifer - DSc

Mogridge, Jeremy - BSc, PhD

Moriarty, Tara - BA, BSc, PhD

Ni, Heyu - MSc, MD, PhD

O'Brien, Catherine - BSc, MSc, DrMed, PhD

Ohh, Michael - BSc, PhD

Opas, Michal - MSc, PhD

Ostrowski, Mario - MD

Post, Martin - PhD

Poutanen, Susan - MPH, MD

Pritzker, Kenneth - BSc, MD

Prud'homme, Gerald - MD

Radovanovic, Ivan - MD, PhD

Rajalakshmi, Srinivasan - BSc, MA, PhD

Rand, Margaret - BSc, PhD

Richardson, Susan - BSc, MDCM

Robbins, Clinton Shane - BS, PhD

Robertson, Janice - BSc, PhD

Rogers, Ian - MSc, PhD

Rosenblum, Norman - MD

Rozakis-Adcock, Maria - BSc, PhD

Rutka, James - BSc, LMCC, MD, PhD

Saleeb, Rola - MBCHB, PhD

Schmitt-Ulms, Gerold - BSc, MSc, DrRerNat

Schuurmans, Carol - PhD

Scott, James - BSc, PhD

Seth, Arun - MS, PhD

Shaw, Patricia - SB, MD

Sherman, Philip - MD

Shlien, Adam - BS, PhD

Strauss, Bradley - MD

Swallow, Carol - BA, MD, PhD

Szaszi, Katalin - MD, PhD

Taylor, Michael - BSc, DrMed, PhD

Templeton, Douglas - BSc, MD, PhD (Coordinator of Graduate Studies)

Tenenbaum, Howard - DipPerio, DDS, PhD

Thorner, Paul - MD, DPhil

Tsao, Ming-Sound - BSc, MD

van der Kwast, Theodorus - MD, PhD

Wallace, Valerie - BSc, PhD

Wang, Bo - BS, MS, PhD

Wang, Chen - MD, PhD

Wilson, Gregory - MSc, MD

Wong, Amy - BS, MS, PhD

Yang, Burton - BSc, MSc, PhD

Yousef, George - MSc, MD, PhD

Yucel, Yeni - MD

Yuen, Darren - BSc, MD, PhD

Zacksenhaus, Eldad - PhD

Zhang, Li - MSc, MD, PhD

Members Emeriti

Butany, Jagdish - MBBS, MS

Marks, Alexander - MD, PhD

Shek, Pang - BSc, MSc, PhD

Yeger, Herman - BSc, MScPhm, PhD

Associate Members

Allen, Vanessa G. - BA, MD

Antoniou, Tony - BScPhm, DP, PhD

Ball, Christopher - BA, BSc, BSc, MBBS, MEng

Bayani, Jane - BSc, MHSc, PhD

Berman, Hal K. - MD, PhD

Bowman, Kerry - BA, BSW, MSW, PhD

Cabanero, Michael - BA, MD

Chan, Gabriella - PhD, JD

Chang, Hong - MSc, MD, PhD

Changoor, Adele - BS, MS, PhD

Chau, Janet - BSc

Chen, Haiying - BCS, MS, BM

Conner, James - AB, MD, PhD

Dmetrichuk, Jennifer - BS, MBCHB, PhD

Downes, Michelle - MD

Fattouh, Ramzi - BS, PhD

Ferenbok, Joseph - PhD, PhD

Gandhi, Rajiv - BSc, MSc, PhD

Gauda, Estelle - MD

Ghaffar, Hasan - BSc, MD

Grealish, Martin - BTech, MTech

Greenfeld, Elena - MD, PhD

Gubbay, Jonathan B. - BSc, MSc, MBBS

Hamilton, Scot - BS, MS, PhD

Harji, Farhana - BSc, MSc

Hsu, Ying-Han (Roger) - BSc, MSc, MD

Hurtig, Mark - MSc, DVM

Jung, Benjamin - BS, MS, PhD

Keating, Sarah - MSc, MD

King, Ian - AB, PhD

Kingdom, John - DipCH, MB, MD

Konvalinka, Ana - DrMed

Krutikov, Konstantin - PhD

Kulasingam, Vathany - BSc, PhD

Kuznyetsova, Iryna - BSc

Lerner-Ellis, Jordan - BS, PhD

Leventis, Peter - BSc, MSc, PhD

Li, Ren-Ke - MHSc, MSc, MD, PhD

Lu, Fang-I - MD

Marshall, Christian - BS, PhD

McKee, Trevor D. - BSc, PhD

Melano, Roberto - MSc, PhD

Mirham, Lorna - MBCHB

Moraes, Theo - MD

Mubareka, Samira - MD

Munoz, David - MSc, MD

Ng, Dominic - MD

Nofech-Mozes, Sharon - MD

Noor, Abdul - BS, MPH, PhD

Ong Tone, Stephan - LMCC

Paprica, Alison - DSc

Pasic, Maria - BS, PhD

Pavenski, Katerina - BSc, MD

Philpott, Dana - BS, PhD

Pickup, Michael - BS, MS, MD

Pollanen, Michael - BSc, MD, PhD

Raphael, Simon - MEd, MD

Richard-Greenblatt, Melissa - BSc, PhD

Riddell, Robert - LMCC, LRCP, MBBS

Sakhdari, Ali - MSc, MD

Seidman, Michael - BA, MPH, MD, PhD

Selvaratnam, Rajeevan - BS, PhD

Sherman, Christopher - BSc, MD

Siddiqui, Iram - MS, MBBS

Smith, Stephen - BS, MD

Snelgrove, John - BSc, MSc, MD

Somers, Gino - MBBS, BMedSc, PhD

Spears, Melanie - BS, PhD

Stavropoulos, Dimitri James - BSc, MSc, PhD

Stockley, Tracy - BSc, PhD

Sue-Chue-Lam, Ian - BSc

Sung, Hoon-Ki - MS, MD, PhD

Tadros, Manal - MS, MBCHB, PhD

Tein, Ingrid - MD

Tsoi, Kim - BASc, MD, PhD

Tsui, Hubert - BSc, MD, PhD

Tsui, William - MSc

Visanji, Naomi - BS, PhD

Yoon, Ju-Yoon - BSc, MSc, MD

LMP: Laboratory Medicine MHSc Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please check the departmental website for course availability.

Core Courses

Course Code	Course Title
LMP2000H	Cell and Molecular Biology
LMP2001H	Biomedical Research Methods
LMP2002H	Clinical Laboratory Management
LMP2003H	Biomedical Ethics
LMP2004H	Biostatistics
LMP2005Y⁰	Capstone Project in Laboratory Medicine (prerequisites: PA field: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2202H, LMP2203H; CE field: LMP2100H, LMP2102H, LMP2103H, LMP2104H, MSC1008H)

⁰ Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed.

Clinical Embryology Courses

Course Code	Course Title
LMP2006H	Individual Reading/Research Course
LMP2100H	Advanced Reproductive Physiology and Pathology (exclusion: PSL420H Reproduction: Development and Function)
LMP2102H	Foundations in ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) (prerequisite: LMP2100H)
LMP2103H	Reproductive Genetics (prerequisites: LMP2000H, LMP2100H)
LMP2104H	Applied Methods in ART (prerequisite: LMP2102H)
LMP2105H	Innovations in ART (prerequisites: LMP2000H, LMP2001H, LMP2002H, LMP2003H, LMP2004H, LMP2102H, LMP2103H, LMP2104H)
LMP2106H	Current Topics in Causes and Treatment of Infertility (prerequisites: LMP2100H, LMP2102H)
LMP2107H	Applied ART Laboratory Decision Making (prerequisites: LMP2100H, LMP2102H, LMP2105H, MSC1008H)
LMP2108H	Clinical Embryology Laboratory Simulation I (prerequisites: LMP2102H, LMP2104H, LMP2107H)
LMP2109H	Clinical Embryology Laboratory Simulation II (prerequisites: LMP2102H, LMP2104H, LMP2107H)
LMP2110H	ART Lab Rotations
MSC1008H	Advanced Human Embryology and Teratology (exclusion: ANA301H1 Human Embryology)

Pathologists' Assistant Courses

Course Code	Course Title
LMP2006H	Individual Reading/Research Course
LMP2200H	Basic Principles in Human Pathobiology and Pathophysiology
LMP2201H	Anatomy and Pathology of Organ Systems
LMP2202H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology I (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2203H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology II (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2204H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology III (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2205H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology IV (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2206H	Practicum in Autopsy Pathology (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2207H	Practicum in Forensic Pathology (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2208H	Biobanking for Research (prerequisite: LMP2200H; corequisites: LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2209H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology V (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2210H	Practicum in Surgical Pathology VI (prerequisites: LMP2200H, LMP2201H, LMP2211H)
LMP2211H	Advanced Anatomy Dissection (prerequisite: LMP2200H; exclusions: ANA400H, MSC1001Y)

LMP: Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology MSc, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please check the departmental website for course availability.

Course Code	Course Title
LMP1001H	Student Seminar I (Credit/No Credit)
LMP1002H	Student Seminar II (Credit/No Credit)
LMP1003H⁰	Student Seminar III (Credit/No Credit)
LMP1005H	Fundamentals of Research Practice (Credit/No Credit)
LMP1100H (0.25 FCE)	Cellular Imaging in Pathobiology
LMP1101H (0.25 FCE)	Basic Concepts in Inflammatory/Autoimmune Arthritis
LMP1102H (0.25 FCE)	Clinical Concepts in Inflammatory/Autoimmune Arthritis
LMP1103H (0.25 FCE)	Tissue Injury, Repair, and Regeneration
LMP1104H (0.25 FCE)	Current Understanding of Ischemic Heart Disease
LMP1105H (0.25 FCE)	Current Understanding of Atherosclerosis
LMP1106H (0.25 FCE)	Molecular Biology Techniques
LMP1107H (0.25 FCE)	Bioinformatics in LMP
LMP1108H (0.25 FCE)	Genomic Analysis in Medicine
LMP1109H (0.25 FCE)	Advanced Concepts in Cancer Biology
LMP1110H (0.25 FCE)	Neural Stem Cells: Brain Development and Maintenance
LMP1111H (0.25 FCE)	Introduction to R and the Analysis of Single Cell Data
LMP1200H	Neoplasia
LMP1201H	Research Techniques in Molecular Biology and Pathobiology
LMP1202H	Inflammation, Immunity, and Immunopathology of Atherosclerosis
LMP1203H	Analytical Clinical Biochemistry: Basic Principles
LMP1204H	Translational Research in Pathobiology
LMP1205H	The Role of Genomics in the Era of Personalized Medicine
LMP1206H	Next Generation Genomics in Clinical Medicine
LMP1207H	Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics, and Their Clinical Applications
LMP1208H	Molecular Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
LMP1209H	Neurodegenerative Disease — Mechanisms, Models, and Methods
LMP1210H	Basic Principles of Machine Learning in Biomedical Research
LMP1300Y	General and Special Pathology (for Oral Pathology Residents only)

⁰ Course that may continue over a program. The course is graded when completed, or credit is given when the course is completed.

LMP: Translational Research in the Health Sciences MHSc Courses

Required Courses

Course Code	Course Title
LMP2300Y	Foundations in Translational Research
LMP2301Y	Projects in Translational Research
LMP2320H	Overview of Methods in Practices and Contexts
LMP2322H	Information, Media, and Communication Literacy for the Sciences
LMP2330Y⁺ (2.0 FCEs)	Capstone Project in Translational Research

⁺ Extended course. For academic reasons, coursework is extended into session following academic session in which course is offered.

Modular Courses (Credit/No Credit; 0.25 FCE each)

Course Code	Course Title
LMP2340H	Project Management I
LMP2341H	Project Management II (prerequisite: LMP2340H or permission of the program director)
LMP2342H	Intellectual Property Fundamentals
LMP2343H	Applied Intellectual Property (prerequisite: LMP2342H or permission of the program director)
LMP2344H	Translational Thinking
LMP2345H	Procurement, Privacy, and Regulatory Affairs
LMP2346H	Grant Writing
LMP2347H	Economics of Healthcare
LMP2348H	Knowledge Translation and the Community
LMP2349H	Student Work and Research Module (SWARM)
LMP2350H	Professionalism
LMP2351H	Leadership
LMP2352H	Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship, and Business Model Design
LMP2353H	Introduction to AI in Healthcare
LMP2354H	Hacking Network
LMP2355H	Business Thinking
LMP2390H	Selected Topics