Faculty

Alison Allan

Associate Vice-President, Research & Professor (Joint Appointment with Oncology)

Research Interests / Specializations: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis, translational research, development of blood biomarkers of metastasis.

Brian Allman

Associate Professor

Michele Barbeau

Assistant Professor & Associate Chair Undergraduate Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: My research interests lie in the areas of both educational scholarship and clinically related anatomical research. The educational scholarship is focused mainly on developing and assessing methods to enhance the online learning environment for students. While the clinical anatomy research focuses on collaborations with other groups to solve anatomically based clinical questions.

Nathalie Bérubé

Professor (Basic Scientist in Paediatrics)

Research Interests / Specializations: Epigenetic regulation of brain development through the study of proteins that modulate chromatin structure

Tyler Beveridge

Assistant Professor, Associate Chair Cadaveric Anatomy, Program Director of MSc in ACB Clinical Anatomy

Research Interests / Specializations: Surgical Anatomy, Abdominopelvic Anatomy

Arthur Brown

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Design and development of experimental therapies to improve recovery and regeneration after spinal cord injury, brain injury and stroke.

Gediminas (Gedas) Cepinskas

Professor, Cross Appointment with Medical Biophysics)

Research Interests / Specializations: Research focusses on systemic inflammation (e.g. sepsis) induced activation/dysfunction of organ-specific vascular endothelial cells. Gaseous transmitters (e.g. carbon monoxide) are investigated as potential therapy to suppress inflammation.

Sayra Cristancho

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery and Faculty of Education

Andrew Deweyert

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus in assessment and competency-based education, faculty development, and innovations in anatomy education.

Vanessa Dumeaux

Assistant Professor (Joint Appointment with Oncology)

Research Interests / Specializations: Identification of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, immune responses to cancer, gut microbiome, genomics, data science, bioinformatics, translational research

Sandrine De Ribaupierre

Associate Professor (Cross Appointment with Clinical Neurological Sciences)

Research Interests / Specializations: Epilepsy, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Paediatric Neurosurgery

Martin Duennwald

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: The Duennwald lab explores the role of protein misfolding and cellular protein quality control in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Our research combines work in yeast models, cultured mammalian cells, in vitro biochemistry, and pathological studies.

Anna Farias

Lecturer - Windsor Campus

Lauren Flynn

Department Chair, Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of cell-based regenerative strategies for soft tissue regeneration, therapeutic angiogenesis, and wound healing. Harnessing the extracellular matrix to design cell-instructive biomaterials for applications in cell culture and pro-regenerative cell delivery.

Douglas Hamilton

Professor, (Cross Appointment with Dentistry)

Research Interests / Specializations: Pathology of impaired wound healing; design of novel biomaterials for soft tissue regeneration; cellular mechanotransduction and extracellular matrix synthesis

Lisa Hoffman

Assistant Professor (Cross Appointment with Medical Biophysics)

Research Interests / Specializations: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, positron emission tomography, non-invasive imaging of migration of satellite cells

Abbas Jessani

Associate Professor (Cross Appointment with Dentistry)

Kabir Khan

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Molecular Angiogenesis

Jibran Khokhar

Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Research

Research Interests / Specializations: Preclinical imaging for mental illness and addiction, Treatment Development, Development of pre-clinical models based on GWAS findings, Behavioural Neuropsychopharmacology

Dale W. Laird

Distinguished University Professor & Assistant Dean, Research Chairs & Awards

Research Interests / Specializations: Dr. Laird's primary research interest involves studies related to the function of gap junction proteins, connexins, in health and disease.

Patrick Lajoie

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Cellular mechanisms of proteostasis, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and transcriptional control in health, disease, and aging. Using budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), the fungal pathogen Candida albicans, and mammalian cells — combined with genomics, molecular genetics, and live-cell imaging — to study how the unfolded protein response, transcriptional regulation, and protein acetylation control stress adaptation, morphogenesis, and antifungal drug resistance, with a broader interest in how protein misfolding drives cellular aging.

Steven Laviolette

Professor

Lorelei Lingard

Professor, Department of Medicine

Charys Martin

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: As an elected Teaching Fellow with Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Martin is developing a library of anatomical learning resources that educate and role-model gender-inclusive and culturally appropriate terminology. Implementation and evaluation of these inclusive educational resources into Medicine and healthcare professional programs will lead to graduates who are equipped with language that is socially accountable and culturally sensitive, aligning with Schulich’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization goals.

Sarah McLean

Associate Professor & Director, Schulich Education Enhancement Division (Joint Appointment with Physiology and Pharmacology)

Derek Mitchell

Associate Professor (Basic Scientist in Psychiatry)

Research Interests / Specializations: Interests include cognitive neuroscience approaches to emotional processes and empathy, and determining their role and modification in various psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Corey Moore

Associate Professor (Cross Appointment with Otolaryngology)

Michelle Mottola

Professor (Joint Appointment with Kinesiology)

Research Interests / Specializations: Best-practice strategies for a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy and post-delivery, how exercise and a healthy lifestyle impact women at risk for and diagnosed with diabetes or obesity during pregnancy and their babies up to one year of age, and the effects of exercise during pregnancy on mother and fetus.

Georgia Nikoloudaki

Assistant Professor (Cross Appointment with Dentistry)

Research Interests / Specializations: Development of extracellular matrix-based biomaterials and regenerative strategies for dental pulp and oral tissue repair, with a focus on stem/progenitor cell–matrix interactions, cellular mechanotransduction, and wound healing.

Armen Parsyan

Assistant Professor (Cross Appointment with Surgery and Oncology)

Research Interests / Specializations: Breast cancer development and progression, modern translational breast cancer models, chemotherapy and radiotherapy in breast cancer, role of the immune system in breast cancer development and progression

Silvia Penuela

Assistant Dean, Translational Research, & Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Cell biology and function of pannexin channels in healthy tissues and their dysregulation in cancer.

Marco Prado

Professor (Joint Appointment with Physiology & Pharmacology)

Vania Prado

Professor (Joint Appointment with Physiology & Pharmacology)

Graham Read

Assistant Professor

Stephen Renaud

Associate Professor & Associate Chair Graduate Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Reproductive biology and immunology, with a focus on development of the placenta and causes of pregnancy complications.

Charles Rice

Professor (Joint Appointment with Kinesiology)

Research Interests / Specializations: Human neuromuscular anatomy and physiology in health exercise ageing and disease

Walter Rushlow

Associate Professor, (Basic Scientist in Psychiatry) & Assistant Dean, Program Review and Development

Susanne Schmid

Professor & Vice Dean of Basic Medical Sciences

Research Interests / Specializations: Sensory processing and sensory filtering in the brainstem, disruptions of sensory processing in neurodevelopmental disorders/autism

Trevor Shepherd

Professor (Basic Scientist in Obstetrics & Gynaecology), Director, Centre for Translational Cancer Research

Research Interests / Specializations: The focus of my research program is to interrogate the mechanisms controlling ovarian cancer metastasis using three-dimensional in vitro culture model systems. We are currently pursuing genetic and pharmacologic approaches to ablate stress-mediated survival pathways as new therapeutic strategies against advanced ovarian cancer.

Krishna Singh

Associate Professor (Cross-Appointment in Medical Biophysics)

Research Interests / Specializations: Different Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease

Jacqueline Torti

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Shawn Whitehead

Professor & Director of Western Institute for Neuroscience

Research Interests / Specializations: Identifying and targeting early risk factors of cognitive impairment.

Katherine Willmore

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Our group works to understand the developmental and biomechanical mechanisms that underly variation in craniofacial shape.

Tim Wilson

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Digitally enumerate and model the anatomical changes following maxillomandibular (MMA) surgery employed to correct obstructive sleep apnea. Measure neurophysiological behaviours (cerebral blood flow, eye-tracking, fNIRS) that accompany learning and/or skill acquisition in pedagogic environments.

Katelyn Wood

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: As an educational scholar, my research focusses on assessment, the use of technology in the classroom and teaching and learning in anatomy.