core faculty

Faculty Directory

Assistant Professor

Amanda Raffoul PhD

Research Interests

public health nutrition, eating disorders prevention, nutrition policy, health equity, mental health, youth engagement, dietary supplements, mixed-methods
Professor Emeritus

A. Venketeshwer Rao PhD

Research Interests

chronic disease, probiotics, prebiotics, polyphenols, phytonutrients
Associate Professor — Status Only

Daniel Roth MD, PhD

Research Interests

child health and nutrition in low-income settings, vitamin D, microbiome, infectious disease, infant and child growth
Professor  |  Director, Joannah & Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition

Daniel Sellen PhD

Research Interests

behavioural biology, community nutrition interventions, global health, nutritional anthropology, human ecology, paediatric nutrition
Professor — Status Only

Philip Sherman MD

Research Interests

carbohydrate metabolism, human milk oligosaccharides, probiotics, prebiotics, molecular and cell biology
Professor  |  Nutritional Medical Education Coordinator

John Sievenpiper MD, PhD

Research Interests

carbohydrate/fibre metabolism, cardiometabolic health, clinical practice guidelines, clinical trials, community and public health nutrition, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, microbiome, metabolomics, nutritional epidemiology
Professor Emeritus

Valerie Tarasuk PhD

Research Interests

food fortification, food insecurity, food policy, public health nutrition
Professor Emeritus

Lilian Thompson PhD

Research Interests

bioactives, bone health, gut health, carbohydrate/fibre metabolism, diet and cancer, functional foods and nutraceuticals, microbiome, nutrition in diseased populations
Associate Professor — Status Only

Christopher Tomlinson MD, PhD

Research Interests

growth of term and preterm neonates requiring intensive care, amino acid metabolism, protein metabolism, nutrition across the lifespan