Research Director: Dr. Jordan Feld
Biology Lead: Dr. Adam Gehring, PhD
Basic Science Research Lab Team: Alexander Mosa, Stuti Shah, Atif Zahoor
Biostatistician: Leila Amiri, PhD
Clinical Research Staff Hepatologists and Fields of Expertise
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Dr. Morven Cunningham – Checkpoint Inhibitor Hepatotoxicity, Hepato-oncology
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Dr. Jordan Feld – Hepatitis B and C, Wilson Disease
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Dr. Scott Fung – Hepatitis B and C
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Dr. Aliya Gulamhusein – Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis
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Dr. Gideon Hirschfield – Primary Biliary Cholangitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Dr. Kristel Leung – Autoimmune / Cholestatic Liver Diseases, Population Health
- Dr. Fernanda Onofrio – Alcohol-related liver disease, MASLD, Cirrhosis
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Dr. Keyur Patel – Liver Fibrosis/Fatty Liver
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Dr. Hemant Shah – Education
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Dr. Arndt Vogel – Liver cancer, Bile duct cancer
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Dr. David Wong – Hepatitis B, C and HIV co-infection
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Dr. Florence Wong – Portal Hypertension, Ascites
Affiliate Scientist
- Dr. Harry Janssen – Hepatitis B
Affiliate Scientist/Senior Biostatistician
Senior Manager, Clinical Research
Clinical Research Nurses
- Bethany Barber
- Emily Ho
- Magdalena Kuczynski (treatment nurse)
- Danie La
- Melissa Reyes
- Grace Wong
Clinical Research Coordinators/Analysts/Assistants
- Nilofur Aga
- Aisha Alawi
- Jenna Bavota
- Madeline Cameron
- Jiayun (Jenny) Chen
- Zhaolu Ding
- Claire Gage
- Christine Hu
- Drashti Jain
- Ripandeep Kaur
- Nishat Rashid
- Ambreen Syeda
- Sarah Sousa Tran
- Shani Nagler
- Sanam Tabataba Vakil
- Doinita Vladutu
Research Fellows / Scientific Associate
- Avisha Chowdhury
- Andrew Mendlowitz
- Loghman Salimzadeh
- Yanal Ghosheh
- Atif Zahoor
PhD & Graduate Students (2024 - 2025)
- Nahla Fadl ElMawla
- Maria George
- Grishma Hirode
- Jonah Lin
- Ayoub Mahassine
- Gharaza Nasir
- Juan Sanchez Vasquez (Diego)
- Amir Reza Mojtahed Zahed
- Serena (Zeqi) Wan
- Vicky Xie
Research Students/Appointees/Volunteers
- Afrah Abdul Hakeem
- Wesam Aleyadeh
- Nader Allam
- Doroto Borovsky
- Daniel Cooper
- Hooman Ebrahimi
- Saima Naim
- Chloe Nguyen
- Ava Poirier
- Fabiha Razzak
- Sohan Rasul
- Natalie Simonian
- Rebecca Sole
- Andy Zhu
Special Project Staff
HepCnet
- Coordinator: Stephanie Vieira
Viral Hepatitis Care Network (VIRCAN)
- Manager: Camelia Capraru
- Community Outreach Coordinators: Aaron Vanderhoff
- Clinical Research Nurse: Bethany Barber, Magdalena Kuczynski (treatment nurse)
- Clinical Research Associate: David Smookler
- Clinical Research Coordinator: Medi Usoro
- Clinical Research Analyst: Sarah Sousa Tran
- Post Doctoral Fellows: Kate Dunn
Hepatitis Education Peer Support Group
- Hepatitis Education Support Worker:
Global PBC Study Group
- Toronto Site contact: Shani Nagler
Canadian Network for Autoimmune Liver Disease (CaNAL)
- Toronto Site Contact: Madeline Cameron
- Investigator Initiated PSC studies: Aisha Alawi
- Visiting Autoimmune Liver Disease Fellow: TBD
