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About Our Faculty

Our department is one of the most comprehensive obstetrics and gynaecology departments in North America, with 300 faculty members in six full-affiliated and nine community-affiliated hospitals.

Our faculty comprises experts in all areas of women's health, ranging from management of high-risk pregnancies, to reproductive endocrinology and infertility, to gynaecologic oncology and minimally invasive surgery, among many others. Our members form a extensive group of clinicians, educators, translational scientists and basic scientists who continuously strive to change the delivery and quality of patient care not only for the women and babies in Toronto's diverse population, but also in the health care system across Canada and internationally.

Each year, our faculty continues to grow with talented and dedicated physicians in research and clinical care. See our faculty directory for the full list.

2025 promotions 

Promoted to Associate Professor

Deborah Robertson, Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael's Hospital

  • Noted for her deep engagement in a broad spectrum of supervision and teaching activities, spanning undergraduate medical education, family medicine residents, ob-gyn residents, and minimally invasive surgical fellows. Locally, she has enriched learning at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, while nationally, her expertise has been showcased through esteemed platforms such as CanSAGE, SOGC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Promoted to Professor

Ally Murji, Trillium Health Partners

  • Noted for research, fellowship training, education, international leadership, and innovation in surgical techniques. Since his last promotion, he has published 55 papers, achieved an H-index of 27 with over 2,800 citations, and his work has been incorporated into major international guidelines, influencing standards of care worldwide.

Amanda Selk, Mount Sinai Hospital

  • Noted for innovative educational tools, advocacy and guideline development, international leadership, and contributions to professional practice through education, training, public engagement, and research. A major focus of her work has been advancing education in vulvovaginal disease through initiatives such as The Vulvar Diaries podcast, with 39 episodes and over 66,000 downloads from 125 countries.

2024 promotions 

Promoted to Assistant Professor

Alisha Olsthoorn, Trillium Health Partner–Credit Valley Hospital

Elin Raymond, Michael Garron Hospital Clinical

Abheha Satkunaratnam, North York General Hospital

Promoted to Associate Professor

Sebastian Hobson, Mount Sinai Hospital

Liat Hogen, Unity Health Toronto–Princess Margret Hospital  

Claire Jones, Mount Sinai Hospital

Noor Ladhani, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Andrea Lausman, Unity Health Toronto–St. Michael's Hospital

Colleen McDermott, Mount Sinai Hospital

Andrea Simpson, Unity Health Toronto–St. Michael's Hospital

Wendy Whittle, Mount Sinai Hospital

New appointments

2025

 

Merihan Abdelmalek, Lecturer, Scarborough Health Network 

Olga Bougie, Associate Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital and Women’s College Hospital

Rebecca Cherniak, Assistant Professor, North York General Hospital

Karlijn Cornel,  Assistant Professor, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Noa Gilad, Assistant Professor, Trillium - Credit Valley Hospital

Allan Kember, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital

Adrienne Li, Lecturer, Trillium Health Partners – Mississauga Hospital

Anna Kobylianskii, Assistant Professor, Clinician Teacher, St. Joseph’s Health Centre

Cristina Mitric, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital

Azra Shivji, Assistant Professor, Trillium – Mississauga Hospital

Larissa Eleanor Tam, Lecturer, Scarborough Health Network

Evangelia Vlachodimitropoulou Koumoutsea, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital

Helen Yang, Lecturer, Southlake Regional Health Centre

Jonathan Zipursky, Assistant Professor, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

 

2024

Alexandra Berezowsky, Assistant Professor, Unity Health Toronto–St. Michael's Hospital

Meghan Brown, Lecturer, Michael Garron Hospital

Shirin Dason, Assistant Professor, Private Practice — Pollin Fertility

Shira Gold, Lecturer, Unity Health Toronto–St. Michael's Hospital

Kinshuk Kumar, Assistant Professor, Trillium Health Partners – Mississauga Hospital

Yiwen Liu, Lecturer, Unity Health Toronto–St. Michael's Hospital

Homero Flores Mendoza, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital

Lavanya Ravichandran, Lecturer, Scarborough General Hospital

Pallavi Sriram, Lecturer, North York General Hospital

Marina Vainder, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital

Rebecca Zur, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital