Juan Duero

MD MSc FRCPC

Assistant Professor - Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Duero Posada serves as the Program Director for the advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship program at the University Health Network. His academic interest lies in the field of quality improvement, he has participated in provincial and national initiatives aiming to delineate quality indicators in heart transplantation.

Neta Gotlieb

MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Ottawa Hospital

Graduated from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and completed her training in internal medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology in Tel-Aviv medical center. She completed her transplant hepatology fellowship in Ajmera Transplant Centre, University of Toronto after which she and her family moved to Ottawa. Dr. Gotlieb is an assistant professor of medicine in the University of Ottawa since 2021 and has been working as a gastroenterologist, general and transplant hepatologist in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Ottawa Hospital

Dr. Gotlieb’s main clinical work and research is focusing on liver cirrhosis and its complication with frailty and sarcopenia in particular, portal hypertension, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver transplantation.

As a faculty member at the University of Ottawa she is highly involved in teaching students, residents and fellows and has organized multiple education days discussing advanced liver disease and its implications.

Victoria Hall

MBBS (Hons) MPH FRACP

Assistant Professor, Clinician Investigator
Department of Transplant Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, UHN

Dr Victoria Hall is a Transplant Infectious Diseases physician and clinician investigator at Ajmera Transplant Centre. She has trained in both Melbourne, Australia in Infectious Diseases and completed a Transplant ID fellowship at UHN in 2021. Her main research interest is understanding the burden, host immune response and prevention strategies of respiratory viral infections in immunocompromised patients.

Andrew Healy

MD FRCPC (EM CCM) DRCPSC (he/him)

Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
Provincial Medical Director, Donation | Clinical Institutes & Quality Programs | Trillium Gift of Life Network (Ontario Health)
Regional Clinical Lead, Critical Care | Ontario Health (Central Region)

Dr. Healey is an emergency and critical care physician. He is the Chief of Critical Care at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and a Critical Care Physician at William Osler Health System. He is currently the Provincial Medical Director for Donation with Trillium Gift of Life (Ontario Health) and a Regional Critical Care Clinical Lead with Ontario Health. As an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University, his current academic interests are around optimizing death determination, donation processes, and health system leadership.

Sasan Hosseini

MD MPH MSc

Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medicine, University of Toronto
Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network, Transplant-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program

• Specialist of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Fellowship in Transplant Infectious Diseases, U of T
• MSc degrees in Public Health and Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• ICES Scientist
• Transplant ID Medical Director: London Health Sciences Centre, UWO (2014-2019)
• Transplant ID, Fellowship Director, Ajmera Transplant Centre, UHN (2021-present)
• Infectious Diseases Division, Fellowship Director, Dept. of Medicine, U of T, (2022-present).

Adriana Luk

MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Adriana Luk is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist, as well as a cardiac intensivist at UHN. She completed her cardiology and critical care training at U of T, and her heart failure fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her academic interests include quality improvement and patient safety for the critically ill patients admitted with heart failure.

Sonia Rodriguez-Ramirez

MD MSc (Healthcare quality)

Department of Nephrology and Ajmera Transplant Centre, University of Toronto

Dr. Sonia Rodriguez-Ramirez is a transplant nephrologist based at University Health Network originally from Mexico. She completed a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality in 2023. Sonia’s Quality Improvement (QI) interests include high-value care, novel models of inpatient care and transitions of care, qualitative research, and change management. She believes QI’s mission is about serving exponentially, beyond our human limits, by designing valuable healthcare systems to impact our community.

Sunita Singh

MD MSc FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Transplant Nephrologist, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network
Medical Director, Living Kidney Donation Program, University Health Network

Dr. Sunita Singh is a transplant nephrologist in the Division of Nephrology and the medical director of the living kidney donation program at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Singh completed medical school at the University of Toronto, and internal medicine and chief medical residency at the University of British Columbia. She returned to Toronto to complete a Master of Science in clinical epidemiology and health care research, as well as additional fellowship training in kidney transplantation and advanced diabetes care. Dr. Singh’s research interests are focused on the follow-up of living kidney donors, as well as the use of novel glucose-lowering agents for cardiorenal protection in kidney transplant recipients.

Vikas S. Sridhar

MD FRCPC

Fellow, Division of Nephrology, UHN
PhD Candidate, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto

Dr. Vikas S. Sridhar MD, FRCPC completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at McGill University followed by a residency in adult nephrology and a fellowship in kidney and pancreas transplantation at the University of Toronto. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto with a focus on cardio-kidney-metabolic health in transplantation. He is supported by the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program, a Banting and Best Diabetes Centre Postdoctoral fellowship, and a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Research Award.

Andrea Weiss

MD MSc CCFP(PC) FRCPC

Assistant Professor, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Andrea completed her medical degree at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Family Medicine residency training at University of Toronto, and she completed the conjoint fellowship in palliative care at University of Toronto in 2012. She wrote the Royal College Palliative Medicine exam in 2018. Andrea is the lead for the Toronto General Hospital inpatient palliative care consult service, which helps support patients with malignant and/or non-malignant disease.