Naylor Building

Department of Medicine

Anchored in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at U of T, the Department of Medicine is one of the oldest departments of its kind in North America, dating back to the founding of the School of Medicine in 1843. Now, the Department of Medicine is one of the largest in North America, with 946 full-time faculty members and over 1,000 postgraduate trainees located across hospitals and clinical practice sites across the Greater Toronto Area. One third of Canada’s and one half of Ontario’s internal medicine specialists received their training here.

We are a research powerhouse that generates new knowledge with the goal of meaningfully impacting internal medicine training and the care and health outcomes of patients and their families. A commitment to equity, diversity and professionalism, and a philosophy of innovation, creativity and continuous quality improvement, informs everything that we do.

Welcome to the Department of Medicine

Message from the Chair

A New Chapter Begins

Dear colleagues, I am excited and honoured to begin my term as Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. For those who don’t know me, I’m a general internist; I attend on the clinical teaching units at Toronto General Hospital and I have a small outpatient practice in osteoporosis. I’m also a clinician scientist with a focus on stroke and cardiovascular health services research, but I began my academic career as a clinician educator, and I still love teaching and working with trainees. I just completed eight years as Departmental Division Director for General Internal Medicine – a role that allowed me to learn about many aspects of our academic community.