This website relies on the input of many writers, editors, health librarians, content providers and expert reviewers from Women's College Hospital and other leading health-care organizations.

To read more about who contributes to this site on a day-to-day basis, please see Our Team.

Our Health A-Z section contains short articles that we have written, and detailed descriptions of external print and web-based resources from a variety of authors, organizations, editors and other contributors, too numerous to mention here. To find out more about who wrote, created or contributed to these resources, please see the author and organization fields near the top of each individual article or record.

Below, you will find a list of past and present contributors to our virtual Health Centres:

Breast Cancer Health Centre

• Dr. Sandra Messner
• Dr. Steven Narod, chair of breast cancer research, WCRI
• Chris Sinding
• Dr. Maureen Trudeau, oncologist

Cervical Cancer Health Centre

• Dr. Alan Covens, gynecological oncologist
• Dr. Nancy Durand, gynecologist
• Lori Lyons
• Catherine Teasdale

Colorectal Cancer Health Centre

• Lori Lyons
• Dr. Linda Rabeneck
• Dr. Susan Stafford

Endometrial Cancer Health Centre

• Dr. Ida Ackerman, radiation oncologist
• Dr. Alan Covens, gynecological oncologist
• Lori Lyons
• Catherine Teasdale

Ovarian Cancer Health Centre

• Dr. Alan Covens, gynecological oncologist
• Lori Lyons

Skin Cancer Health Centre

• Dr. Lynn From, dermatologist
• Lori Lyons
• Dr. Christian Murray, dermatologist
• Dr. Nowell Solish, dermatologist
• Catherine Teasdale

Cardiovascular Health Centre

• Lori Lyons
• Jennifer Price, clinical nurse specialist
• Dr. Len Sternberg, cardiologist
• Madeleine Whitfield 

Diabetes Health Centre

• Kim Barwise
• Phyllis Duxbury, dietitian
• Marsha Feldt, dietitian
• Anne Fox, diabetes educator
• Dr. Catherine Kelly, endocrinologist
• Dr. Anne Kenshole, endocrinologist
• Carolyn Lawton, diabetes nurse educator
• Jeanette MacDonald, social worker
• Sheila Walker, dietitian 

Environmental Health Centre

• Dr. Alison Bested
• Nancy Bradshaw, community outreach coordinator
• Dr. Riina Bray, medical director, Environmental Health Clinic
• Dr. Kathleen Kerr, medical research liaison
• Dr. Lynn Marshall, medical education liaison
• Dr. John Molot, medical legal liaison

Osteoporosis Health Centre

• Elaine Beltijar, pharmacist
• Sonia Bibershtein, physical therapist
• Lynn Carter
• Dr. Gillian Hawker, rheumatologist
• Marilyn Irwin, RN
• Lori Lyons
• Dr. Heather McDonald-Blumer
• Heather McPherson
• Azeena Ratansi, occupational therapist
• Filomena Vernace-Inserra, dietitian
• Madeleine Whitfield 

Pelvic Health Centre

• Dr. Stuart Bell, radiologist
• Dr. Jennifer Blake, gynecologist
• Dr. Janet Bodley, gynecologist
• Dr. Nancy Durand, gynecologist
• Karin Fleming
• Dr. David Gerber, gynecologist
• Dr. Sender Herschorn, urologist
• Deborah Jones
• Dr. Sheila Laredo, endocrinologist
• Dr. Clifford Librach, gynecologist
• Dr. Kai Lie, gynecologist
• Lori Lyons
• Dr. Diane Meschino, psychiatrist
• Heather Munroe
• Dr. Richard Pittini, gynecologist
• Dr. Agnes Reicher, dermatologist
• Deborah Steele

Pregnancy Health Centre

• Anne Archer
• Dr. Ruth Brooks
• Dr. Howard Cohen, obstetrician/gynecologist
• Helen Coombs
• Roseanne Hickey
• Lori Lyons
• Janice Pearson

Sexual Health Centre

• Dr. Shelia Dunn, medical director, Bay Centre for Birth Control
• Linda Gardner
• Lori Lyons

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