Who We Are 55,400+ 7,500+ 8,243 872 25 16 79 14 9 9 25

Who We Are 55,400+ 7,500+ 8,243 872 25 16 79 14 9 9 25

What makes the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto a dynamic centre for training, collaboration and innovation? Let us tell you… Who we are We’re people We’re multi-disciplinary U OF T’S HEALTH SCIENCE NETWORK: 55,400+ 25 14 Alumni Medicine Departments Graduate Arts & Rehabilitation Science Sciences units spanning basic science, clinical, rehabilitation 7,500+ Nursing UTM/ 16 and MAM sciences, Students Social Work Interdisciplinary translational Centres/Institutes research, and health systems Pharmacy Dentistry 1,450 79 Undergraduate Kinesiology Post MD 9 medical professions IBBME* & Physical programs (Engineering) Education Departments teaching students undergraduate Arts Public Health & Science students *Institute of Biomaterials 59 & Biomedical Engineering MD/PhD students 2,358 We’re partners in Canada’s single payer system Graduate students PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION 9 Teaching 25 2,111 Fully-affiliated Hospitals Community-affiliated hospitals Residents hospitals and sites, including: 1,548 • Baycrest Health Sciences • Humber River Hospital • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health • Lakeridge Health Fellows • Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital • Markham Stouffville Hospital • The Hospital for Sick Children • Michael Garron Hospital 40,574 • St. Michael’s Hospital • North York General Hospital Registrants per • Sinai Health System: • Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences year for Continuing · Bridgepoint Health • Providence Healthcare Professional · Mount Sinai Hospital • Rouge Valley Health System Development activities • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre • University Health Network: • St. Joseph’s Health Centre — · Princess Margaret Hospital • Scarborough and Rouge Hospital · Toronto General Hospital • Southlake Regional Health Centre 8,243 · Toronto Rehabilitation Institute • Trillium Health Partners: Faculty members · Toronto Western Hospital · Credit Valley Hospital (more than 2,800 • Women's College Hospital · Mississauga Hospital are full-time, · Queensway Health Centre 226 appointed on campus) • Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care • West Park Healthcare Centre • William Osler Health System 872 Staff How we compare Our record of success We’re Canada’s top medical school For almost a century, the University of Toronto has delivered revolutionary advances in health research. and among the best in the world This distinguished history of innovation positions us to tackle the biggest challenges in human health today. International Rankings Did you know this 1921 Insulin Frederick Banting ’16, ’22, Charles Best ’21, ’25, about U of T ... J.B. Collip ’12, ’13 & J.J.R. Macleod 3rd National Taiwan University Toronto’s the only city 1930 Pablum our size in the world Frederick Tisdall ’16, Theodore Drake ’14 & Alan Brown th with just one medical school 1936 Purification of Heparin 7 David A. Scott & Arthur F. Charles US News and World Report We’re 1st in Canada and 5th in the world 1936 First Mobile Blood Transfusion Unit th Norman Bethune ‘16 14 for publications in the Times Higher Education 50 highest-impact 1951 First Electronic Heart Pacemaker journals in medicine Wilfrid G. Bigelow ’35, ‘38 th and related fields 15 1961 Discovery of Stem Cells QS World University James Till & Ernest McCulloch ‘48 Ranking 1981 The Glycemic Index David Jenkins 1981 First Single Lung Transplant Griffith Pearson ’49, ’52 & Joel Cooper 1984 T-Cell Receptor Gene How we have impact Tak Mak 1988 First Nerve Transplant Alan Hudson & Susan MacKinnon October 2017 We’re a huge $850M 11 research Total funding New start-up 1989 The Cystic Fibrosis Gene Lap-Chee Tsui enterprise companies* 1991 Cell Receptor Discoveries Leading to the 9,312 Development of New Cancer Drugs Total awards 43 Tony Pawson New priority patent applications* 1995 Discovery of Two Genes Responsible 125 for Early-onset Alzheimer’s Canada Peter St. George-Hyslop Research Chairs 192 New invention 2010 Stem Cells Restore Sight to Blind Mice disclosures* Derek van der Kooy *over the last five years 2015 Opening the Blood-Brain Barrier Todd Mainprize et al. medicine.utoronto.ca.

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