Professional Contributions
Gideon Koren is a pediatrician, pharmacologist and toxicologist at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. He is Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto, and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physiology-Pharmacology at the Schulich School of Medicine of the University of Western Ontario.
In 1985, Dr. Gideon Koren founded the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk Program, which he continues to direct. Motherisk counsels women, their families and health professionals on the safety-risks of drugs, chemicals, radiation and infections during pregnancy and lactation. Motherisk counselors talk to hundreds of women and their healthcare providers each day.
Since 1986, Dr. Koren has trained physicians from over 30 countries, and over 80 graduate students in pharmacology, making his program the largest worldwide.
Gideon Koren has been a Senior Scientist of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) . In 2004, Dr. Koren was appointed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as the inaugural chairperson of the Steering Committee for the newly created Obstetric-Fetal Pharmacology Research Unit (OPRU) Network. Since 2005, Dr. Koren has been the Course Director of the Annual Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology, a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health and Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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