Ahmed El-Sohemy

Dr. El-Sohemy is a Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Education at the University of Toronto and held a Teir 2 Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics (2003-2013). He obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. In 2000 he returned to U of T as an Assistant Professor to establish a research program in nutrigenomics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has given more than 400 invited talks around the world. The goal of his research program is to identify genetic markers that predict response to various dietary factors on a variety of health and performance outcomes.

Dr. El-Sohemy has served on Health Canada’s Scientific Advisory Board and several international expert advisory panels. Dr. El-Sohemy was the primary supervisor for 14 PhD and 17 MSc students and co-supervised 6 other graduate students, while serving on the advisory committee of 36 graduate students and dozens of graduate student examinations. Each of his graduate students normally publishes several papers, usually with them as first author. Dr. El-Sohemy is the recipient of several awards for research excellence by the Canadian Nutrition Society, the American College of Nutrition, and the American Nutrition Association.