Dr. Allison McGeer

• 2025–present; Advisory Committee on Science, Public Health Agency of Canada
• 2023–present; Expert Panel, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, Public Health Agency of Canada
• 2022–present; Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, Public Health Agency of Canada
• 2022–present; Ontario Immunization Advisory Committee
• 2018–present; Co-Chair, Candia auris Working Group, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program
• 2019–present; Senior Clinician Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto
• 2003–present; Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medicine, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• 1990–present; Microbiologist, Sinai Health System/University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto
• 1997–present; Editorial Board, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Former appointments

• 2014–2015; National Focal Point, Infection Prevention and Control, Liberia, for the World Health Organization Ebola Outbreak Response
• 1998–2006; Editorial Board, Canadian Medical Association Journal
• 1996–2003; Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto
• 1990–2019; Director, Division of Infection Control, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
• 1990–1996; Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto
• 1976–1978; Visiting Scientist, Technical University, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

• Hospital Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT; 1989–1990
• FRCPC, Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto; 1982–1989
• MD, University of Toronto; 1978–1982
• Visiting Research Scientist, Technisches Universität, Berlin, Germany; 1976–1978
• MSc, Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto; 1974–1976
• BSc, Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto; 1970–1974

• 2026 – Member, Order of Canada
• 2024 – Member, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
• 2022 – DSc(Hons), McMaster University
• 2022 – Medal of Honour, Health Research Foundation
• 2022 – Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year (Honorary), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
• 2021 – John G Fitzgerald Award (Outstanding Microbiologist) Canadian Association for Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• 2021 – Norman Rosenblum Award for Excellence in Mentorship in the MD/PhD Program, University of Toronto
• 2020 – Lila Albin Award for the Best Indoor Environmental Quality Paper of 2019, American Industrial Hygiene Association
• 2017 – AMMI Canada Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2015 – Canadian Medical Association May Cohen Award for Women Mentors

We are always looking for motivated researchers to join our team.

Postdocs
Our research group is always interested in recruiting highly motivated postdoctoral fellows with a strong publication record in infectious disease epidemiology or bioinformatics. Please forward your CV, references and research interests to Allison McGeer ([email protected]).

Graduate students
Our research group is part of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, in the Faculty of Medicine at U of T, both of which have a central admission committee. Graduate students interested in doing a PhD in the laboratory must first be accepted into one of these departments.

Summer students 
Summer students are exclusively selected from successful applicants to the Research Training Center (RTC) at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. Applications are available online and need to be filled by February 28th of each year.