Catharine I. Whiteside

Catharine Whiteside is currently Dean and Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a staff Nephrologist and a Senior Scientist in the University Health Network (UHN) /Toronto General Hospital.

In 2000, Dr. Whiteside assumed the position of Associate Dean Graduate and Inter-Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto with responsibility for graduate and 2nd entry allied health academic programs, as well as the MD/PhD program. This decanal portfolio has enabled Dr. Whiteside to integrate her expertise in research and education. She has worked closely with The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences to establish a joint BSc/Diploma in Medical Radiation Sciences program with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. On behalf of the Council of Health Science and Social Work Deans she has chaired the Inter-Professional Education Curriculum Planning Committee and from 1997 to 2002 was the Director of the Clinician-Scientist Training Program. From 1993 to 1999 she was Graduate Coordinator of the Institute of Medical Sciences.

Dr. Whiteside was the Principal Investigator for the CIHR Group in Membrane Biology from 1989 to 2003 and directed a Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International/Medical Research Council Group in Diabetic Nephropathy from 1996 to 2001.  She was a member of the Expert Committee for the “1998 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Diabetes in Canada” published in Canadian Medical Association Journal.

She is currently Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Canadian Society of Nephrology and Member of the Board for the Canadian Institute of Academic Medicine and the Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Center.

Dr. Whiteside earned her MD and PhD, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Certification in Nephrology from the University of Toronto.