Joseph Ferenbok

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Driven to improve patient care, Prof. Ferenbok catapults projects forward with passion, wisdom, and a contagious chuckle. He is an Associate Director of the Health Innovation Hub, a Faculty of Medicine initiative intended to connect, align, serve, and facilitate the translation, innovation, and commercialization of 'Health Matters'. Here at the TRP, Prof Ferenbok is our inspirational Founder and Program Director. He is also a Course Director for Foundations in TR and for Methods in Practices and Contexts, and the Instructor for the Translational Thinking module.

Dr. Ferenbok is an Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Director and founder of the Translational Research Program (TRP). Driven to improve patient care, he catapults projects forward with passion, wisdom, and a contagious chuckle while training students to use creative problem-solving to translate research towards innovation in health sciences. 

He is also an Associate Director of the Health Innovation Hub (H2i), a Temerty Faculty of Medicine initiative intended to connect, align, serve, and facilitate the translation, innovation, and commercialization of ‘Health Matters’; and the Founder and Chief Ideator at the Ideation Clinic - an initiative intended to help people from all disciplines and backgrounds generate, develop and improve the quality and potential efficacy of their innovative ideas.

His passion is bringing people together through collaborative problem-solving to understand and develop systematic approaches for mobilizing knowledge. Dr. Ferenbok aims to aid in developing more efficient and effective design of person-centric interventions (from diagnostics and therapeutics to medical procedures and behavioral change) that improve the health of individuals and the public. He is fascinated by trying to see from different perspectives and approach problems from unconventional ways.

Courses taught

• LMP 2300Y: Foundations in Translational Research
• LMP 2330Y: Capstone Project in Translational Research
• LMP 2301Y: Projects in Translational Research
• LMP 2344: Translational Thinking

Honours and Awards

LMP Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate Education , University of Toronto (2022)