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Clinical pharmacology & toxicology

Dr. Karen Binkley
Dr Karen Binkley

Clinical Immunologist & Allergist, Drug Safety Clinic

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Ave., Room UG-00
Toronto, ON
M4N 3M5


Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 63061
Fax: 416-480-5229

Dr. Binkley obtained her Honours BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario in 1978 and her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1984. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto 1987, and then spent a year on staff as a Clinical Associate at Mount Sinai Hospital. She completed her subspecialty fellowship training in Clinical Immunology and Allergy, also at the University of Toronto in 1990. She has been a member of the Drug Safety Clinic since 1990.

Professional Affiliations

  • University of Toronto Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
  • St Michael’s Hospital, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Division of Respirology and Clinical Immunology
  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Internal Medicine 1987, Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1990)
  • Member of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
  • Member of the Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology Society of Ontario
  • Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
  • Member of the Ontario Medical Association
  • Member of the Canadian Hereditary Angioedema Network
  • Member of an International Research Consortium for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association

For additional information, see Dr. Binkley's website.