Dr. Simon C. Ling

Titles

Current Positions

• Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto since 2003
• Works in close cooperation with the liver transplant team at Sick Kids
  

Fields of Research

• Paediatric liver disease
• Diagnosis, management, complications and outcomes of portal hypertension in children

• Genetic determinants of liver disease due to cystic fibrosis and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  

Education and Training

• Graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Trained in paediatrics in the United Kingdom
• Training in paediatric gastroenterology in Glasgow, Scotland
• Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
• British Digestive Foundation Research Training Fellowship in 1997-1998

Experience

• Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland