Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and cross-appointed to the Faculty of Medicine to teach anatomy.
As a faculty member, he held the rank of associate professor at the University of Manitoba. He has over 12 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students in various disciplines. His expertise spans programs such as nursing, kinesiology, biology, health sciences, and the physician assistant program, making him an ideal fit for the interdisciplinary nature of the new medical school teaching facility.
Dr. Gordon has approximately $1,000,000 in active research funding and will significantly add to UPEI's research portfolio. His research focuses on regulating mitochondrial function and metabolism during cardiac and skeletal muscle development and remodelling, including obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetic cardiomyopathy. His laboratory utilizes cellular, molecular, and multi-omics approaches in primary and immortalized cells, differentiated human-induced pluripotent stem cells, and conditional knockout mice. Dr. Gordon's research program, which is funded through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, a New Frontiers Research Fund, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and Diabetes Canada, holds great promise for advancing the understanding of these critical health issues.