Administrative Staff

Administrative Offices: 4th Floor, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 

Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday 8:45am to 5:00pm. Administrative staff are working on a hybrid schedule, please email the individual to arrange an in-person meeting.

 

Psychology Administration
 

Alena Wasney

Department Manager

• Provide financial oversight of departmental budgets
• Manage appointed payroll
• Manage departmental space
• Manage USW staff
• Oversee fMRI billing
• Manage departmental operations

Room 4020
647-640-8272

alena.wasney@utoronto.ca

or

psy.manager@utoronto.ca

Shannon Halliwell-MacDonald

Front Desk Administrator

• Act as the first point of contact for general inquiries for the department
• Accept and track deliveries and mail
• Provide administrative support (sending communications, filing, scanning etc)
• Accept and track deferred and accessibility tests and exams
• Coordinate Department of Psychology Ethics Review Committee (DPERC) applications 
• Coordinate room bookings
• Coordinate fob requests (psy.fobs@utoronto.ca)

Room 4020
 

psy.info@utoronto.ca (general inquiries)

psy.fobs@utoronto.ca (fob requests)

psy.ethics@utoronto.ca (DPERC requests)

Suzanne Warren

Acting Front Desk Administrator

• Act as the first point of contact for general inquiries for the department
• Accept and track deliveries and mail
• Provide administrative support (sending communications, filing, scanning etc)
• Accept and track deferred and accessibility tests and exams
• Coordinate PSY100
• Coordinate room bookings

Room 4020
 

psy.info@utoronto.ca (general inquiries)

psy100.experiments@utoronto.ca (PSY100)

Natasha Lan

Assistant to the Chair

• Coordinate Academic HR processes, including faculty hiring, promotions, reviews and PTR
• Create and publish weekly PSY eDigest
• Manage the Chair's schedule
• Maintain People section of the PSY web site
• Provide administrative support

Room 4020
416-978-3406
psy.chair@utoronto.ca

 

Tamara Ferguson

Undergraduate Administrator

• Program and course administration
• Advise undergraduate program students
• Manage undergraduate Awards and Scholarships
• Manage undergraduate recruitment and admissions
• Coordinate academic timetable
• Recruit and hire course instructors and sessional lecturers

Room 4014
416-978-3407
416-578-4326
psy.undergrad@utoronto.ca
Dorothy Piniarski

Undergraduate Assistant

• Advise undergraduate program students
• Maintain UG communications (email listserv, Facebook, website updates)    
• Provide admin support for UG program and courses including room booking and hiring proctors
• Facilitate Mentorship Program and Alumni Relations events
• Assist Undergraduate Administrator

Room 4027
416-978-5168
psy.ug-assistant@utoronto.ca
Nora Sellers

Acting Undergraduate Assistant

• Advise undergraduate program students
• Provide support for undergraduate programs and courses
• Assist Undergraduate Administrator and assist with Mentorship Program, Alumni Relations events and UG communications

Room 4038
416-978-3142
psy.ug-assistant@utoronto.ca

 

Jennifer McCallum

Graduate Administrator

• Manage graduate admissions, orientation and recruitment
• Manage graduate student funding and awards
• Coordinate graduate timetable
• Coordinate graduate program completion
• Provide front‐line graduate student support and advising

 

Room 4034
416-978-3404

psy.graduate@utoronto.ca
Alicia Shirley

Graduate TA Coordinator

• Coordinate TA postings, assignments and hiring
• Manage subsequent TA appointments
• Manage PSY Doctoral Final Oral Examinations (FOE)
• Provide support to the Graduate Administrator

Room 4034 psy.ta@utoronto.ca

Valerie Grieco
(on leave)

Graduate TA Coordinator

• Coordinate TA postings, assignments and hiring
• Manage subsequent TA appointments
• Manage PSY Doctoral Final Oral Examinations (FOE)
• Provide support to the Graduate Administrator

Room 4034 psy.ta@utoronto.ca 

 

 
Angelica Angeles

Finance Officer

• Postdoctoral hiring requests including hiring, extensions and terminations/resignations
• Respond to subgrant inquiries
• Coordinate purchasing card requests and reconciliations
• Prepare monthly department operational accounts reports
• Coordinate departmental petty cash
• Assist with honorariums and casual contracts

 

Room 4090

All inquiries:

psy.finance@utoronto.ca

PSY Postdoctoral Requests:

psy.pdf@utoronto.ca 

PSY PCard Requests:

psy.pcard@utoronto.ca

Bethany Babinchak

Research Financial Officer

• Respond to all grant inquiries including CFI, CRC and ERA
• Prepare monthly and ad hoc reports for PI's research accounts
• Monitor PI research funds compliance and advise PIs
• Process research purchase orders and invoices
• Brokerage fees' inquiries for research accounts
• Monthly research accounts reconciliations

Room 4026 psy.research.finance@utoronto.ca
Nish Kandasamy

Finance and Payroll Officer

• Draft casual contracts and manage payroll for students, TAs, RAs, work study and casuals
• Update Kronos payroll record
• Process stipends and honorariums
• Manage payroll for sessional lecturers and course instructors
• Monthly payroll reconciliations

Room 4009 psy.payroll@utoronto.ca 
Neil Gonputh

Finance and Payroll Officer

• Assist with appointed payroll for faculty, appointed USWs, research associates, etc.
• Review and process non research invoices and purchase orders
• Review, reconcile fMRI charges and confirm them with PIs
• Review and process reimbursements
• Coordinate accountable advances
• Process departmental recoveries including computing backup, software, etc.

Room 4008

PSY Reimbursements:

psy.reimbursements@utoronto.ca 

ToNI Billing:

psy.mri.billing@utoronto.ca 

Nazma Shahria (on leave) Financial Clerk    

 

TBD

IT Administrator

• Create & develop policies/guidelines for the acceptable use of IT resources
• Oversee day-to-day operational needs for Psychology IT
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders for IT infrastructure-related projects
• Analyze and implement IT infrastructure solutions
• Review and assess requirements needed to meet IT project timelines

Room 558A
416-978-3396
psy.helpdesk@utoronto.ca
Sam Kim

Client Support Analyst

• Maintain IT infrastructure (lab servers, storage systems, firewall, network switches)
• Maintain virtual environments on servers
• Maintain back-up servers
• Provide security updates
• Provide technical support for hardware and software (including the fMRI facility)

Room 559
416-978-3396
psy.helpdesk@utoronto.ca
TBD

Client Service Analyst

• Provide technical support for hardware and software (including the fMRI facility)
• Manage Departmental software license purchases, installation and activation
• Maintain lab servers and track security certificates
• Maintain computer lab in room 560
• Maintain inventory of departmental IT assets

Room 559
416-978-3396
psy.helpdesk@utoronto.ca

 

 

Toronto Neuroimaging (ToNI)

Lars Kasper

fMRI Physicist

• Manage operations at the Toronto Neuroimaging (ToNI) Facility
• Review, approve and support new projects and protocols
• Develop, coordinate and integrate new MRI methods
• Provide training and education for ToNI users with regard to MR safety, MRI protocol selection and quality control, as well as image processing and analysis pipelines

Room 166A
325 Huron St. 
416-978-7613

psy.mri.info@utoronto.ca

psy.mri.physicist@utoronto.ca

John Milne  Lead fMRI Technologist

• Oversee day‐to‐day operational needs for the MRI ToNI Facility 
• Coordinate and perform magnetic resonance imaging procedures for research studies   
• Oversee and coordinate the installation and implementation of new equipment

325 Huron St. 
 
psy.mri.info@utoronto.ca