Dr Gubbay is a medical microbiologist and paediatric infectious diseases physician at PHL-OAHPP. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto and staff physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He is the microbiologist for the virus detection, molecular diagnostics and respiratory bacteriology laboratories at OAHPP. He is co-chair of the Laboratory Working Group of The Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic and is a member of the Pandemic Influenza Laboratory Preparedness Network, Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network. He has a research interest in the molecular epidemiology and diagnosis of respiratory and vaccine preventable viral infections, and emergence of antiviral resistance.