Cyril WC Kendall, Ph.D. is a Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto, and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center at St. Michael's Hospital. 
 
He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Honors BSc and graduate degrees, MSc and PhD. During his post-doctoral studies he conducted research and received training at: Purdue University and the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.
 
He joined the David Jenkins research group in 1994 as a Research Associate and has been conducting clinical trials primarily in the areas of dietary fibers, lipids, plant proteins and phytochemicals and chronic disease risk reduction. His primary research interest is the role of diet in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease (cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity) and the development of functional foods and nutraceuticals to control these disease states. 
 
Dr. Kendall has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and has been invited to present at numerous international conferences. His studies on combining cholesterol lowering food components (dietary portfolio) have been recognized as creating an effective dietary alternative to drug therapy (statins) for many people and were the only dietary approach referenced in the Current Guidelines of the US National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III). To make therapeutic diets more accessible, he has devoted much time to working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket with specific health attributes.