Complex lives, mental health and stigma

Dr Lai Gwen Chan is an Associate Consultant at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore and completed a fellowship in HIV Psychiatry at St Michael’s Hospital. Her clinical and research interests are the neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV, Traumatic Brain Injury and other neurological disorders.

Dr. David S. Goldbloom completed an honours degree, majoring in government, at Harvard University and then attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he obtained an MA in physiological sciences. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at McGill University and is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Goldbloom’s

Francine Cournos, MD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology) at Columbia University. She is the Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project. Dr. Cournos has worked in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness since 1983, and has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy

Dr. Arielle Salama has worked as an outpatient psychiatrist at St. Michael’s Hospital and Sherbourne Health Centre. She did her medical training at Queen’s University and residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She has experience in Psychiatric Emergency Services, the Urgent Care Programme, Ambulatory Care, Dialectical Behaviour Skills group, and psychotherapy supervision for

Dr. Abdurrahman trained in psychiatry at McMaster University where she also completed some training in public health with a focus on public health aspects of mental illness. She joined the Department of Psychiatry at St. Joseph’s Health Centre on completing her residency training in psychiatry.

The Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Executive Committee and the Hauser Family formally recognized Marshall Forstein, MD as the recipient of the 2020 Stuart T. Hauser, MD, PhD Mentorship Award. For decades, Dr Forstein has dedicated himself to teaching and mentoring countless residents, students, and colleagues. His remarkable mentoring has had a deep impact. He has excelled

Dr. Lam did his medical training in Toronto, and worked for thirteen years as an emergency physician in Toronto. He now works in addictions medicine. He has also worked in international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Dr. Lam’s first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize,

Dr. Arielle Salama has worked as an outpatient psychiatrist at St. Michael’s Hospital and Sherbourne Health Centre. She did her medical training at Queen’s University and residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She has experience in Psychiatric Emergency Services, the Urgent Care Programme, Ambulatory Care, Dialectical Behaviour Skills group, and psychotherapy supervision for

Dr. Samantha Green is a family physician at the St. Michael’s Hospital Sumac Creek Health Centre in Regent Park. She also provides primary care once a week at Sound Times, a drop-in for those who are homeless, experiencing addiction, or involved in the criminal justice system. Her clinical work focuses on marginalized populations, especially those

Dr. Reed Siemieniuk is an internal medicine and clinician-investigator resident at the University of Toronto and PhD student in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. Reed led the development of a successful domestic violence universal screening program which led to several peer-reviewed publications and is being emulated in several clinics in the USA.