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. 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.

Dr. Jon Hunter is Head of the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Consultation and Liaison Division. At MSH he heads the hospital Consultation and Liaison program, and is also the Head of Psychosocial services in the Marvelle Koffler Breast Center. His clinical practice centers on the psychiatric care of cancer patients, with particular emphasis

Bill Gayner, BSW, MSW, RSW, developed Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy (EFMT), integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions into Emotion-Focused Therapy to help people address internal conflicts and unfinished business, cultivate deep healing and growth, and better navigate their lives. Bill is a registered social worker and psychotherapist in the Centre for Emotion and Psychological Health in Toronto where he

Dr. Berger was chief of St. Michael’s Department of Family and Community Medicine from 1997-2013, and currently serves as vice-chair of St. Michael’s Research Ethics Board, chair of Inner City Health Associates and associate professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Over his four-decade career, Dr. Berger has been a thorn in the side

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.