Complex lives, mental health and stigma

Dr. Arielle Salama – Understanding emotion dysregulation

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 […]

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Dr. Samantha Green & Dr. Michaela Beder: Serving People Experiencing Homelessness

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

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Dr. Reed Siemieniuk: The intimate partner violence and HIV syndemic

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.

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Dr. Jon Hunter: The role of early life experience in adaptation to illness

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

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