CSP Alumni Profiles
Danielle Baribeau
Degree(s): M.D., M.Sc. (candidate)
Program (Year): CSP Graduate Stream
Email: danielle.baribeau@mail.utoronto.ca
I attended the University of Toronto for medical school and subsequently residency training in general psychiatry, and then child and adolescent psychiatry. After residency, I began a clinical research fellowship at SickKids in medical psychiatry, with a focus on neuropsychiatric and developmental assessment of children with genetic variants. For my PhD in clinical epidemiology, I have been examining longitudinal predictors of anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder. My current research goals involve applying data science methods to identify biological predictors of treatment outcomes in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Supervisor(s): Drs. Simone Vigod, Peter Szatmari, Evdokia Anagnostou
Lucy Barker
Degree(s): MD
Program (Year): CSP Graduate Stream, (Fellow)
Email: lucy.barker@utoronto.ca
My research interests include women’s mental health, reproductive psychiatry, psychiatric services, and the social determinants of
mental health. I am in the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research program through the Institute for Health Policy,
Management and Evaluation. My PhD thesis uses Ontario population-level data to explore the outcomes of postpartum women who
visit the emergency department for mental health care, and takes an intersectional feminist approach to understand gaps in care and
disparities for women experiencing multiple forms of marginalization. My goal is establish a research program that improves the design
and delivery of mental health services for marginalized women.
Project Title: Maternal postpartum psychiatric emergencies: applying an intersectional feminist framework to understand outcomes and
better identify groups of women whose care needs are not being met
Supervisor(s): Dr. Simone Vigod
North de Pencier
Dr. North de Pencier has a BA (Hons) from the University of Chicago in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and an MD from Western University. Her research centers around the history of psychiatry.
Supervisors: Dr. Allison Crawford, MD PhD and Dr. Omair Husain, MBBS, MRCPsych
Tanya Hauck
Dr. Tanya Hauck MD PhD FRCPC is completing the Bellwood Fellowship in addictions psychiatry and also currently completing a MSc degree in clinical epidemiology through the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the clinical epidemiology of substance use disorders and their treatment, and the treatment of comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders.
Katrina Hui
Katrina Hui is a psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. Before completing medical school at McMaster University, she received a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Philosophy from Stanford University and an M.S. in Bioethics at Columbia University. She has published work in ethics, advocacy, and addictions, including in The Lancet and Psychopharmacology. She is currently a Clinician-Scientist-in-Training pursuing mixed methods mental health services research with a main research focus on implicit bias in medicine.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Juveria Zaheer
Tyler Kaster
I’ve been passionate about research since my undergraduate degree in Medical Biophysics. Because of my background, I initially wanted to be a radiologist and therefore completed research in cardiac PET imaging. However, because of my clinical experiences I was drawn to psychiatry. Since starting my psychiatry residency I have been involved in brain stimulation research which allows me to leverage my biophysics training. In the future I hope to develop a career as a clinician scientist using brain stimulation as a technique to better understand and treat psychiatric illness.
Bushra Khan
My parents have always been my fiercest advocates. As a child, my family moved continents to ensure that I received an education that would lead me to a boundless future. My parents’ example encouraged me to consider the lives of individuals with few advocates and how I could change their circumstances. My clinical work with underserved communities reinforced my research interests and I chose to partake in the Clinician-Scientist Program initially under the supervision of Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, the Physician-in-Chief of CAMH. My work evaluates the Supporting Transitions and Recovery Education (STAR) Learning Centre. Our team elucidated the features differentiating STAR from other services, formulated the mechanisms that underlie the theory of change and determined health outcomes of participants. In PGY4, I have transitioned to forensic psychiatry projects under the supervision of Dr. Sandy Simpson. My current projects focus on examining the criminal justice system and intersectionality, most recently amongst culture and race. As a Clinician-Scientist, I utilize rigorous research methods to create and evaluate interventions for individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and inform health policy initiatives to serve marginalized populations. For my commitment to marginalized communities, I have received the Ontario Volunteer Medal and the Governor General of Canada’s Caring Canadian Award
Aneta Krakowski
I completed my undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. For my Master’s degree, I worked under the supervision of Dr. Paul Frankland at the Hospital for Sick Children researching adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus using mouse models. I completed medical school at the University of Toronto and developed an interest in child and adolescent psychiatry. I am particularly interested in working with children with autism and hope to intertwine my future clinical practice with research in order to learn how to best understand and treat children with autism and co-morbid mental health disorders.
Paul Kudlow
Degree(s): MD, PhD
Program (Year): Clinician Scientist Program (2019)
Email: paul.kudlow@mail.utoronto.ca
Paul is currently completing his residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Paul recently returned to residency from a 4-year leave of absence. In his leave, Paul launched and sold a technology business, TrendMD, as well as earned his PhD for research in the fields of bibliometrics, knowledge dissemination, and scholarly communication from the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto.
Project Title: Increasing the Reach, Usage, and Impact of Scholarly Content
Supervisor(s): Dr. Reinhart Reithmeier; Dr. Aviv Shachak
June Lam
June Lam is a youth psychiatry fellow and a PhD student in Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research at the University of
Toronto. He has a clinical and research interest in working with underserved and marginalized populations, including with transgender
and gender diverse, homeless, and new immigrant populations. He is part of the Clinician Scientist Program (CSP), working on a
CIHR-funded qualitative study understanding the suicidal behaviour of Chinese and Chinese-Canadian women. His PhD thesis uses
mixed methods to study access to acute and post-discharge mental health care for transgender and gender diverse individuals.
Dr. June Lam on PubMed
Jonathan Lee
Degree(s): HBSc, MD
Program (Year): CSP Graduate Stream
Email: chiaho.lee@utoronto.ca
At the beginning of my psychiatric training I was lucky enough to be connected with Dr. Daskalakis who was an ideal supervisor and mentor and was instrumental in fostering my interest in research. I am interested in becoming a clinician-scientist to find ways to integrate brain stimulation methods to better understand and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children and adolescents. For the past two years I have explored brain plasticity in healthy adolescents using a paradigm known as paired-associative stimulation. I hope to create new brain stimulation-based treatments to advance the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Project Title: Repetitive transcranial magnetic (rTMS) in youth depression: Efficacy and targets of response
Supervisor(s): Dr. Jeff Daskalakis
Joshua Rosenblat
Degree(s): MD
Program (Year): CSP Graduate Stream
Email: joshua.rosenblat@utoronto.ca
Ever since elementary school, I have been extremely interested in science and ‘doing experiments.’ This interest has grown greatly over the years as I have had the opportunity to work in several labs throughout my undergraduate degree as well as during medical school.
My main field of interest currently is the interaction between mood disorders and medical comorbidities (more specifically, inflammatory and metabolic disorders). Understanding the biological underpinnings of these interactions may lead to an improved understanding of the pathophysiology of mood disorders. This improved understanding may also allow for the discovery of novel therapeutic targets that may simultaneously treat mood disorders and medical comorbidities.
Project Title: Interactions between Mood Disorders and Medical Comorbidities
Supervisor: Dr. Roger S. McIntyre
Martin Rotenberg
Martin Rotenberg's research focus is on the role of social and environmental factors on the incidence of psychotic disorders and pathways to care. He is also interested in rehabilitation with ethnic minority individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. He will be starting a MSc. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in July 2019.
Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith is a fellow with a research interest in eating disorders. Her clinical research to date has focused on outcomes of inpatient eating disorder treatment, disease progression and eating disorder education. Additional areas of interest include emotional dysregulation in eating disorder treatment and eating disorder psychopharmacology. She also has research and policy interests in physician health that she has pursued locally and nationally with multiple physician organizations.
Victor Tang
Dr. Victor M. Tang is a Canadian resident physician in the clinician scientist program at the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Science in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, and completed his medical training at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. During his research and clinical training, he has published work on topics of oxidative stress in mood disorders, neuroimaging in stimulant addiction, history and clinical treatment of catatonia, and on Electroconvulsive Therapy and Magnetic Seizure Therapy. Currently his academic interests are in brain stimulation for treatment-resistant mental illness and addiction psychiatry.
Simina Toma
Degree(s): MD
Program (Year): CSP Pregraduate Stream
Email: simina.toma@utoronto.ca
My research interest stemmed from longstanding intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm about finding new ways to approach problems.
With its clinical complexity, treatment challenges, and strong biological basis with undeniable psychological impact, Bipolar Disorder is one the most fascinating psychiatric illness, and the cause of intractable suffering. I intent to contribute to the understanding of its development and progression, which can lead to treatment targets for early intervention.
My current project is aiming to investigate the biological underpinnings of the different bipolar subtypes, with the goal to assess whether neuroanatomical factors support the clinical distinctions between BD-I, II and NOS, as well as the inclusion of BD-NOS in the bipolar spectrum.
Project Title: Neuroimaging in youth Bipolar subtypes
Supervisor(s): Dr. Ben Goldstein
Lily Van
I completed my Bachelors of Health Sciences at McMaster University with a minor in psychology. Following this, I completed medical school at the University of Toronto. My research area of interest is in the genetics of schizophrenia in particular 22q11.2 deletion syndrome which confers a ~25% lifetime risk for schizophrenia. I currently work at the Clinical Genetics Research Program at CAMH and am studying predisposing factors and treatment of schizophrenia in individuals with this condition.