Alpna Munshi

Dr. Alpna Munshi is a consulting and academic psychiatrist affiliated with CAMH and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She has worked in various clinics at CAMH since 2011, including the General Assessment Clinic, Mood and Anxiety Ambulatory Services, and the Women’s Trauma Service of the Integrated Day Treatment program. She completed her residency at the University of Toronto and medical school at Dalhousie University. She is an Assistant Professor and held the position of Director of international Medical Graduate Training with the Department of Psychiatry from 2013 - Dec. 2020. She has also been a psychiatric consultant to Women’s Health in Women’s Hands since 2011, where she works in a collaborative care model. She takes on interested learners at various stages in their medical training at WHIWH where she teaches from a trauma and culturally informed lens, including a senior selective for final year residents. She also consults part time to the Fred Victor Centre. She completed the Education Scholars Program in October 2020 through the Centre for Faculty Development.
 
Her clinical interests include working with marginalized populations, especially women from racialized communities, assessing and treating trauma with a focus on cultural factors, and working in interdisciplinary teams in health care settings. Academically, she is devoted to improving equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) in medical education and clinical spaces. She has been researching the experiences of IMG residents and has participated in a number of workshops as a leader and facilitator devoted to EDI training for faculty. She has been a core faculty member of the department’s Cultural Psychiatry block for the residency curriculum, and co-led the block with Dr. Kenneth Fung from 2013-2020

Research Synopsis

She has an interest in women's mental health, cultural psychiatry, collaborative care and supporting IMG trainees in our program.