June Lam
MD, PhD, FRCPC
Qualification
- BSc (2010), MD (2014), FRCPC (2019), Youth Psychiatry Fellow (2020), PhD (2024)
Professional Memberships
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, CPSO, CMPA
Dr. June Lam, MD, PhD, FRCPC received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his medical training at McGill University and his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto. He also completed a transitional age youth and trans health fellowship, as well as a PhD program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He also works as a psychiatrist in the CAMH Emergency Department and the Gender Identity Clinic, which supports trans and gender diverse patients interested in medical transition. He was appointed as an Associate Scientist at the CAMH Institute for Mental Health Policy Research (IMHPR), where he is focusing on health services research related to access to mental healthcare for sexual and gender minorities. He has developed expertise in mixed methods research integrating health administrative data and qualitative research. His overall academic and clinical focus is on care for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.
Research Synopsis
Research interests: 2SLGBTQ+ mental health, mixed methods research, qualitative research, clinical epidemiology, health services research, cultural psychiatry.
Recent Publications
MacKinnon KR, Jeyabalan T, Strang JF, Delgado-Ron JA, Lam JSH, Gould WA, Cooper A, Salway T. Discontinuation of Gender-Affirming Medical Treatments: Prevalence and Associated Features in a Nonprobabilistic Sample of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults in Canada and the United States. J Adolesc Health. 2024 Oct;75(4):569-577. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.05.015.
Lam JSH, Keating L, Lawford C, McNeil J, Marcus N, Yager C, Taylor J, Matthews D, Fage B, Quick N, Pangarov P, Iftikhar A, Baici W, Vitopoulos NA. Identifying and intervening on the social determinants of health are key mental health interventions for transgender and gender diverse people. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. 2024 Aug;28(4):494–507. doi: 10.1080/19359705.2024.2391714.
Gould WA, MacKinnon KR, Lam JSH, Enxuga G, Abramovich A, Ross LE. Detransition Narratives Trouble the Simple Attribution of Madness in Transantagonistic Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis of 16 Canadians' Experiences. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2024 Jun;48(2):247-270. doi: 10.1007/s11013-023-09838-0.
Abramovich A, Gould WA, Pang N, de Oliveira C, Iwajomo T, Vigny-Pau M, MacKinnon K, Lam JSH, Kurdyak P. Exploring Mediators of Mental Health Service Use Among Transgender Individuals in Ontario, Canada. Can J Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;68(12):933-948. doi: 10.1177/07067437231171541.
MacKinnon KR, Gould WA, Enxuga G, Kia H, Abramovich A, Lam JSH, Ross LE. Exploring the gender care experiences and perspectives of individuals who discontinued their transition or detransitioned in Canada. PLoS One. 2023 Nov 29;18(11):e0293868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293868.
Verbeek W, Baici W, MacKinnon KR, Zaheer J, Lam JSH. "Mental Readiness" and Gatekeeping in Trans Healthcare. Can J Psychiatry. 2022 Nov;67(11):828-830. doi: 10.1177/07067437221102725.
Kirubarajan A, Barker LC, Leung S, Ross LE, Zaheer J, Park B, Abramovich A, Yudin MH, Lam JSH. LGBTQ2S+ childbearing individuals and perinatal mental health: A systematic review. BJOG. 2022 Sep;129(10):1630-1643. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17103.
Lam JSH, Abramovich A, Victor JC, Zaheer J, Kurdyak P. Characteristics of Transgender Individuals With Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Mental Health. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 Jul;73(7):722-729. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202100306.
Lam JSH, Links PS, Eynan R, Shera W, Tsang AKT, Law S, Fung WLA, Zhang X, Liu P, Zaheer J. "I thought that I had to be alive to repay my parents": Filial piety as a risk and protective factor for suicidal behavior in a qualitative study of Chinese women. Transcult Psychiatry. 2022 Feb;59(1):13-27. doi: 10.1177/13634615211059708.
Hana T, Butler K, Young LT, Zamora G, Lam JSH. Transgender health in medical education. Bull World Health Organ. 2021 Apr 1;99(4):296-303. doi: 10.2471/BLT.19.249086.
For further publications, please see list on PubMed.
Appointments
CAMH
Grants
2024: Academic Scholar Award, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto