Publications

Publications

(Trainee names are underlined.)

2025

Sudan, H. K., Buchman, D. Z., & Illes, J. (2025). Toward Prognostic Humility for Unrepresented Patients at the End of Life. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(9), 103–105. 

Kubica, A., Evans-Durán, B., Buchman, D.Z., and Orkin, A.M. (2025). Advocating for Cash Incentives Instead of Gift Cards in Public Health Research: Dollars over Donuts. Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Baharikhoob, P., Maslej, M., Wong, A. H. C., Mulsant, B., Blumberger, D., Courtney, D. B., Husain, M. I., Kurdyak, P., Kleinman, R. A., Torfason, A., Gajaria, A., Diaconescu, A., Ma, A., Sonley, A., Abramovich, A., Crawford, A., Petronis, A., Fage, B., Orchard, C., Buchman, D. Z., Liu, F., Strudwick, G., Lam, J. S. H., Berrevoets, M., Mozuraitis, M., Reid, N., Husain, M. O., Ali, S., McMain, S., De Luca, V., Stergiopoulos, V., Lunsky, Y., & Zaheer, J. (2025). Characterizing suicidal thoughts and behaviours in individuals presenting to a psychiatric emergency department: A protocol for a multimethod approach for suicide prevention research. BMJ Open, 15(4), e087561. 

Westermair, A. L., Trachsel, M., Kious, B., Buchman, D.Z., Levitt, S. (2025). Special Report: Palliative Psychiatry: An Innovative Approach to Caring. Psychiatric News 60 (4).

Katz, R. A., Graham, S. S., & Buchman, D. Z. (2025). The need for epistemic humility in AI-assisted pain assessment. Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 10.1007/s11019-025-10264-9.

Serota, K., Atkinson, M., Upshur, R., & Buchman, D. Z. (2025). Dignity narratives in complex MAiD bereavement stories: A critical qualitative analysis. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 15(3), 1-17

Buchman, D. Z., Magel, B., Shier, R., Davies, T. E., Sud, A., Mahajan, S., Timothy, R. K., Soklaridis, S., & Grundy, Q. (2025). Canadian cannabis researcher perspectives on the conduct and sponsorship of scientific research by the for-profit cannabis industry. Social science & medicine (1982), 364, 117556.

Scott, W., Buchman, D. Z., & VasiIiou, V. S. (2025). The Multi-Dimensional Stigma of Chronic Pain: A Narrative Review. Current Opinion in Psychology 62: 101980.

2024

Davis, K. D., de Oliveira, M., Besik, A., & Buchman, D. Z. (2024). Neuroethical issues in adopting brain imaging for personalized chronic pain management: Attitudes of people with lived experience of chronic pain. Canadian Journal of Pain, 8(2). 

Hasan, Z. S., & Buchman, D. Z. (2024). An Educational Framework for Healthcare Ethics Consultation to Approach Structural Stigma in Mental Health and Substance Use Health. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1–14. 

Buchman, D.Z. (2024). AI and the ethics of techno-solutionism in pain management. PAIN. Article in Press. 

Magel, B., & Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Self-determination and alcohol use: Exploring the intersection of ethics and harm reduction for people with intellectual disabilities. In A. Bianchi and J.A. Vogt (Eds). Intellectual disabilities and autism: Ethics and practice (pp. 383-395). Cham: Springer.

Rosenbaum, D., Hare, C., Hapke, E., Herman, Y., Abbey, S.E., Sisti, D., and Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Experiential training in psychedelic-assisted therapy: A risk-benefit analysis. Hastings Center Report, July-August, 32-46.

Golafshani, M., Buchman, D.Z., & Husain, M.I. (2024). Disability rights and experiential use of psychedelics in clinical research and practice. npj Mental Health Research,3(34), 1-3.

Levitt, S., Cooper, R.B., Gupta, M., Kirby, J., Panko, L., Rosenbaum, D., Stajduhar, K., Trachsel, M., Vinoraj, D., Westermair, A.L., Woods, A., & Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Palliative psychiatry: Research, clinical, and educational priorities. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 13(3), 542-557.

Buchman, D.Z., & Rosenbaum, D. (2024). Psychedelics in PERIL: The commercial determinants of health, financial entanglements and population health ethics. Public Health Ethics, 17(1-2), 24-39.

Lee, A., Rosenbaum, D., Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Informed consent to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: Ethical considerations. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Online first.

Guta, A., Gagnon, M., German, D., Buchman, D.Z., Strike, C.J. (2024). Resisting inadequate care is not irrational, and coercive treatment is not an appropriate response to the drug toxicity crises. American Journal of Bioethics, 24(5), 42-45.

Cooper, R.B., Levitt, S.E., Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Humanizing patients and their needs might affect psychiatrists’ thinking about futility. AJOB-Neuroscience, 15(1), 64-67.

Stergiopoulos, V., Bastidas-Bilbao, H., Gupta, M., Buchman, D.Z., Stewart, D.E., Rajji, T., Simpson, A.I.F., van Kestern, M.R., Cappe, V. , Castle, D., Shields, R.,  & Hawke, L.D. (2024). Care considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for persons with mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition: patient and family perspectives. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 120.

Artna, E., Abi-Jaoudé, A., Sockalingam, S., Perry, C., Johnson, A., Wun, C., Kozloff, N., Henderson, J., Levinson, A., Buchman, D.Z. (2024). Understanding attitudes and beliefs regarding COVID-19 vaccines among transitional-aged youth with mental health concerns: A youth-led qualitative study. BMJ Open, 14, e080707. 

2023

Serota, K., Buchman, D.Z., Atkinson, M. (2023). Mapping MAiD discordance: A qualitative analysis of the factors complicating MAiD bereavement in Canada. Qualitative Health Research. In press.

Serota, K., Atkinson, M., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Unacknowledged pain and disenfranchised grief: A narrative analysis of physical and emotional pain in complex MAiD bereavement stories. Canadian Journal of Pain, 7(2), 1-8.

Buchman, D.Z., Imahori, D., Lo, C., Hui, K., Walker, C., Shaw, J., Davis, K.D. (2023) The influence of novel predictive technologies on judgments of stigma, empathy, and compassion among healthcare professionals. AJOB-Neuroscience. In press.

McCradden, M.D., Hui, K., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Evidence, ethics, and the promise of artificial intelligence in psychiatry. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49, 573-579.

Rosenbaum, D., Cho, M., Schneider, E., Hales, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Ethical Considerations at the Intersection Between Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and Medical Assistance in Dying. AJOB-Neuroscience, 14(2), 139-141.

Rosenbaum, D., Hales, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Access to psychedelics for psychological suffering at the end of life: Prioritizing our priorities. Healthcare Policy, 18(4), 11-16. [Invited Commentary]

Bastidas-Bilbao, H., Stergiopoulos, V., van Kesteren, M.R., Stewart, D.E., Cappe, V., Gupta, M., Buchman, D., Simpson, A.I.F., Castle, D., Campbell, B., Hawke, L.D. (2023). Searching for relief from suffering: A patient-oriented qualitative study on Medical Assistance in Dying for mental illness as sole underlying medical condition. Social Science & Medicine. In Press, 331, 116075.

Sikstrom, L., Maslej, M., Findlay, Z., Strudwick, G., Hui, K., Zaheer, J., Hill, S.L., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Predictive care: A computational ethnographic approach to building fair models of violence in emergency psychiatry. BMJ Open, 13,

Buchman, D.Z., Lo, S., Ding, P., Dosani, N., Fazelzad, R., Furlan, A., Isenberg, S., Spithoff, S., Tedesco, A., Zimmermann, C., Lau, J. (2023). Palliative care for people who use drugs during communicable disease epidemics and pandemics: A scoping review on access, policies, and programs and guidelines. Palliative Medicine, 37(4), 426-443.

Grundy, Q., Imahori, D., Mahajan, S., Timothy, R., Sud, A., Soklaridis, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2023). Canadian big cannabis companies and the sponsorship of scientific research: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(1), e0280110.

Tang, V.M., Goud, R., Zawertailo, L., Selby, P., Coroiu, A., Sloan, M.E., Chenoweth, M.J.A., Buchman, D., Ibrahim, C., Blumberger, D.M., Le Foll, B.. (2023): Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Smoking Cessation: Next Steps for Translation and Implementation into Clinical Practice. Psychiatry Research, 326, 115340.

de Bie, A.L. Buchman, D.Z., (2023). Why neuroethical analyses of invasiveness in psychiatry should engage with mental health service user knowledges and considerations of social in/justice. AJOB Neuroscience, 14(1), 25-28

2022

Westermair, A.L., Buchman, D.Z., Levitt, S., Perrar, K.M., Trachsel, M. (2022). Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and broad sense – a concept clarification. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56(12), 1535-1541.

Sud, A., Strang, M., Buchman, D.Z., Spithoff, S., Upshur, R., Webster, F., Grundy, Q. (2022). How the Suboxone education programme presented as a solution to risks in the Canadian opioid crisis. BMJ Open, 12, e059561.

Lau, J., Ding, P.Q., Lo, S., Furlan, A.D., Isenberg, S.R., Spithoff, S., Tedesco, A., Zimmermann, C., Buchman, D.Z. (2022). Palliative care interventions for people who use substances during communicable disease outbreaks: A scoping review. BMJ Open, 12, e063040.

Khorasheh, T., AbuAyyash, C.B., Mallakin, M., Sellen, K., Corace, J., Pauly, B., Buchman, D., Hamilton, M., Boyce, N., Ng, K., Strike, C., Taha, S., Manson, H., Leece, P. (2022). Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1-4.

Sharma, R., Dale, S.A., Wadhawan, S., Anderson, M., Buchman, D.Z. (2022). Identifying the presence of ethics concepts in chronic pain research: A scoping review of neuroscience journals. Neuroethics, 15, 21.

Guta, A., Buchman, D.Z., Schmidt, R.A., Perri, M., and Strike, C. (2022). Trauma-Informed Approaches in Healthcare Ethics Consultation: A Missing Element in Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs during the Overdose Crisis?, The American Journal of Bioethics, 22, 5, 68-70.

Chandler, J.A., Van der Loos, K.I., Boehnke, S., Beaudry, J.S, Buchman, D.Z., and Illes, J. (2022). Brain Computer Interfaces and Communication Disabilities: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Decoding Speech From the Brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 841035.

Sud, A., Salamanca-Buentello, F., Buchman, D.Z., Sabioni, P., Majid, U. (2022). Beyond Harm-producing versus Harm-reducing: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis on the Perspectives and Experiences of People Who Use Drugs on Buprenorphine Extramedical Use and Diversion. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 135, 108651.

Sud, A., Buchman, D.Z., Furlan, A., Selby, P., Spithoff, S.M., Upshur, R.E.G. (2022). Chronic pain and opioid prescribing: Three ways for navigating complexity at the clinical-population health interface. American Journal of Public Health, 112(s1), S56-S65.

Joolaee, S., Ho, A., Serota, K., Hubert, M., Buchman, D.Z. (2022). MAID legalization positive aspects from hospice and palliative care providers’ perspective. Nursing Ethics, 29(1), 231-244.

Sikstrom, L., Maslej, M., Hui, K., Findlay, Z., Buchman, D.Z., Hill, S. (2022). Conceptualizing fairness: Three pillars for medical algorithms and health equity. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 29, e100459.

2021

Buchman, D.Z., Ding, P., Lo, S., Dosani, N., Fazelzad, R., Furlan, A.D., Isenberg, S.R., Spithoff, S., Tedesco, A. Zimmermann, C., Lau, J. (2021). Palliative care for people who use substances during communicable disease epidemics and pandemics. BMJ Open. 11, e053124.

Furlan, A.D., Deldar, Z., Berezin, L., Clarke, H., Bogden, B.J., Buchman, D.Z. (2021). An analysis of the #CovidPain tween chat during the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020. Cureus, 13(10), e18871.

Levitt, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2021). Applying futility in psychiatry: A concept whose time has come. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47, e60.

Greenberg, R., Goldberg, A., Anthony, S., Buchman, D.Z., Delaney, S., Gruben, V., Holdsworth, S., Le Foll, B., Leung, M., Lien, D., Lynch, M-J., Selzner, N., Chandler, J.A., Fortin, M-C. (2021). Ethical and Legal Considerations for Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Solid Organ Listing and Allocation. Transplantation, 105(9), 1957-1964.

Westermair, A.L., Buchman, D.Z., Levitt, S., Trachsel, M. (2021). Palliative psychiatry for severe and enduring anorexia nervosa includes but goes beyond harm reduction. American Journal of Bioethics, 21(10), 60-62. Invited Commentary.

Serota, K., Buchman, D.Z. (2021). Why people living with mental illnesses should have been prioritized earlier for COVID-19 vaccines. University of Toronto Medical Journal, 98(3), 8-11. Invited Commentary.

Chandler, J.A., Van der Loos, K.I., Boehnke, S.E., Beaudry, J.S., Buchman, D.Z., Illes, J. (2021). Building communication neurotechnology for high stakes communication. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 22, 587-588.

Plahouras, J.E., Konstantinou, G., Kaster, T.S., Buchman, D.Z., Foussias, Daskalakis, Z.J., Blumberger, D.M. (2021). Treatment capacity and clinical outcomes for patients with schizophrenia who were treated with electroconvulsive therapy: A retrospective cohort study. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(2), 424-432.

Soklaridis S, Cooper RB, de Bie A. (2021) “Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”: Insights from psychiatric service user engagement. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 41(4), 263-267.

Ashcroft R, Menear M, Greenblatt A, Silveira J, Dahrouge S, Sunderji N, Emode M, Booton J, Muchenje M, Cooper RB, Haughton A, McKenzie K. (May 2021). Patient perspectives on quality of care for depression and anxiety in primary health care teams: A qualitative study. Health Expectations, 24(4), 1168-1177.

Mahajan, S., Meyer, S.B., Neiterman, E. (2021). Identifying the impact of social networks on mental and emotional health seeking behaviours amongst women who are refugees from Syria living in Canada. Global Public Health. 

Aboueid, S., Meyer, S.B., Wallace, J.R., Mahajan, S., Nur, T., Chaurasia, A. (2021). Use of symptom checkers for COVID-19-related symptoms among university students: a qualitative study. BMJ Innovations. 

Ho, A., Norman, J., Joolaee, S.,Serota, K., Twells, L., & William, L. (2021). How does medical assistance in dying affect end-of-life care planning discussions? Experiences of Canadian multidisciplinary palliative care providers. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 15, 1-14.

Serota, K. (2021). Quilting resistance to the Sleep Industrial Complex: A narrative account of sleeplessness. Art/ Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 6(2), 468-477.

2020

Serota, K., Bannerman, E.G., Hong, R., Buchman, D.Z. (2020). News Media Representations of Responsibility for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Requiring Liver Transplantation. Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 3(3), 61-75.

Plahouras, J.E., Mehta, S., Buchman, D.Z, Foussias, G., Daskalakis, Z.J, Blumberger, D.M. (2020) Experiences with legally mandated treatment in patients with schizophrenia: a systematic review of qualitative studies. European Psychiatry, 63(1), e39.

Bell, J.A.H., Schmilovich, Z., Buchman, D.Z., Escaf, M., Costello, J., & Messner, H.A. (2020). First ready, first to go: Ethical priority-setting of allogenic stem cell transplant at a major cancer centre. Healthcare Policy, 15(3), 102-115.

Leece, P., Shantharam, Y., Hassam, S., Buchman, D.Z., Hamilton, M., Persaud, N. … Furlan, A.D. (2020). Improving opioid guideline adherence: Evaluation of a multifaceted, theory-informed pilot intervention for family physicians. BMJ Open, 10, e032167.

Hui K, Cooper RB, Zaheer J. (2020). Engaging patients and families in the ethics of involuntary psychiatric care. American Journal of Bioethics, 20(6), 82-84.

Cooper RB. (2020). Complicated gratitude: A letter to my mother’s physician. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 192(4), E97-E98. 

2019

McCradden, M.D., Vasileva, D., Orchanian-Cheff, A., Buchman, D.Z. (2019). Ambiguous identities of drugs and people: A scoping review of opioid-related stigma. International Journal of Drug Policy, 74, 205-215.

Buchman, D.Z. (2019). The ethics of opioids: A bioethicist’s harrowing encounter with prescription painkillers highlights systemic healthcare problems. A review of: In Pain, by Travis N. Rieder. Science, 365(6450), p.228.

Notini, L., Vasileva, D., Orchanian-Cheff, A., Buchman, D.Z. (2019). Ethical issues associated with solid organ transplantation and substance use. A scoping review. Monash Bioethics Review, 37(3), 111-135.

Buchman, D.Z., Wadhawan, S. (2019). A global vision for neuroethics needs more social justice: Brain imaging, chronic pain, and population health inequalities. American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience, 10(3), 130-132.

Downar, J., Shemie, S.D., Gillrie, C., Fortin, M-C., Appleby, A., Buchman, D.Z., Shoesmith, C., Goldberg, A., Gruben, V., Lalani, J., Ysbaert, D., Wilson, L., Sharpe, M.D. (2019). Deceased organ and tissue donation after medical assistance in dying and other conscious and competent donors: Guidance for policy. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 191(22), E604-E613.

Wynn, Y., Spithoff, S., Buchman, D.Z. (2019). Cannabis legislation provides an opportunity to strengthen a primary are approach to substance use counselling. Canadian Family Physician, 65, 777-779.

Cassin, S.E., Buchman, D.Z., Leung, S., Kantarovich, K., Hawa, A., Carter, A., Sockalingam, S. (2019). Ethical, stigma, and policy implications of food addiction: A scoping review. Nutrients, 11, 710.

Orkin, A.M., McArthur, A., Venugopal, J., Kithulegoda, N., Martinuk, A., Buchman, D.Z., Kouyoumdjian, F., Rachlis, B., Strike, C., & Upshur, R. (2019). Defining and measuring health equity effects in research on task shifting interventions in high-income countries: A systematic review. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 7. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100366.

Soklaridis S, de Bie A, Cooper RB, McCullough K, McGovern B, Beder M, Bellisimo G, Gordon T, Berkhout S, Fefergrad M, Johnson A, Kalocsai C, Kidd S, McNaughton N, Ringsted C, Wiljer D, Agrawal S. (December 2019). Co-producing Psychiatric Education with Service User Educators: A Collective Autobiographical Case Study of the Meaning, Ethics, and Importance of Payment. Academic Psychiatry, 44, 159-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-019-01160-5.

Mahajan, S., Meyer, S.B. (2019). Social and structural factors that influence refugee women’s use of mental health care services in Canada: a narrative review. Journal of Health and Social Sciences, 4(3), 345-358. https://journalhss.com/wp-content/uploads/jhss43_345-358.pdf

2018

Buchman, D.Z., & Davis, K. (Eds.). (2018). Pain Neuroethics and Bioethics. Cambridge: Elsevier/Academic Press.

Davis, K.D., & Buchman, D.Z. (2018). Introduction to pain neuroethics and bioethics. In, D.Z. Buchman & K.D. Davis (Eds). Pain neuroethics and bioethics (pp.1-10). Cambridge: Elsevier/Academic Press.

Kofi, S.L., Sud, A., & Buchman, D.Z. (2018). Ethics at the intersection of chronic pain and substance use. In, D.Z. Buchman & K.D. Davis (Eds). Pain neuroethics and bioethics (pp.127-150). Cambridge: Elsevier/Academic Press.

Buchman, D.Z., Lynch, M-J. (2018). An ethical bone to PICC: Considering a harm reduction approach for a second valve replacement for a person who uses drugs. American Journal of Bioethics 18(1), 79-81. Invited Commentary.

Orkin, A.M., McArthur, A., McDonald, A., Mew, E., Martinuk, A., Buchman, D.Z., Kouyoumdjian, F., Rachlis, B., Strike, C., & Upshur, R. (2018). Defining and measuring health equity effects in research on task shifting interventions in high-income countries: A systematic review protocol. BMJ Open, 8, e021172.

Yazdani, S., Buchman, D.Z., Wright, L., Chandler, J.A. (2018). Organ donation and medical assistance in dying: Ethical and legal issues facing Canada. McGill Journal of Law and Health, 11(2), 59-85.

Buchman, D.Z., Orkin, A.M., Strike, C.J., Upshur, R.E.G. (2018). Overdose education and naloxone distribution programs and the ethics of task-shifting. Public Health Ethics, 11(2), 151-164.

2017

Buchman, D.Z., Leece, P.N., Orkin, A.M. The epidemic as stigma: The bioethics of opioids. (2017). Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 45(4), 607-620.

Weiss, M.J., Hornby, L., Rochwerg, B., van Manen, M., Dhanani, S., Sivarajan, V.B., Appleby, A., Bennett, M., Buchman, D., … Shemie, S. (2017). Canadian guidelines for controlled pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death—summary report. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(11), 1035-1046.

Leece, P.N., Buchman, D.Z., Hamilton, M., Timmins, C., Shantharam, Y., Moore, J., Furlan, A. (2017). Improving opioid safety practices in primary care:  protocol for the development and evaluation of a multi-faceted, theory-informed pilot intervention for health care providers. BMJ Open, 7, e013244.

 Buchman, D.Z., Ho, A., Goldberg, D. S. (2017). Investigating trust, expertise, and epistemic injustice in chronic pain. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 14(1), 31-42.

Fortin, M.C., Buchman, D.Z., Wright, L., Chandler, J., Delany, S., Fairhead, T., … Humar, A. (2017). Public solicitation of anonymous organ donors: A position paper by the Canadian Society of Transplantation. Transplantation, 101(1), 17-20.

Heesters, A.M., Buchman, D.Z., Anstey, K., Bell, J.A.H., Russell, B.J., Wright, L. (2017). Power of attorney for research: The need for a clear legal mechanism. Public Health Ethics, 10(1), 100-104.

Other
publications

Buchman, D.Z. (2020). Ethical decision-making and mass casualty incidents. Hospital News, January: https://issuu.com/hospitalnews/docs/hn_january_2020_edition_1e125f88682757?fr=sY2RjYzc5NDAz.

Buchman, D.Z. (2019). Ethical issues in chronic pain management, treatment and research. Hospital News, May: https://issuu.com/hospitalnews/docs/flip_042719_hospital_news_edit_final.

Buchman, D.Z. (2018). Ethics and the stigma of mental illness and addiction. Hospital News, October 28: https://issuu.com/hospitalnews/docs/hospital_news_october_2018.

Serota, K., & Buchman, D.Z. (2017). The opioid epidemic is an epidemic of stigma. Blog post on Impact Ethics: https://impactethics.ca/2017/08/08/the-opioid-epidemic-is-an-epidemic-of-stigma/