Team

Our
Team

We are a collaboratory of students, fellows, researchers, healthcare professionals, and collaborators with diverse professional backgrounds, multidisciplinary areas of content expertise, and lived experiences.

We are always looking for thoughtful and talented people to join our team. Please get in touch!
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Team
members

Daniel Buchman
Iris Coates McCall
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Lucy Panko
Kate Tsiandoulas
Brooke Magel
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Micaela Forte
Emily Rowland

Collaborators

Karen D. Davis, Ph.D., FCAHS, FRSC
Professor; Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist and Head; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour. Krembil Brain Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network 
@kren27

Gord Garner
Vice President Strategic Partnerships 
Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA)
@GordGarner1

Quinn Grundy, PhD RN
Assistant Professor
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
@QuinnGrundy

Sean L. Hill, PhD
Scientific Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Professor, University of Toronto
@wake_sleep

 Jenny Lau, MSc, MD CCFP (PC)
Medical Director, Harold and Shirley Lederman Palliative Care Centre, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
@JelauPC

Sarah Levitt BA.Sc, MSc, MD FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto & Staff Psychiatrist (IMPACT & Inpatient Programs), University Health Network

Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc
The Hospital Research Foundation Clinical Research Fellow in AI Ethics , The Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN) AI Director, WCHN, Adjunct Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
@MMccradden 

Aaron Orkin MD MSc MPH PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Clinician Scientist, Unity Health Toronto
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto
Director of Population Health, Inner City Health Associates

Sanjeev Sockalingam, MD, MHPE, FRCPC
Chief Medical Officer and Vice-President, Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
@SanjSockalingam

Sophie Soklaridis, PhD
Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Family and Community Medicine
@SSoklaridis

Gillian Strudwick, RN, PhD, FAMIA
Scientist & Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
@gstrudrn

Abhimanyu Sud, MD, PhD, CCFP
Assistant Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Research Chair, Primary Care and Population Health Systems, Humber River Hospital 
@doc_sud

Past Students, Fellows, and Research Assistants

  • Grace Bannerman, M.Sc.Com
  • Rachel Cooper, MBE
  • Samuel Dale, BA
  • A. Lee de Bie, PhD, MHSc
  • Esther Davies, MHSc
  • Monica de Oliviera, MHSc
  • Zahra Hasan, MHSc
  • Rachel Hong, BA
  • Katrina Hui, MD, MS
  • Daphne Imahori, BA
  • Rachel Katz, MA
  • Amy Kim, BA
  • Sarah Levitt, MSc, MD
  • Lauren Notini, PhD
  • Kristie Serota, PhD
  • Rajita Sharma, BA
  • Robert Ure, MD
  • Dawn van Engelen, MHSc, RD
  • Denitsa Vasileva, BSc, MSc
  • Sapna Wadhawan, BA
  • Charlotte Wun, BA
  • Yezarni Wynn, MD
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Daniel Buchman, PhD, RSW (he/him/his)
Director, Everyday Ethics Lab
Bioethicist and Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr Daniel Buchman is a Bioethicist and Scientist at CAMH, an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T, a Member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and an Affiliate Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network. Daniel’s leading research, scholarship, and education in bioethics draws upon a transdisciplinary toolkit of theoretical as well as empirical approaches. He has also taught a graduate seminar in Empirical Approaches to Bioethics at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics since 2015. Daniel has held Bioethics leadership positions throughout his career. He recently completed his term as a Board Member of the Canadian Bioethics Society and is currently a Member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Advisory Committee on Ethics. He is a widely sought-after mentor and speaker.

Daniel has a background in social work, and it was during his training that he became attuned to how densely woven patterns of disadvantage and privilege shaped the lives of the people he worked with. “My training in social work and as a practising healthcare ethicist was pivotal in grounding my theoretical orientation towards issues of justice as well as everyday ethics,” he says. “I witnessed the types of ethical decisions patients, families, healthcare teams, and administrators faced daily. These were not only big ethical decisions, but ordinary ones as well—the ethically charged and often deeply distressing moments during routine healthcare encounters. This has informed my research ever since.”

Iris Coates McCall, MBE
Research Analyst

Iris is a Research Analyst at CAMH in the Education Department. Her current work focuses on chronic pain and the effect of differing disease explanations on the associated stigma. With a bachelors in cognitive neuroscience from McGill University and a Masters of Bioethics from Johns Hopkins, her passion lies in neuroethics and the social, ethical, political, and legal implications of novel neurotechnologies. She likes brains, canoes, and knitting.

Project (s)

Stigma and the Brain Disease Model of Chronic Pain: An Empirical Bioethics Investigation

Lucy Panko, Masters of Bioethics Student, Harvard Medical School

Lucy is currently pursuing a Master’s of Bioethics at Harvard Medical School with a focus on psychiatric ethics. She has been a part of the Everyday Ethics lab, since her final year research project of her Undergraduate Health Studies degree where she conducted palliative psychiatry research. Additionally, she completed a minor in Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health, and you can find her in her spare time practicing and teaching yoga/mindfulness.

As a member of the Everyday Ethics Lab, she is continuing to work on the palliative psychiatry project, which she finds very meaningful both professionally and personally. She is looking forward to collaborating with Everyday Ethics lab mates to investigate ethical dilemmas within psychiatry.

Project(s)

Palliating mental illnesses: Developing innovative approaches in mental health care

Kate Tsiandoulas, MBE
Research Coordinator

Kate Tsiandoulas is a Research Coordinator in the Education Department at CAMH. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto with majors in Bioethics and Health Studies. During her undergraduate studies she worked as a research assistant at SickKids Hospital in the Bioethics Department and at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Afterwards, she completed her Masters in Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University where she wrote her thesis on hormonal contraception misinformation on TikTok. Kate then worked in DC for a year in regulatory health policy focusing mostly on clinical trials and prescription drug advertising. Kate is very interested in how the work of policy makers, ethicists and researchers can intersect to improve patient experience and outcomes. Outside of work Kate enjoys reading and her lifelong quest of finding the world’s best chocolate chip cookie.

Project(s)

Palliating mental illnesses: Developing innovative approaches in mental health care

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Brooke Magel (she/her)
Research Analyst

Brooke Magel (she/her) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Disability Studies and Psychology from Western University. She actively integrates her lived and learned expertise into her work. Since starting on her research journey in 2018, Brooke has engaged in qualitative and mixed-method studies across the fields of education, health equity, critical disability studies, and bioethics often guided by phenomenology and social constructivist paradigms. 

Outside of the lab, you can find Brooke with a bubble tea in one hand and Nerds Gummy Clusters in the other. She’s busy dismantling the patriarchy on the hockey rink and soccer field, playing video games, and pursuing her traveling goals such as visiting every continent (5/7 completed) and visiting 30 countries before turning 30, and she’s already crossed off 24.

Project(s)

Stigma and the Brain Disease Model of Chronic Pain: An Empirical Bioethics Investigation

Micaela Forte, MSc
PhD Student

Micaela is a Research Placement Student at CAMH and a PhD student in the Social and Behavioural Health Sciences program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the intersection of mental and public health ethics. Micaela completed both her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and her MSc in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University, where she was also an active member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. During her graduate studies, she undertook a clinical ethics observership with the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC).

Micaela’s master’s research explored the ethical intricacies surrounding children’s medical decisions, focusing on the tensions between children’s best interests, parental authority, and the role of healthcare providers in guiding treatment choices. The insights gained from this research sparked her interest in the broader ethical issues faced in mental health care, particularly at the intersection of public health and pediatric ethics. This led her to CAMH, where she continues to explore how ethical frameworks can be applied to improve mental health outcomes for children and youth, while also addressing systemic challenges in public health ethics.

In her free time, Micaela enjoys trying new recipes, attending Pilates classes, and travelling to new places around the world. So far, her favourite place that she has visited is Brazil.

Project(s)

Palliating mental illnesses: Developing innovative approaches in mental health care

Emily Rowland, MSc

Emily Rowland is a Registered Nurse with a Masters of Science in Health Systems from the University of Ottawa, and currently a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has worked clinically in level III NICUs as well as in behavioral health settings with individuals experiencing mental health crises.  Emily’s non-clinical background includes employment in a variety of research and academic settings such as with the maternal and child health unit at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and as an evaluation expert with University Health Network in Toronto, Canada.  She brings forward an expertise in delivering trauma informed care to individuals in times of crisis and vulnerability. For her doctoral work, Emily is exploring the relationships between provider substance use stigma, bioethics, and care delivery in neonatal intensive care units. Emily used to enjoy quiet afternoons reading, doing yoga, and moving her body in meaningful ways but now she spends her time building car ramps and playing dinosaurs with her two toddlers.