Clinician Scholar Profiles

I am passionate about improving psychiatric care for underserved communities through the exploration of patient narratives and by developing more effective psychotherapy interventions. My interests include psychotherapy and cultural psychiatry research using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. I will be starting subspecialty training in child-adolescent psychiatry in July 2025.

My current CSP project with Dr. Tim Guimond focuses on how adverse childhood experiences and trauma impact sexualized methamphetamine use and psychosis among men who have sex with men; our group is currently creating a novel psychotherapy intervention for methamphetamine use. I am also in the process of developing a new qualitative research project that examines explanatory models of psychosis among newcomer youth.

Dr. Wegdan Rashad is a psychiatry resident with an interest in perinatal and women's mental health, mood and anxiety disorders as well as quality improvement.

Claire Stanley holds an MD from University of Toronto. She is currently a resident in the University of Toronto's Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty training program. Her research interest surrounds exploring novel intensive outreach services for older adults with severe mental illness. She is working with Dr. Sarah Colman and Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos to study a novel psychogeriatric assertive community treatment team using a quality improvement approach.

Dr. Claire Stanley on ResearchGate

Dr. David Wiercigroch is an Addiction Psychiatry Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is a graduate of the UofT General Psychiatry Residency Program and is completing a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME). Dr. Wiercigroch conducts population-based research focused on improving access to care and treatment outcomes for individuals with substance use disorders. His current project examines entry into bed-based community treatment programs after substance-related emergency department visits in Ontario. He is also interested in the role of measurement-based care in psychiatry and is involved in quality improvement and research to increase its uptake in mental health care settings.

Co-Supervisors: Dr. Tanya Hauck & Dr. Paul Kurdyak

Dr. David Wiercigoch on Google Scholar