Gaurav Sharma
Board Member, Governance and Partnerships Lead

Gaurav is a staff psychiatrist who completed his residency training at the University of Toronto. He has an academic interest in prevention and early response to psychosis and understanding psychotic illnesses from a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial lens, including learning from people with lived experience. He is a regular contributor to PsychEd podcasts and has a passion for knowledge translation to make scientifically complex topics more easily accessible to learners and the public. In his free time, he enjoys learning about urban planning, biking around the city, and listening to hip hop.

Sena Gok
Board Member

Sena is a research fellow at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. An international medical graduate and avid learner in psychiatry, she brings experience in addiction, psychedelic therapy, and homelessness studies. Currently pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric mental health, she shares her passion for medical education through various podcasts. Beyond work, she enjoys volleyball and outdoor adventures.

Vincent Tang

Vincent is a PGY4 psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto, where he also went to medical school. Before this, he did his undergrad at the University of British Columbia, studying both physiology and psychology. He is passionate about the intersections of social justice, health equity, queer health, and mental health. In his free time, you can find him struggling to run around the city with its abundance of traffic, video gaming, and eating his way through his favourite sushi restaurants in Toronto.

Shaoyuan Wang

Shaoyuan is a PGY4 psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto, where she also completed her MD. She is interested in outpatient and emergency psychiatry in the community. She hopes to create helpful and easily digestible episodes for her fellow learners through PsychEd. In her spare time, she likes petting cats, travelling, and decorating her home.

Kate Braithwaite

Kate is a medical doctor from South Africa with experience in HIV management and family medicine. She first listened to PsychEd when she took over a primary healthcare psychiatry clinic and needed to quickly revise psychiatry topics. Her interests include child and adolescent psychiatry and sustainability and equity in healthcare. She is currently a stay at home mom and can usually be found in one of North York’s parks, running, reading, or — more likely — herding her three feisty and fantastic girls.

Angad Singh
Executive Director

Angad is a PGY1 psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. He completed his BHSc and MD at McMaster University, where he picked up a knack for having deep conversations and asking big questions about the mind, often to put off studying. You can get him excited about anything in psychiatry, but his particular interests include acute care, psychotic disorders, and the lived experience of patients. Outside the hospital, you can find him café hopping, biking around the city, and catching the latest films. As our new executive director, Angad is excited to take PsychEd in new and innovative directions with the team!

Wendy MacMillan-Wang
Engagement Lead

Wendy is a PGY4 psychiatry resident at the University of Manitoba. She completed her BSc at McGill University and her MD at the University of Manitoba. You can frequently spot her tornado-ing around various emergency departments in Winnipeg, doing ER psych consults left and right. Her career interests include adult emergency psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry, as she finds herself drawn to acute psych management and psychopharmacology. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her three cats and husband, learning DIY home renovations, wine tasting, and collecting owl Squishmallows. Did she mention she likes cats? As the Engagement Lead, she is excited to represent PsychEd on various platforms and have her bubbly personality shine through her posts.

Matthew Cho

Matt is a third-year medical student at the University of Toronto. He has been hooked on all things psychiatry ever since his introduction to it during his undergrad in the humanities. Specific interests of his include psychedelic medicine, the ethics of psychiatry, palliative psychiatry, and the intersection between psychiatry and the humanities. Outside of medicine, he is a big reader, film nerd, concert goer, and an up and coming foodie — so let him know if you need any Toronto recommendations!

Alex Raben
Co-Founder, Past Executive Director

Alex is a staff psychiatrist previously at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), now working in private practice. He is a co-founding board member, host, and past executive director for PsychEd. He has a passion for helping people with chronic mental illness using the recovery model. Alex’s other interests include medical education/scholarship, leadership, and — surprise, surprise — podcasts. He can also occasionally be found having fun running on trails or hanging out at his local toastmasters club.

Nikhita Singhal
Board Member, Production Lead

Nikhita is a PGY5 child and adolescent psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto, where she also completed her general psychiatry residency training. She is passionate about engaging in social justice and advocacy work, striving for patient empowerment, and contributing to medical education. Specific areas of clinical interest include psychedelic-assisted therapy, substance use and eating disorders, and working with underserved/marginalized youth… she also loves travelling as far and wide as possible, flooding her synapses with epinephrine, hiking, yoga, photography, and cats!

Sarah Hanafi
Board Member, Research Lead

Sarah is a clinical fellow at the University of Toronto. She completed her psychiatry residency and BSc at McGill University, and her MD at the University of Alberta. She grew up in Fort McMurray and Edmonton, Alberta — but tries to fool everyone into thinking she’s a native Montrealer. Between medical education and leadership, transcultural psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry, Sarah doesn’t get easily bored. When she’s not strolling the hospital wards, she spends her time engaged in advocacy work, wielding her pen, and scouting Toronto’s famed indie cafes.

Saja Jaberi

Saja is an international medical graduate who completed her MD in the United Arab Emirates. Her passion for psychiatry started during fifth-year medical school and solidified while working as a clinical trial coordinator at Toronto Western Hospital’s Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit. She is interested in exploring the shifting tide of conventional psychiatry through innovative clinical trials. Her passions include immigrant mental health and assertive community treatment teams, and she is committed to empowering immigrants and marginalized communities while volunteering at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. Outside work, she considers herself a professional café loiterer, proudly declaring she can have unlimited caffeine without consequences then questioning why she never gets any sleep. She’s also not modest about how she can kill the dance floor with a bilaterally torn ACL.

Alastair Morrison

Alastair is a PGY1 psychiatry resident at McMaster University, where he also completed his MD. He has a PhD in literary studies from Columbia University and worked as an English professor before medical school. His interests include phenomenological aspects of psychiatric nosology and diagnosis, public perceptions of psychiatry and their effects on access to mental healthcare, and the humanities in medical education. He loves travelling with his spouse and two kids, reading (and occasionally writing) poetry, and any chance to cook outdoors.