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PsychEd Episode 45: Perinatal Psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen

PsychEd Episode 45: Perinatal Psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers perinatal psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University and Scientist, RI-MUHC, Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program, Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

PsychEd Episode 44: Reproductive Psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen

PsychEd Episode 44: Reproductive Psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers reproductive psychiatry with Dr. Tuong Vi Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University and Scientist, RI-MUHC, Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program, Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

PsychEd Episode 43: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Emma Hapke and Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum

PsychEd Episode 43: Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Emma Hapke and Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with Dr Emma Hapke and Dr Daniel Rosenbaum, both of whom are psychiatrists at the University Health Network in Toronto and co-founders of UHN’s Nikean Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research Centre (in addition to being lecturers in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto).

PsychEd Episode 42: Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with Dr. Paula Ravitz

PsychEd Episode 42: Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) with Dr. Paula Ravitz

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) with Dr. Paula Ravitz, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Senior Clinician-Scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mt Sinai Hospital. Dr. Ravitz held the Morgan Firestone Psychotherapy Chair at Mount Sinai Hospital from 2011 to 2021 and is a past president of the International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

PsychEd Episode 40: Suicide Epidemiology and Prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer

PsychEd Episode 40: Suicide Epidemiology and Prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer

This episode covers suicide epidemiology and prevention with Dr. Juveria Zaheer, a Clinician Scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and Education Administrator in the Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan Emergency Department at CAMH in Toronto, Ontario. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand suicide and identify areas of potential improvement.

PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Dr. Sandhya Prashad

PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Dr. Sandhya Prashad

This episode covers ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with Dr. Sandhya Prashad, a psychiatrist and the founder and medical director of Houston Ketamine Therapeutics. She has extensive expertise using ketamine and is one of the most experienced ketamine psychiatrists in the United States, with her clinical practice focusing on TRD and incorporating transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), sometimes in conjunction with ketamine.

PsychEd Episode 30: Anti-black Racism and Mental Health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie

PsychEd Episode 30: Anti-black Racism and Mental Health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie

This episode covers anti-black racism and mental health with Dr. Kwame McKenzie. Dr. McKenzie is an international expert on the social causes of illness, suicide, and the development of effective, equitable health systems. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a staff psychiatrist and Director of Health Equity at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

PsychEd Episode 27: Serotonin Pharmacology: From SSRIs to Psychedelics with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris

PsychEd Episode 27: Serotonin Pharmacology: From SSRIs to Psychedelics with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris

In this episode, we begin to explore the neurobiology of the serotonin system — along with key pharmacological agents (SSRIs and classical psychedelics) that act on this system — with guest expert Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, a neuroscientist and head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London.