"Ask an Expert" live session with Dr. Clare Pain

Do you have questions regarding your work and the mental health of newcomers?

We want to answer them.

Join the Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Project's "Ask the expert" session as we chat with Dr. Clare Pain. In this online live-session, you’ll be joining social, settlement and health service providers across Canada in asking our expert questions to support your everyday work with immigrants and refugees.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2019, 1:30-2:30pm EST

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Our expert:

Dr. Clare Pain, director, Psychological Trauma Program, Mount Sinai Hospital; Associate Professor of psychiatry, University of Toronto

                                          
Clare Pain is an associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; director of the Psychological Trauma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital; consultant at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT); co-project director of the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project (TAAPP); and coordinator of the University of Toronto-Addis Ababa Collaboration Program (TAAAC). She received an honorary PhD from Addis Ababa University in 2014, for her work in mental health.

Dr. Pain's clinical focus is on the assessment and treatment of patients, including refugees, who continue to suffer from the effects of psychological trauma. She has lectured and taught on various aspects of psychological trauma including trans-cultural aspects and global mental health. She has published a number of articles including two books: Trauma and the Body: a Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy with Pat Ogden and Kekuni Minton (Norton 2006); and The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, an edited book with Eric Vermetten and Ruth Lanius (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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