Dr. Clare Pain

Clare Pain, MD, MSc, FRCPC, D.Sc (Hon) Addis Ababa University (AAU), is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (UofT) and a psychoanalyst. She is a staff psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, and with others provides mental health services to the Cree Nations of James Bay through the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority. She also works with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture and Wanasah, a Black youth and trauma agency in Regent Park.

Dr. Pain is co-founder and senior strategist of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), a partnership between AAU and UofT, supporting graduate educational capacity in Ethiopia since 2003. She received an honorary doctorate from AAU for her contributions to psychiatry in Ethiopia. Her clinical and academic focus is unresolved traumatic experience, refugee mental health, and global mental health, and she has published widely, including Ogden P, Minton K, & Pain C. Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. New York, United States: W. W. Norton & Company 

Dr. Şerife Tekin

Dr. Şerife Tekin is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her work examines the intersections of mental health, selfhood, and emerging technologies in clinical practice.  Her recent book, Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science (Routledge, 2025), develops the Multitudinous Self Model, a framework for integrating patient testimony with scientific and clinical reasoning. Tekin has published widely on AI and mental health, including “Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy” (American Journal of Bioethics, 2025), and “Unintended Harms of Novel Predictive Technologies in Mental Disorder Treatment” (AJOB Neuroscience, 2024). Her work has been featured in Wired, Salon, Prevention, The Guardian, and NPR.

Moderators

Dr. Angela Ho

Dr Angela Ho is a psychiatrist in Toronto working on a case management team for marginally-housed individuals with psychotic, substance use and trauma disorders. She also has a part-time practice focused on family/couples therapy. Dr. Ho is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. She was President of the Ontario Psychiatric Association 2022-2024 and is Co-Chair of the OPA Education Committee. She previously served on the Ontario Medical Association Priority & Leadership Group and OMA Section on Psychiatry Executive. She formerly sat on the Board of Directors for Inner City Health Associates. 

Dr. Karen Shin

Dr. Karen Shin is Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and her clinical focus has been in general adult psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Currently, she leads an intensive case management team that provides care for patients with severe persistent illness and is involved in training psychiatry residents in UofT’s Department of Psychiatry Postgraduate Medical Education program. Her interest in transforming and improving health systems and the delivery of mental health care has led to involvement with the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the provincial Downtown-East Toronto Ontario Health Team. Dr. Shin has been part of the executive team since 2018 and founded, and co-leads, OPA’s Mental Health Law Reform Task Force.