November 5th, 2025 – SSPC Webinar focuses on the closure of AIM

As part of the Cultural Psychiatry 101 Webinar Series, Dr. Francis Lu reviewed Part D of the DSM Outline for Cultural Formulation, emphasizing cultural elements of the patient and clinician/team/hospital relationship and their relevance to assessment, care planning, supervision, and service design. In this context, the RE-AIM Coalition, represented by Dr. Ted Lo and Dr. Josephine Wong, presented the impact and implications of the AIM closure at Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, detailing harms to access, trust, training, and research partnerships, and highlighting grave concern that “integration” had been invoked to dismantle culturally specific care without safeguards, transparency, or genuine community engagement. Discussants Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernández and Dr. Laurence Kirmayer discussed the clinical and systemic implications of AIM closure in the current anti DEI climate and underscored the need for coordinated advocacy to protect and restore culturally specific care.

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