Letters

Dr. Hiram Mok, MA, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPC, Outpatient Psychiatry Executive Lead at Vancouver Coastal Health (MHSUOPS, Access & Assessment […]

Dr. Xin Yan She, Psychiatrist at Vancouver General Hospital and former University of Toronto resident, wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/apuut0yumowivuhua1moa/Letter-in-support-of-AIM-program_FINAL.pdf?rlkey=ptbrwbgpq9onoxqjeriwvxzs9&st=8nxmx4rm&dl=0 Dr. Lewis-Fernández, senior cultural psychiatry expert—director of a cultural competence center at Columbia and past president of both WACP

Dr. Azaad Kassam, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and

Professor and Child and Cultural Psychiatrist Dr. Guzder, with long experience at McGill and now UBC writes to condemn the

Prof. Dr. Mario H. Braakman, psychiatrist, ethnologist, and President of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, wrote to Dr. Kevin

2025-08-19 Stephen McLeod-Bryant, MD, President of Black Psychiatrists of America Inc. Wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith, President & CEO of UHN for their urgent support for the restoration of AIM.

2025-08-18 Dr. Eric Jarvis, Chair, Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the CPA and a cultural psychiatrist at McGill University with over 30 years of experience, wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith, President & CEO of UHN to express his Concern about dissolution of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health (AIM).

2025-08-14 Debbie Douglas (Executive Director) and Alfred Lam (President) of OCASI wrote to Dr. Kevin Smith CEO, UHN.

August 4, 2025 – Sue Chan, President, FCCP (Ontario) and Roslyn M. Tsao, President of FCCP Education Foundation (Ontario write to Dr. Kevin Smith, CEO, UHN.