
Sonu Gaind
@psych_md
@UofT Professor & Governor, psychiatrist, mental health advocate, Hon Mmbr 🌍PsychAssoc'n: {literal, figurative & photographic} perspective seeker; views my own
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https://www.drsonugaind.com/ 23-04-2013 06:20:00
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2023 🇨🇦 #AssistedSuicide report is out Check sources of suffering driving #MAiD. Wonder what #MAiDapologist response will be to rationalize why almost half of (otherwise non-dying) disabled ppl get euthanized fueled by loneliness Trudo Lemmens Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻🦽 Yuan Yi Zhu Maria Cheng



fyi will be on TVO.me TVO Today | The Agenda w/host Steve Paikin and other colleagues tonight (Jan 15) at 8pm and 11pm ET, discussing data re:MAiD and #assistedsuicide tvo.org/theagenda Trudo Lemmens UofTPsychiatry University of Toronto Ontario Medical Association

Wow Isabel Grant, such a well deserved honour, congratulations! Keep up the great work, and bringing much needed insight and awareness of these important issues!

Hi I am a #Schulich MBA, spoiler alert but yes, that hashtagged word does come up...but you need to wait till close to the end! also for those who aren't able to watch TVO broadcasting on tv in Ontario or elsewhere, the show will also be streamed on Youtube at youtube.com/@tvotoday at

Thanks to TVO Today | The Agenda for the opportunity to discuss #MAID on TVO with Steve Paikin and others. Excellent points made by Sonu Gaind on the significant concerns surrounding the data. youtube.com/watch?v=fqVQx2… Cardus

Momentus day Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as we successfully move into our new Garry Hurvitz 🧠 Sciences Centre. A great step for patient and staff experience, and world leading brain sciences collaborations. Big TY to all and many who worked for years to make this happen!


From earlier this month, but never too late to re-post stuff like this...great achievement Team Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and a special shout out to my remarkable colleagues in psychiatry/mental health/brain🧠sciences...including our "top doc" psychiatrists (Drs. Rob Jaunkalns, Anthony Levitt

Governing Council just welcomed the next President of the University of Toronto, Professor Melanie Woodin...a wonderful choice...Looking forward to her inspired leadership of our university!


Looking forward to book launch University of Toronto UofT Faculty Club tomorrow with co-editors R Coelho & Trudo Lemmens! We will livestream Apr 15, 6:15ET, you can register for that here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… & *huge* TY to all the authors, it's been quite a journey! eventbrite.com/e/unravelling-…

Thrilled to share video of our Unravelling MAiD book launch, w/R Coelho & Trudo Lemmens, University of Toronto UofT Faculty Club earlier this week. We've generated transcript w/synchronized cc. youtu.be/-udwv3xhOAU TY for everyone's engagement. Precisely what is needed to counter the ableist


In the latest @UofTmagazine, w/Trudo Lemmens - The Hidden Risks of Expanding Medical Assistance in Dying magazine.utoronto.ca/opinion/risks-… (timely...given United Nations CRPD recently entreating 🇨🇦 to repeal Track 2 expansion (and not euthanize ppl just for mental illness and addictions))

Just up in The American Journal of Bioethics my latest piece "A (White) Senator, Doctor and Lawyer Walk into a Bar…and Appropriate the Assisted Dying Narrative" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Trudo Lemmens Temerty Medicine Ontario Medical Association Ontario Psychiatric Association CanPsychiatricAssoc Inclusion Canada Yuan Yi Zhu Alexander Raikin

From earlier this wk, on The Hard Shoulder Irish NewstalkFM radio w/Kieran Cuddihy. Eager to hear your thoughts on arguments made (by me, & those by DWD Canada Board member Chantal Perrot) LINK: open.spotify.com/episode/3iFAUR…


Honoured and deeply touched to receive the American Psychiatric Association Profile in Courage Award yesterday at #APA2025...appreciative of the award, and even more, humbled to be nominated and recognized by incredible colleagues I hold in such high regard...Thank you!
