Sophie Soklaridis PhD

Senior Scientist and Scientific Director, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Chair, Equity and Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Education Research
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Vice-Chair, Mental Health Equity & EDIIA, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Sophie Soklaridis is a Senior Scientist and Scientific Director at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is the inaugural Research Chair of Recovery and Equity-Focused Mental Health Education Research. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Family & Community Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Vice-Chair of Mental Health Equity and EDIIA at the Department of Psychiatry. She is a Scientist at Wilson Centre for Research in Education. Her research takes a critical sociological approach on the issues of power, identity and relationships. Her scholarly foci include patient/clients as partners in research and mental health education and the influence of power and privilege on academic medicine. She is a widely published and well-funded scientist who has received multiple awards for her research.