Advances in Clinical Care for Gender Dysphoria

Presenters: Dr. Wayne Baici and Dr. June Lam.
Panelists: Dr. Kate Greenaway, Dr. Gordon McSheffrey, and Dr. Kinnon MacKinnon
Moderated by Dr. Raj Rasasingham, MD, FRCPC, Director of Continuing Professional and Practice Development. Hosted by CAMH.
Dr. Wayne Baici is a staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an Assistant Professor in the General and Health Systems Psychiatry Division at the University of Toronto. He has over a decade of clinical experience in Trans and Gender Diverse health care, and current Medical Head of the CAMH Gender Identity Clinic. He has interest in medical education and faculty development, including developing and contributing to fellowship education for the departments of Psychiatry, Family Medicine and Endocrinology, and as past co-lead for the ECHO Trans and Gender Diverse Healthcare program and LGBTQ2S+ Psychiatry Faculty Mentorship Group.
Dr. June Lam is a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender Identity Clinic in Toronto, Canada. He is also a PhD candidate in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. His thesis is a mixed methods study to understand trans and gender diverse people's experiences of acute mental healthcare (hospitalizations and emergency department visits) and access to post-discharge mental healthcare. His scholarship also includes a focus on teaching and practicing gender-affirming care. He is the current co-lead for the ECHO Trans and Gender Diverse Healthcare program.
Dr. Kate Greenaway, MD MPH CCFP FCFP, is a queer family physician who has been providing gender-affirming care as a part of her practice for 20 years. She has been a long-time advocate for queer and trans communities and has led changes to provincial health systems and medical training programs to improve health equity for 2SLGBTQ+ people. She is the medical director of a multi-province virtual gender-affirming care program and is a consultant at CAMH Gender Identity Clinic. She also teaches with the ECHO Trans and Gender Diverse Health Care program.
Dr. Gordon McSheffrey, MD, FRCPC, MSc is a Paediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Specialist. Dr. McSheffrey completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto. He completed his Paediatrics Residency and his Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Dr. McSheffrey practices general adolescent medicine with a focus on gender affirming care. Dr. McSheffrey also provides education on gender affirming care to health care providers through Project ECHO: Trans and Gender Diverse Health Care.
Dr. Kinnon R. MacKinnon, MSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Prior to joining YorkU, he completed a PhD in Public Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and fellowships in health professions education research (The Wilson Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine) and the social determinants of health (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy). Dr. MacKinnon’s interdisciplinary scholarship examines how gender-diverse people access and experience gender-affirming healthcare.
- Understand how to diagnose and treat Gender Dysphoria considering historical context
- Apply an affirming approach to mental health care for trans and gender diverse people
- Participate in a panel discussion with a multidisciplinary trans health team