Events
Seminar on "The Ethics of Community-based Mental Health Care – Using Assertive Outreach Treatment as a Model"
19 Oct 2023
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 n.n
LT2, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
Dr. Samuel Law, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Lead in China Project, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Dr. Samuel Law is an Associate Professor in psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. His clinical and research work focuses on areas of community mental health and health systems, with associated interests in cross-cultural psychiatry, global mental health, and medical-legal-ethical concerns related to the treatment of people with severe mental illness. His work and training are informed by best- practices in public health, community psychiatry, psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery, and social anthropology.
His past and current research projects include developing and evaluating innovative models in community mental health service delivery (e.g. Establishing and evaluating the first Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) model in North America; consulting, training and evaluation of the first Assertive Community Treatment model in China; developing and evaluating a national rural physician education program in mental health and suicide prevention in China); cross-cultural adaptations of service models (e.g. consulting and research on traditional Holy Water healers in Ethiopia), and exploration of clinical dilemmas (e.g. Covid-19 community health system adaptations and innovations in Ontario; use of financial incentives in engagement, UN Convention of Rights of People with Disability’s impact on clinical practice).
He is the Lead in the China Project at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and a Board member of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. He received his medical training at McGill University, Residency in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada; and Fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Masters in Public Health at Harvard University, USA.
Registration: The seminar is free of charge. If you are interested in taking part in the seminar, please register via the following link on or before 14 October 2023:
https://cuhk.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bdxsOp3SRyzPLZY
Miss Jasmine Chung: 39431861/ jasmine.chung@cuhk.edu.hk or Ms. Cici Lam: 39431709/ szewailam@cuhk.edu.hk
Language: English
