Authors & Editors
Dr. Leslie Buckley, MD MPH FRCPC
Chief Editor
Dr. Leslie Buckley is chief of the Addictions Division at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. She is an addiction psychiatrist and specializes in providing outpatient treatment for substance use disorders. She has a special interest in health system innovation in addiction treatment and creating collaborations to enhance care for people seeking help with substance use. Areas of specialized focus include women’s health, working with Children's Aid and virtual care interventions. Dr. Buckley is also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, with longstanding involvement in addiction education for medical students and residents. She has a keen interest in advocacy in medicine and health promotion with respect to substance use.
Dr. Osnat Melamed MD, MSc, MCFP
Dr. Osnat Melamed is a family and addictions physician at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a clinician-scientist with research interests in tobacco addiction and the intersections between substance use, mental health and physical health.
Dr. Alice Ordean, MD, CCFP (AM), MHSc, FCFP, FASAM
Dr. Ordean is a family physician and an addiction medicine consultant at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, where she is also the medical director of the Toronto Centre for Substance Use in Pregnancy (T-CUP). She is an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and an investigator with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at Unity Health Toronto.
Dr. Ordean developed the Addiction Toolkit content on alcohol use in pregnancy and contributed to the content on alcohol problems in women. She also updated the content related to opioid use and opioid use disorders.
Authors and Editors of previous versions (2010-2019)
- Chief editor: Kingsley Watts, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MRO
- Contributing editor: Meldon Kahan, MD, CCFP, FCFP, FRCPC
- Lisa Lefebvre, MDCM, CCFP, MPH, DABAM
- Jose Silveira, MD, FRCPC
- Sheryl Spifhoff, MD, CCFP Dip. ABAM