Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Simpson is a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and holds the Research Chair in Forensic Psychiatry at CAMH and the University of Toronto.
He is also a full professor in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
He has served in directorial and advisory roles on multiple national and international forensic organizations. He is a member of the editorial board of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry Open, International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Rassegna Italiana of Criminologia and the International Journal of Risk and Recovery. He is a member of the Council of Reviewers of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
He has over 140 refereed papers in the scientific literature, as well as one book, many book chapters and monographs. He is an occasional columnist for The Globe and Mail.
Areas of Research
His academic, teaching and research interests are in the area of the interaction of the law and people with serious mental illness (SMI): how we understand pathways to risk, into criminal justice system and for therapeutic intervention and recovery. He is committed to improved understandings, services, outcomes and jurisprudence for persons with SMI who are criminal justice involved. Always interested in the ethical dimensions of psychiatric work, he has been increasingly involved in the debates surrounding around Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).
Publications
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