Dr. Daniel Buchman is a bioethicist and scientist in Education Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). He is also an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and an affiliate scientist in the Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network.
In addition, he is a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Advisory Committee on Ethics.
Areas of Research
Dr. Buchman’s general research area explores ethical issues at the intersection of clinical practice and population health. His primary areas of research interest include ethical issues related to mental health, substance use, and chronic pain. Themes related to stigma, social justice, identity, and compassion feature prominently in his work, and he has a longstanding teaching interest in empirical approaches to bioethics. His research draws upon a multi-disciplinary toolkit of conceptual and empirical methods, and has been funded by agencies including CIHR, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and an AMS Healthcare Fellowship in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence. Some of Dr Buchman’s current projects explore ethical issues related to stigma, chronic pain, and neurotechnologies; industry-healthcare relationships and conflicts of interest; opioids; psychedelics; palliative approaches to mental health care, and big data and artificial intelligence.
Publications
View Dr. Buchman’s publications on Google Scholar.
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