Dr. June Lam is an Associate Scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also a psychiatrist working in the CAMH emergency department and the gender identity clinic.
He completed a Bachelor of Science Honours Pharmacology program at UBC, his medical training at McGill University, and his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto. He also completed a transitional age youth and transgender health research and clinical fellowship, as well as a PhD program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation or IHPME) at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lam was the recipient of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Master's Award and later a Doctoral Award. He has also received the Academic Scholar Award from the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry.
Areas of Research
Dr. Lam's academic and clinical focus is on care for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, particularly using health services research to examine and improve access to mental healthcare for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. He has developed expertise in mixed methods research, uniquely integrating health administrative data and qualitative research to leverage the strengths of participant lived experience and population-level data. He has supervised the completion of multiple scoping and systematic reviews on marginalized topics in 2SLGBTQIA+ health, such as the perinatal mental health experiences of LGBTQ2S+ childbearing people, and academic writing that offers clinical recommendations for improving care for TGD people based on existing high-quality research.
Dr. Lam has collaborated on other research in understudied areas in 2SLGBTQIA+ health, including examining the lived experiences of those who stop and/or reverse a gender transition (i.e., detransition), exploring the different pathways leading to detransition, and understanding the care needs of people with these life experiences. He has also led program evaluation research, including a qualitative study to evaluate the Toronto Mobile Crisis Intervention Team (MCIT), which is a service that responds to mental health crises in the community.
Publications
Please view a list of Dr. Lam's publications on Google Scholar.