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Associate Professor  |  Full Member

Mark Sinyor

mark.sinyor@sunnybrook.ca

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Location
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Children’s Health, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Policy, Mental Health & Behavioral Conditions, Psychiatric Disorders
Research Themes
Population Health, Education
Accepting
Summer Undergraduate, MSc, PhD

Administrative Assistant: Anjali Hardial, 416-480-4070, Anjali.hardial@sunnybrook.ca

Research Synopsis

Dr. Mark Sinyor is a Psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research mainly focuses on population-level strategies for suicide prevention including research using coroner data to understand suicide and its prevention as well as media data to understand how media messaging impacts suicide. He is also involved in school-based research and randomized controlled trials both focused on intervention for mood and anxiety disorders with an emphasis on suicide prevention.

Dr. Sinyor is the International Association for Suicide Prevention’s “Partnerships for Life” lead for the Americas. He is lead author of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) guidelines on responsible media reporting about suicide. He has also created a free mental health literacy curriculum that teaches middle schoolers coping skills and distress managements while reading "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in English language class.