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Dr. Yatham, professor and head, UBC Department of Psychiatry, is director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Freeland, board chair of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, is currently vice president of Education, Academic Affairs and Patient Experience at Trillium Health Partners, and associate dean, Mississauga Campus, at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. The focus of her clinical work is the care of people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.

Dr. Derryck Smith has been an advocate for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) since the Sue Rodriquez case in 1994. He has testified in the Carter case 2014 and to parliament on Bills C-14 and C-7. He is a past board member of Dying with Dignity Canada and the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. He is an active member of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Committee on MAiD.

Dr. Tyler Black is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who works both at the University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, primarily in urgent and emergency cases. He is the author of the ASARI, a leading practice for suicide risk documentation and the co-author of HEARTSMAP, a psychosocial assessment tool for triaging health and social needs, as well as the co-author of the Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adolescents. He has a primary research and teaching interest in suicide and suicidology, and has testified before both the House of Commons as well as the Canadian Senate regarding medical assistance in dying. He maintains a newsletter on suicidology at suicidology.substack.com.