Dr. Clare Pain is the clinical director for the Psychological Trauma Assessment Clinic at Mount Sinai as well as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on the assessment and treatment of patients with psychological trauma and transcultural aspects of psychological trauma. As well, she is known for establishing the TAAPP (Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project) in Ethiopa, a program aimed towards teaching residents psychiatry in an Ethiopian context.

Dr. Meir Steiner is a professor of Psychology and Behavioural Neurosciences under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University. He is also a founding member of the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic as well as the Brain-Body Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital. In addition, he is also the journal editor of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health. His research focuses on the psychopathology of affective disorders and mental disorders related to reproductive cyclicity in women.