Yona Lunsky, Ph.D., C.Psych, joins us to discuss creating space for patient partners in research, barriers to care for individuals with developmental disabilities, her personal connection to her work, and so much more!

Dr. Lunsky is the Director of the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, and the Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) Program at CAMH. She is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Scientist at Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and has focused her research on the mental health needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. Dr. Lunsky is the principal investigator of several studies examining clinical and systems issues related to health services. She is also involved in a number of projects focused on improving primary, emergency and mental health care. In more recent years she has become more involved in a number of partnership projects bringing together both researchers and clinicians with people with disabilities and their families to design innovative approaches to improving health care.

Follow Dr. Yona Lunsky on Twitter. Find out more about the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, the Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) and other resources mentioned in the full show notes!

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