Biography:

 

Dr. Suze Berkhout is a Clinician Investigator at UHN and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Toronto, holding a combined MD/PhD from the University of British Columbia. She is a Scholar with The Wilson Centre and cross appointed with University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST). Dr. Berkhout’s program of research in critical health humanities and feminist science and technology studies (STS) seeks to understand the social, cultural, and ethical significance of day-to-day medical practices and emerging technologies, with gender as a central factor within these intersections. She considers the place of diagnosis, intervention, and medical technologies in shaping illness experiences, engagement with care interventions, and the formation of biomedical knowledge. Dr. Berkhout advances the understanding and mobilization of knowledge in women’s health through an analytic lens and research approach that thinks across clinical domains, leading projects in solid organ transplantation, treatment refractory mental health conditions, and collaborating on research in traumatic brain injury and stroke.