Meet our team.
Emytis Tavakoli, MD
Clinical Fellow
Dr. Emytis Tavakoli, a board-certified psychiatrist, earned her psychiatry specialty degree from the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. She has contributed to several clinical trials addressing the optimization of psychotropic treatment for various psychiatric disorders and the application of measurement-based care in clinical settings. During her tenure as a clinician, educator, and researcher at the Iranian National Centre for Addiction Studies in Tehran, Iran, and Shariati Hospital in Karaj, Iran, between 2015 and 2019, she focused on improving treatment methods for addiction disorders. After relocating to Canada, she worked as a research fellow at the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in 2020, focusing on the pharmacological treatment of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Currently, as a Clinical Fellow at the Pharmacogenetics Research Clinic at CAMH, Dr. Tavakoli specializes in pharmacotherapeutic interventions for mood and anxiety disorders, as well as pharmacogenetics. Her research aims to identify genetic factors predicting responses to psychotropic medications, particularly antidepressants, to optimize pharmacological treatments.
