Mark Sinyor
Dr. Mark Sinyor is a Psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research mainly focuses on population-level strategies for suicide prevention with an emphasis on how media messaging impacts suicide. Dr. Sinyor is the International Association for Suicide Prevention’s “Partnerships for Life” lead for the Americas. He is lead author of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA) guidelines on responsible media reporting about suicide. He has also created a free mental health literacy curriculum that teaches middle schoolers coping skills and distress managements while reading “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” in English language class.