Dr. Matt Chow is Chief Mental Health Officer for TELUS Health. He is a child and youth psychiatrist and past President of Doctors of BC, the association that supports the 16,000+ physicians, residents, and medical students in British Columbia.

The pandemic still casts its long shadow over mental health and mental healthcare. In this brave conversation with Dr. Diane, they talk about the pandemic’s impact on children and youth, the urgent need to tackle burnout in healthcare, and the importance of vision and leadership.

This conversation is about hope and the kind of leadership we need to inspire meaningful change in mental healthcare.

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Scott Elliott is the Executive Director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, an internationally renowned Centre whose mission is to provide care and support for individuals with HIV/AIDS.

The center’s holistic approach, which prioritizes the individual, autonomy, respect, and empowerment, is a powerful model, with a lot that we can take to inspire innovative thinking to improve mental healthcare.

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Canada’s first Chief Mental Health Officer shares his personal experience with clinical depression, how his role at KPMG changed, and how employers are stepping up.

This conversation really gets to the heart of the power of self-stigma and how it can hold us back from seeking the help we need.

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