Heat Resilience in Community Psychiatry: How can we prevent heat related illness in people with Severe & Persistent Mental Illness?
Assertive Community Treatment Teams (ACTT), Flexible ACT (FACT), and Intensive Case Management (ICM) are multidisciplinary teams that provide treatment and support services to individuals diagnosed with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) who have had multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. This […]
Dr. Samantha Green is a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and at Inner City Health Associates. She is the president-elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (currently on leave). She is the co-director of Temerty Medicine’s Taking Action on Planetary Health certificate program, and co-chair of the CanMEDS 2025 planetary health committee.
Samantha has collaborated with CASCADES on the climate conscious inhaler prescribing primary care playbook and course, and she is currently engaged in an academic project that aims to educate case managers and psychiatrists on the risks of extreme heat for people living with schizophrenia.