Dr. Gwyneth Zai

Dr. Gwyneth Zai is the Service Lead of the OCD and Anxiety Disorders Services and a Clinician Scientist in the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division and the Department of Molecular Science at CAMH. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and an affiliated Visiting Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. She completed her medical training, psychiatry residency, and PhD at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include using multi-modal approaches — genetics, epigenetics, pharmacogenomics, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience — to develop treatment supports for depressive, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. A major focus of her current research includes the identification of predictive biomarkers underlying treatment response and expression of key symptoms of these illnesses.