Portrait photo of Daniel Okoro

Dr Daniel Okoro

MB.BS, LMCC, DPM, FRCPC, DABPN, FAPA

Positions

Clinical Assistant Professor

Cumming School of Medicine

Associate Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute

Associate Member

Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education

Contact information

Research

Areas of Research

Indigenous mental health
Military psychiatry
Suicides
Cultural psychiatry
Race and Professionalism in medical practice
Activities

I am participating in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 2020: Professionalism and accountability redefined: Theorizing anti-racism from stakeholder engagement (PARTAKE) study. We acknowledge the need to address racism in Medicine and to support measures aimed at redressing racial inequities. One potent weapon in the armamentarium is making a change to the medical education curriculum through the redefinition of Professionalism.

My research focus is on the use of qualitative measures studying the epistemology and phenomenology of some of the concerns of our various sociocultural groups.

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Publications

  • The Community Treatment Order (CTO)-An Altruistic Overreach in Patient Care in Psychiatry. Okoro DC. Can J Psychiatry. (2019)
  • Post traumatic Stress Disorder: The Misappropriation of Military Suicide Causation and Medication Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Okoro DC. Can J Psychiatry. (2015)
  • Cannabis-induced psychosis among Aboriginal People in the Northwest Territories. Okoro D. Can J Psychiatry. (2007)
  • Racism and mental disorders. Okoro DC. Psychiatr Serv. (2005)
  • Psychiatric Phenomenology from first principles for medical students, psychiatric residents, and practitioners. Daniel Chinedu Okoro. Tellwell. (2022)
  • Random Musings in Psychiatry; Study AIDS for Board Examination for Residents and Practitioners. Daniel Chinedu Okoro. Iuniverse. (2008)