Suze Berkhout (She/Her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a Clinician-Investigator in the University Health Network’s Centre for Mental Health based out of Toronto General Hospital (TGH). She is cross-appointed as affiliate faculty with the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, and is a researcher with the Wilson Centre and The Institute for Education Research (TIER) based out of UHN. Suze completed a combined MD/PhD at the University of British Columbia, supported by CIHR and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR). She has expertise in feminist philosophy and qualitative research methodologies that draw on ethnographic and narrative frames. In her most recent work, this includes working with visual and material practices to explore unspoken aspects of lived experience in medical and mental health care. Her research and scholarly activity come together under two umbrellas: (1) exploring how knowledge practices in biomedicine intersect with social identities and agency in different clinical field shaping lived experience and the outcomes of medical practices themselves; (2) innovating qualitative methodologies to address research questions at the intersection of ontology and epistemology. Dr. Berkhout has published numerous peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews in a range of journals, including JAMA Open; the Canadian Medical Association Journal; BMJ Medical Humanities; Disability Studies Quarterly; Social Theory and Practice; she has co-edited a special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; and two special issues of Ars Medica, a literary arts and health humanities journal. Dr. Berkhout supervises psychiatry residency trainees in research methods and sits on PhD committees for graduate students in STS, Medical Anthropology, Disability Studies and Public Health. As a PI, Berkhout has received funding from the New Frontiers Research Fund (NFRF), SSHRC and CDTRP for research bridging transplant medicine and feminist/crip technoscience; she has received University of Toronto funding for a genealogical exploration of the concept of treatment resistance in mental health; and has utilized departmental funding through a humanities education award to develop arts-based pedagogical tools for introducing critical theories to health professions students. She is currently co-investigator and co-principal investigator on SSHRC Insight Grants, CIHR Team Grants, and CDTRP innovation funds in a diverse range of areas of scholarship: Placebo/Nocebo Studies; Situated Neurology; Arts-Based Knowledge Mobilization in Transplantation. Dr. Berkhout has received departmental and faculty awards for her research and scholarly activities, including the Chisholm Memorial Fellowship and Mary Seeman Award for Medical Humanities.