Michael Mak

Michael Mak is a sleep medicine specialist and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He also provides cultural mental health care for the Hong Fook Mental Health Association. Dr. Mak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, an Adjunct Research Professor at Western University, and Adjunct Professor at McMaster University. His academic interests include medical education, simulation as a teaching modality in Psychiatry, management of insomnia and the study of sleep disorders in psychiatric patients. He is currently the Site Director for Undergraduate Medical Education at CAMH and the PGY5/Transition to Practice coordinator for the postgraduate Psychiatry training program at the University of Toronto. He serves on the Education Committees of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He serves on the Emerging Technologies Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association in 2022. Dr. Mak was elected Vice President, Clinical of the Canadian Sleep Society in 2023. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in 2024 and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2026. He is a standing member of the Royal College AFC Committee in Sleep Disorder Medicine. Dr. Mak is the President for the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Honours and Awards

2025-2026: Best Elective (Staff) Supervisor, CAMH Postgraduate Medication Education

2025-2026: MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

2024-2025: Paul E. Garfinkel Award for Best Fellowship Supervision

2022-2023: Best Elective Supervisor – CAMH Undergraduate Medical Education

2021-2022: Abraham Miller Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

2021-2022: Best Staff Teacher – CAMH Undergraduate Medical Education

2021-2022: The Wightman-Berris Academy – Individual Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Education

2021-2022: MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence for the 2021-22 Academic Year award by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

Research Synopsis

Dr. Mak’s research interests include: quality improvement and epidemiology in medical psychiatry; management of insomnia; psychiatric manifestations of sleep disorders; and novel usage of technology in the management of psychiatric and medical disorders.

Recent Publications

For recent publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Rwc60DUAAAAJ&hl=en\

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Western University

Grants

2022 – present: Primary Investigator: What do New Practitioners Need from Continuing Professional Development (CPD): A Case Study of Transition to Practice and Early Career Psychiatrists. PI: Mak M. Collaborators: Ho, Certina; Sarmiento, Tracy; Esplen, Mary Jane; Sockalingam, Sanjeev. 5000 CAD.

2017 – 2019 Primary Investigator: Tryptophan as treatment for Insomnia in the Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder Populations. PI: Mak M. Collaborators: Chitpin J, Kwiatkowski D, Nicolson R. 3500 CAD.

2016 – 2019 Co-Primary Investigator: Chronic Disease Management Initiative. PIs: Links PS, Mak M. Collaborators: Calvin J, Wetmore S, Eynan R, Licskai C, Valiquet S, Sibbald S. 166000 CAD.

2016 – 2019 Primary Investigator: Diagnostic Accuracy in an Academic Consultation-Liaison Service. PI: Mak M. Collaborators: Charbonneau J, King R, Ulch S, Maclean M, Barr J, Garcia C. 7500 CAD.