Shelley McLain, PhD, a researcher, psychologist and educator, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Ontario Canada; and head of the Personality Disorder Treatment, Research and Capacity Building for the Clinical Assessment and Triage Service and Women’s Programs at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario Canada. She is also the head of the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. McClain is a Member, DBT Individual and Group Certification, DBT Board of Certification and Accreditation (Seattle, Washington); and was an advisory board member of the International DBT Strategic Planning Research Committee at the University of Washington and Affiliate Board Member at the Linehan Institute, also in Seattle. Dr. McLain has won the coveted Ian Silver Award for Excellence in Psychiatry Continuing Professional and Practice Development, and the Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Course Coordination in relation to her training in DBT.
Carmen Wiebe, MD, is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she is the course coordinator and presenter in the DBT certificate program. She has won the coveted Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Course Coordination and the Ivan Silver Award for Excellence in Continuing Mental Health Education for her work in the DBT Certificate Program. She won the Joint CPA-COPCE Award for the Most Outstanding Continuing Education Activity in Psychiatry (academic) in Canada for her course, “Using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Strategies in Your Practice”, presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Weibe is also a staff psychiatrist at the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, also in Toronto where she coordinates Dialectical Behavior Therapy education for the postgraduate program.